Congress Waits as Barr Blacks Out Parts of Mueller Report

Investigators for the special counsel spent months trying to get answers from President Trump: what he knew about a meeting between senior campaign aides and Russians; about changes to the Republican Party platform making it more Russia-friendly; about his associates’ outreach to WikiLeaks as it prepared to publish Democratic emails stolen by Russian hackers.

After months of resistance, his lawyers finally turned over written answers in November to those questions and others. But the public has not seen them.

Now, the question of whether they become part of the available...