The Mueller Report is a fundamentally conservative document produced by a fundamentally unobjectionable conservative high ranking career Republican Justice Department/FBI functionary named, not coincidentally, Robert Mueller.
There is enormous restraint in the ambit of Mueller's investigation, tracks leading down avenues some of which he notes but does not pursue, matters which by the generous terms of his remit would be within his right to examine, but nevertheless leaving him with two sore points, the nature and extent of Russian encroachment in the conduct of the 2016 presidential election, and the multitudinous efforts of the President of the United States to undermine that investigation, once begun.
He scrupulously draws within the lines he has created for himself, and comes up with a handful of times the president has quite evidently committed obstruction of justice.
Playing by what he notes are the established rules of the Justice Department, Mueller does not formally indict the President for criminality. He simply points the way.
The currently released redacted version of The Special Counsel's Report, the document itself, violates established Department of Justice requirements as set out by Section 508 in particular, requiring the Department to publish documents in formats which employ various electronic technologies that aid in their accessibility, search functions and the like, are unavailable in the document as released by William Barr's Department of Justice, which is instead made up of a set of rude snapshots of what were once pages in a PDF, a format which fully supports all those assistive requirements of Section 508.
Removing those requirements in the version offered to Congress and the public was the responsibility of Barr and presumably Rosenstein as they worked to redact what they could of Mueller's work with the tools they had at hand.
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