The Biden regime really does not want the audio and video recordings from his interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur released to the public.
In a letter addressed to Jim Jordan and James Comer, Associate Attorney General Carlos Uriarte stated, “I write to inform you that the President has asserted executive privilege over the requested audio recordings and is making a protective assertion of privilege over any remaining materials responsive to the subpoenas that have not already been produced.”
Fox News reported:
The White House asserted executive privilege over audio and video recordings related to Special Counsel Robert Hur’s interviews with President Biden.
“I write to inform you that the President has asserted executive privilege over the requested audio recordings and is making a protective assertion of privilege over any remaining materials responsive to the subpoenas that have not already been produced,” Associate Attorney General Carlos Uriarte wrote in a letter Thursday to Reps. Jim Jordan and James Comer, chairmen of the Committee on the Judiciary and Committee on Oversight and Accountability, respectively.
“It is the longstanding position of the executive branch held by administrations of both parties that an official who asserts the President’s claim of executive privilege cannot be prosecuted for criminal contempt of Congress.”
Hur led the investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents following his departure as vice president under the Obama administration. Hur announced in February that he would not recommend criminal charges against Biden for possessing classified materials after his vice presidency, citing that Biden is “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
Contempt of Congress proceedings against Attorney General Merrick Garland have begun over his refusal to turn over the audio recordings from the Biden-Hur interview.
What are they so afraid of?
From the Epoch Times:
Two House committees will kick off contempt proceedings against Attorney General Merrick Garland on May 16 as he seeks to block them from obtaining special counsel Robert Hur’s recorded interviews with President Joe Biden.
Despite subpoenas compelling his cooperation, Mr. Garland has refused to provide House impeachment investigators with the recordings from Mr. Hur’s probe of the president’s handling of classified documents.
