DOJ under pressure to produce audio of Biden interview with Hur
By
Ashley Oliver
May 1, 2024 1:23 pm
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The Department of Justice is facing mounting pressure from Congress and various organizations to provide audio recordings of President Joe Biden’s interview with the special counsel who investigated his handling of classified documents.
The DOJ has thus far resisted the requests from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), conservative groups such as Judicial Watch, and CNN, resulting in escalating legal pursuits, a tense impasse with Congress, and healthy doses of criticism.
“This is yet another brazen cover-up,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement Tuesday. “The Biden Justice Department’s political gambit in asserting Joe Biden’s privacy concerns in order to withhold audio of his criminal interviews with the special counsel really takes the cake.”
Judicial Watch, as well as the Heritage Foundation and CNN, have filed legal complaints in an attempt to enforce Freedom of Information Act requests for the recordings, which feature Biden interviewing with former special counsel Robert Hur about how the president handled classified material from when he was vice president and senator.
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