Biden has asserted executive privilege over audio recordings of his interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur.
, after Hur described the president “as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” and claimed Biden could not remember the date his son Beau died. The White House strongly condemned the characterization of the president’s mental faculties,Biden in relation to his retention of classified documents, a notable decision given that former President Donald Trump is currentlyregarding his own mishandling of classified documents.
On Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee planned to vote on advancing a resolution holding Garland in contempt of Congress for the Justice Department’s refusal to provide the audio, and the House Oversight Committee is expected to take a similar vote later this week. “Because of the President’s longstanding commitment to protecting the integrity, effectiveness, and independence of the Department of Justice and its law enforcement investigations, he has decided to assert executive privilege over the recordings,” White House counsel Ed Siskel wrote in a letter to the committee on Thursday.
“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,” Siskel added, citing the fact that the committees already have full access to the contents of the interview.
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