AG Merrick Garland says it would’ve been ‘absurd’ to strip special counsel’s report of references to Biden’s faulty memory
Former US Attorney General Michael Mukasey has knocked current AG Merrick Garland for making a “flawed privilege assertion” to withhold audio recordings from Congress of President Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur.
CNN abruptly takes Trump spokeswoman off the air mid-interview as network is set to host first presidential debate Garland’s fears over the audio recordings potentially discouraging witness cooperation in the future was also mentioned in Mukasey’s 2008 letter — but only in the context of probes “involving official White House actions,” not private ones.Moreover, Mukasey wrote, Biden already “made the political decision to release the transcript” of his interview, voiding any “expectation of confidentiality.
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