Responding to a freedom of information lawsuit, the Department of Justice says it will release copies of the witness statements used to assemble Robert Mueller's special counsel report.

Mueller spent two years looking into Democratic claims that the Trump 2016 campaign colluded with Russia and found no evidence of collusion.

He stated in his 448-page report to the attorney general that he could not "exonerate" the president regarding obstruction of justice, even though he and the attorney general had no such authority.

Now, Justice Department lawyers say the estimated 44,000 pages of witness interviews will be released at a pace of 500 pages each month in response to a freedom of information lawsuit by CNN and BuzzFeed, the Daily Caller reported.

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There are 800 witness interview transcripts, they said.

Buzzfeed and CNN filed the lawsuit to access the documents, which provide

U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said he wasn't pleased with the release schedule, but DOJ lawyers said they will need to go over the statements line by line to clear them.

Mueller's report has since been criticized for being incomplete.

For example, he left out a key piece of evidence about Ukrainian businessman Konstantin Kilimnik, who worked for Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

John Solomon reported for the Hill that while Mueller reported that Kilimnik had many ties to Russian intelligence, he failed to include the fact that Kilimnik also was a "sensitive" intelligence source for the U.S. State Department who had informed on Ukrainian and Russian matters for many years.

"Game-changer," said the Twitter news aggregator Twitchy.

"A State Dept. informant. Now, why would Mueller have left THIS out?" Twitchy asked. "The whole thing is beginning to look like one big sham. Pulled on the American people."

The Washington Examiner reported former Trump lawyer John Dowd predicted multiple instances of Mueller misleading the public in his report will be revealed.