Random House announced Monday that Weissmann’s book, titled “Where the Law Ends: Within Mueller’s Investigation,” will be published on September 29.
London King, a spokesman for Penguin Random House, said the Justice Department has signed off on publishing the manuscript.
“This is the story of our investigation into how Russia attacked our democracy and how those who tolerated and ignored that attack undermined our ability to discover the truth,” Weissmann said in a statement. “My duty as a prosecutor was to follow the facts as they led, using all available tools and undeterred by the attack by the President’s sole powers to undermine our work.”
The Justice Department did not respond Monday to questions about the book’s pre-publication review.
Weissmann says in his book that he also plans to acknowledge his team’s mistakes. “We could have done more,” his statement said Monday.
During the investigation, Weissmann led the prosecution of former Ukrainian lobbyists and campaign leaders for Trump, Paul Manafort and Rick Gates. Weissmann secured Gates and Manafort’s convictions and cooperation, but Manafort lied to the grand jury and Mueller’s team, leaving important questions unanswered as to why he shared the numbers from the US polls with a Russian intelligence-related associate who works. in Eastern Europe.
Mueller’s investigation did not charge any Americans with conspiracy in Russia’s attempts to help Trump in 2016. But he also failed to obtain all the evidence he was looking for, such as what Manafort knew or deleted text messages among key Trump officials.
Mueller also did not subpoena Trump for testimony, but instead accepted written responses that raised even more questions for Mueller’s team. After documenting several episodes in which Trump attempted to end the investigation prematurely, Mueller refused to decide whether to charge him with obstruction of justice. Barr and other Justice Department leaders decided not to indict the President.
Random House said Weissmann writes in his book about the debate within the Mueller team on the subpoena, among other things. The editor says the book also describes Trump and Barr’s efforts to manipulate the investigation to help the president politically.
“For the first time, Weissmann details the debilitating effects President Trump had on the investigation through his pardons and his constant threats to close the investigation and fire Mueller himself, who left the team running against the clock and fighting with one hand. tied behind my back, “read a description of the book.
The book’s announcement follows a weekend in which Weissmann made some of his most critical statements about the President and in defense of the Mueller’s team on Twitter.
Mueller’s investigation widely documented Stone’s efforts to reach WikiLeaks about stolen Democratic emails they published in 2016 and his communications with the Trump campaign. Prosecutors at Stone’s trial argued that Stone prevented Congress from knowing the truth about 2016 to protect the President.
Weissmann also wrote on Twitter that a future administration attorney general could reinstate the charges against former national security adviser Michael Flynn, whose guilty plea also Mueller said.
Weissmann is now a private practice attorney, professor of law at New York University and a contributor to MSNBC.
CNN’s Evan Pérez contributed to this story.
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