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2024-05-16 Home Front: Politix

White House blocks release of Biden's special counsel interview audio

[NY Post] The White House has blocked the release of audio from President Joe Biden’s interview with a special counsel about his handling of classified documents, arguing Thursday that Republicans in Congress only wanted the recordings "to chop them up" and use them for political purposes.

The dispute over access to the recordings is at the center of a Republican effort to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress and more broadly to hinder the Democratic president’s reelection effort in the final months of the closely contested campaign.

"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," White House counsel Ed Siskel wrote in a scathing letter to House Republicans ahead of scheduled votes by two House committees to refer Garland to the Justice Department for the contempt charges over the department’s refusal to hand over the audio.

Posted by Frank G 2024-05-16 12:13|| || Front Page|| [11152 views ] Top
File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1 Breitbart: Joe Biden Asserts Executive Privilege to Keep Recordings of His Special Counsel Interview from Congress

Posted by Frank G 2024-05-16 12:23|| 2024-05-16 12:23|| Front Page Top

#2 It was an interview for an investigation into mishandling of classified documents. The interviewer wasn’t providing Biden with policy advice. Executive privilege doesn’t cover this. Are they stupid or do they think we are stupid? The answer is yes.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-05-16 13:41|| 2024-05-16 13:41|| Front Page Top

#3 'If there is nothing to hide, then why don't you release it?'
-Democrats when on the other side of the table

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-05-16 14:21|| 2024-05-16 14:21|| Front Page Top

#4 biden's lawyers may claim that there is some national security issue involved

although this is far fetched, it will be difficult to prove it not true without getting the actual tape

Posted by Lord Garth 2024-05-16 18:24|| 2024-05-16 18:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Every White House administration would do this. Big nothingburger

Posted by DarthVader 2024-05-16 23:56|| 2024-05-16 23:56|| Front Page Top

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