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WASHINGTON, April 18-- The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday released a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigative report on the Russia probe. The 448-page report is the culmination of Mueller's nearly two-year inquiry into whether Donald Trump's campaign conspired with the Russian government during the 2016 U.S. presidential election and whether the president had obstructed justice. The release came nearly a month after Attorney General William Barr penned a four-page summary of the report's "principal conclusions," which stated there was no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow. According to the redacted report, Mueller said his team was unable to clear Trump on obstruction. "The evidence we obtained about the President's actions and intent presents difficult issues that prevent us from conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred," the report said. "Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him," it added. Barr, who held a press conference at the Justice Department shortly before the report's public release, said Mueller did not make a "traditional prosecutorial judgement" regarding allegations that Trump had obstructed justice. Instead, the special counsel recounts in his report 10 episodes involving the president and "discusses potential legal theories for connecting these actions to elements of an obstruction offense," according to Barr. | 
