The department, in a court filing late Friday night, warned that releasing the audio could lead to it being “improperly altered.”
It's the latest step in a multi-pronged legal battle aimed at forcing the Justice Department to release the audio of President Joe Biden’s interview with former special counsel Robert Hur, pictured above. | Francis Chung/POLITICOThe Justice Department is seizing on an increasingly common fear as it fights to prevent the release of the audio of President Joe Biden’s interview with former special counsel Robert Hur: It could spawn deepfakes.
The Justice Department raising the possibility of Biden’s voice being manipulated comes amid growing concerns about the use of deepfakes in the political arena. But it was just one piece of a much larger argument the administration is deploying as it tries to squash multiple legal battles brought under the Freedom of Information Act that seek the recordings.
That’s done little to quell demands from outside conservative groups, media organizations and House Republicans that it be released. In addition to the pending lawsuits, two House committees, the Judiciary and Oversight committees, issued subpoenas for the audio earlier this year. The two committees advanced resolutions recommending Attorney General Merrick Garland be held in contempt, but it’sgiven their own slim majority and early skepticism from some within their own party.
Weinsheimer, in his affidavit, directly pushed back on that notion, writing that the transcript accurately matches the audio “except for minor instances” including the use of filler words or when words were repeated when spoken. Hur and FBI personnel who attended the Biden interview also told Weinsheimer, he noted in his affidavit, that they also believe the transcripts “accurately reflect” the audio aside from those minor instances.
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