House Republicans Sue Garland for Tapes of Hur Interview With Biden

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The lawsuit also asks the court to require DOJ to hand over the audio of Mr. Hurโ€™s interview with President Bidenโ€™s ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer.

House Republicans filed a lawsuit on July 1 against Attorney General Merrick Garland, seeking to force the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release the audiotapes of special counsel Robert Hurโ€™s interview with President Joe Biden in his classified documents probe.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, also asks the court to require the DOJ to hand over the audio of Mr. Hurโ€™s interview with President Bidenโ€™s ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, who wrote two memoirs for him.

The legal action came after the House Republicans last month voted to hold Mr. Garland in contempt for failing to comply with a subpoena for tapes of Mr. Hurโ€™s interview with the president. The White House has asserted executive privilege.

The Justice Department declined to prosecute the attorney general, citing the departmentโ€™s โ€œlongstanding positionโ€ not to pursue criminal action against those who refuse to comply with subpoenas over which executive privilege has been claimed.

House Republicans sought material relating to Mr. Hurโ€™s investigation into the presidentโ€™s handling of classified material after the special counsel declined to recommend charges against President Biden.

Mr. Hurโ€™s report, in reaching its conclusion not to go forward with charges, cited an assessment that President Biden would present to a jury as a โ€œwell-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.โ€

The Justice Department has handed over transcripts and notes on the interview and argues that it is not necessary to provide the tapes. Doing so would deter future presidents from cooperating with similar investigations, the DOJ said.

House Republicans have insisted that they need the tapes to verify the transcriptโ€™s accuracy and to confirm that Mr. Hurโ€™s observation was justified.

The Justice Department and Democrats pushed back, contending that Republicans wanted the tapes solely for partisan reasons.

โ€œThe absence of a legitimate need for the audio recordings lays bare your likely goalโ€”to chop them up, distort them, and use them for partisan political purposes,โ€ Ed Siskel, President Bidenโ€™s counsel, wrote to House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) in a May letter.

Byย Jackson Richman

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