White House Blocks GOP Request For Audio Of Biden's Special Counsel Interviews
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Republicans only want recordings of Biden's special counsel interviews "to chop them up, distort them, and use them for partisan political purposes," the White House said.
WASHINGTON ― President Joe Biden on Thursday blocked Republicans’ request for audio recordings of his interviews with former special counsel Robert Hur.
In a letter to the Republicans leading an impeachment inquiry against Biden, White House counsel Edward Siskel said the president had asserted executive privilege over the recordings, arguing Republicans don’t need the audio because they already have a full transcript of the interviews.
“The absence of a legitimate need for the audio recordings lays bare your likely goal ― to chop them up, distort them, and use them for partisan political purposes,” Siskel wrote to House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Judiciary chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).
Hur declined to prosecute Biden for retaining classified documents from his time as vice president partly because Biden seemed forgetful during the interviews, leading Hur to write in his final report that the president would come off to a jury “as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
Republicans have been chasing unrelated corruption allegations against Biden in a formal impeachment inquiry since last year, but haven’t turned up credible evidence of wrongdoing by the president. Instead of impeachment articles, they seem to have settled on contempt proceedings against U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland for refusing to hand over the Hur audio.
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