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2024-07-02 Government Corruption

House Judiciary sues Garland for Biden audio that Hur says shows him as 'elderly man with a poor memory'

[FoxNews] Lawsuit comes amid chaos in the Democratic Party as leaders consider whether President Biden should continue with his re-election campaign

The House Judiciary Committee is suing Attorney General Merrick Garland to obtain recordings of President Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur.

The committee, as part of the lawsuit filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, stressed the importance of the "verbal and nonverbal context" of Biden's answers that could be provided by the audio recordings – especially considering that Hur opted against charging Biden after the interview, in part, because he was viewed as "a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."

The lawsuit comes amid chaos in the Democratic Party as leaders consider whether Biden should continue with his re-election campaign after the president’s widely panned debate performance last week.

The committee, in its lawsuit, says the president’s invocation of executive privilege over the materials "lacks any merit," and it asks the court to overrule that assertion of privilege.

"This dispute is about a frivolous assertion of executive privilege," the lawsuit states.

As part of the House impeachment inquiry against the president, the committee issued a subpoena to Garland to obtain records related to Hur’s investigation of Biden’s alleged mishandling of classified records. The committee sought materials related to Hur’s interviews with Biden and Mark Zwonitzer, the ghostwriter of Biden’s 2017 memoir.

The Justice Department has provided the committee with transcripts of those interviews, but Garland "has refused to produce the audio recordings of the Special Counsel’s interviews with President Biden and Mr. Zwonitzer."

"Instead, Attorney General Garland asked that President Biden assert executive privilege over those recordings, and President Biden complied with that request," the lawsuit states.

The committee argues that audio recordings "are better evidence than transcripts of what happened during the Special Counsel’s interviews with President Biden and Mr. Zwonitzer."

"For example, they contain verbal and nonverbal context that is missing from a cold transcript," the committee states. "That verbal and nonverbal context is quite important here because the Special Counsel relied on the way that President Biden presented himself during their interview – ‘as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory’ – when ultimately recommending that President Biden should not be prosecuted for unlawfully retaining and disclosing classified information."

Posted by Skidmark 2024-07-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 He might as well give it up and save himself, the entire world, including the delusional left, know it to be true.

Posted by 49 Pan 2024-07-02 01:19|| 2024-07-02 01:19|| Front Page Top

#2 There is a matter of principle, but it looks like there can't be much to reveal the public didn't see debate night.

Posted by Bobby 2024-07-02 07:49|| 2024-07-02 07:49|| Front Page Top

#3 but it looks like there can't be much to reveal

Other than his 7 day 'preparation'.
I expect burn out will commence and there will be no recovery as he shambles off in his sleep.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-07-02 07:52|| 2024-07-02 07:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Key Democrat donors threaten to pull plug if Biden doesn't resign, as furious party insiders reveal 'worst fears' about ailing president have now been confirmed: 'How stupid do they think we are?'

Posted by Skidmark 2024-07-02 07:54|| 2024-07-02 07:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Imagine people who will throw money at anything refusing to throw money.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-07-02 08:00|| 2024-07-02 08:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh come on. The party apparatchiks and big donors know he's in this condition and has been. What they're upset about is that too many got to see that their deceitful confidence game exposed. Plato's allegory of the shadows on the cave wall is played out 2500 years later. Fundamental human behavior hasn't changed.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-07-02 08:05|| 2024-07-02 08:05|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ Cogent analysis

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-07-02 08:12|| 2024-07-02 08:12|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ Excellent analysis indeed.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-07-02 08:22|| 2024-07-02 08:22|| Front Page Top

#9 Ronald Reagan - Tear down this wall.

Joe Biden - End of quote.

At least he has learned to properly acknowledge sourced material.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-07-02 10:26|| 2024-07-02 10:26|| Front Page Top

#10 How stupid do they think we are?

Pretty damn stupid.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-07-02 11:10|| 2024-07-02 11:10|| Front Page Top

#11 re#4 "How stupid?"

Very incredibly dumb, blind, idiotically.

Posted by alanc 2024-07-02 14:22|| 2024-07-02 14:22|| Front Page Top

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