Open Source Mueller Report
Open Source Mueller Report is an enhanced edition of the Mueller Report.
Document Releases
Other Media
Features
- High fidelity text; not deteriorated by photocopy, redaction, and optical character recognition
- Supports full-text search
- Split document into Volume 1 and Volume 2
- PDF page numbering matches content page numbering
- Descriptive page headers with section name
- Working hyperlinks for table of contents and footnotes
- Redactions are represented explicitly in the source code
- Reduced file size (under 5 MB)
- Canonical URL with greater permanence than DOJ distribution
- Open source
Motivation
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released a redacted version of the Mueller Report on April 18, 2019.
The DOJ release suffers from technical limitations that interfere with public discussion about the Mueller investigation.
For example:
- The DOJ PDF cannot be searched
- Passages of text in the DOJ PDF cannot be highlighted or copied-and-pasted
- The table of contents in the DOJ PDF is not "clickable"
- The page numbers in the footer do not match the DOJ PDF page numbers
- The DOJ PDF appears to be derived from an optically-scanned copy and, consequently, there are visual artifacts in the PDF
- The DOJ PDF is a large file (137 MB)
Open Source Mueller Report is an effort to improve the Mueller Report by providing a "clean room" reimplementation of the document from source code.
Limitations
- Might include typos and other errors
- Page numbers do not correspond to original Mueller document or to DOJ release
- Redacted boxes are interrupted by spaces; they are not continuous
- Redacted boxes, which are based on lorem ipsum text, are suggestive of underlying word length and structure although no information about this is known
- Other cosmetic differences