The DOJ is facing mounting pressure from Congress and various organizations to provide audio recordings of Biden’s interview about classified documents.
The DOJ has thus far resisted the requests from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan , House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer , conservative groups such as Judicial Watch, and CNN, resulting in escalating legal pursuits, a tense impasse with Congress, and healthy doses of criticism.
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.
The DOJ did provide to Congress a redacted transcript of Hur’s interview with Biden, and the transcript confirmed the president did indeed have memory lapses at times. At other times, though, Biden was quick-witted and recalled information without a problem. “Obviously, the public’s right to know outweighs Joe Biden’s privacy in this widely public case,” Fitton said., a DOJ spokesman emphasized the department had already provided most of the material Jordan and Comer requested and that providing the audio could hinder future DOJ investigations by discouraging witnesses from talking to law enforcement.
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