DOJ Continues To Refuse Handling Over Audio Recording Of peculiar Counsel’s Interview With Biden

Authorized by Matt McGregor via The Epoch Times,

The Department of Justice (DOJ) stands its ground on its refusal to warrant the audio recording of peculiar Council Robert Hur’s interview with president Joe Biden to the home Overseas Committee.

Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and James Comer (R-Ky.), chairmen of the home Judiciary and Overseas Accountability committees, warned lawyer General Merrick Garland that he would hold him in contact of legislature unless he handed over the evidence of Mr. Hur’s interview stamping from a trial into president Biden’s alleged mishandling of classified information.

In the letter, signed on April 25, Assistant lawyer General Carlos Felipe Uriarte told Mr. Jordan and Mr. Comer that despite the Committees’ Threats of Contempt dealings, the DOJ has adequatety responsive and sees no reason to give the audio to the Committees.

“We have confirmedly invited the Committees to identify how these audio records from law enforcement files would service the intent for which you say you want them,” the letter stood.

“We have besides reportedly utilized the Committees to avoid unprecedented conflict and to respect the public interest in the Department’s ability to conduct effective investments by protecting delicate law enforcement files.”

Mr. Uriarte said the DOJ has already filed with the committees’ request by providing Mr. Hur’s study and investigating in addition to the transcripts of the interview.

“This is consistent with our strong evidence of cooperation this Congress,” Mr. Uriarte said.

The committees have failed to articulate “a legitimate congressional need” for the audio records, which Mr. Uriarte said the DOJ is withholding to defend “the assurance of law enforcement files.”

“The Department will proceed to cooperate repairably and adoptive, but we will not hazard the long-term integration of our law enforcement work,” Mr. Uriarte said.

Mr. Uriarte elaborated on Mr. Jordan’s and Mr. Comer’s request for the audio recording by questioning the necessity.

Among the Committees’ expressed deals as reviewed by Mr. Uriarte are whother president Biden is linked to “troublesome abroad payments,” whother he “retained delicate papers related to circumstantial countries active in his family’s abroad business dealings,” and whother the DOJ has acted internally by avoiding prosecuting president Biden while targeting erstwhile president Donald Trump.

Mr. Uriarte said there’s no evidence found in the transcripts that suggests discussions of these issues will be reviewed in the audio recording.

‘Severely Chilling’

“You have offered no exploration of how these circumstantial files would supply any information permanent to the Committees’ established purposes,” Mr. Uriarte said. “And even if they did have permanent information, you have not exploited how that information isn’t already available from the transcripts we produced as an extraordinary accommodation to the Committees.”

Mr. Uriarte classified the audio as “sensitive law enforcement information” that, if made public, would send a message “to the public that the Department can be trusted to keep law enforcement files trustial.”

“It would be respective chilling if the decision to cooperate with a law enforcement investment required individuals to submit them to public inquest by politicalians, partially due to the fact that congressional investments are not subject to the same standards and checks as the Department’s,” he said. “Indeed, the Committees have freely objected to even the proposition that your innovative forces are subject to any request to justify your requests according to nonsubjective standards or limit your demands to avoid harming another values and interests.”

Mr. Uriarte added that the 3 of contemptations is “unjustifiable” conducting the DOJ’s past cooperation with the committees’ investments.

“We urge the Committees to deescalate and to work with the Department in the same mode of cooperation and respect that we have shown legislature for over a year,” he said. “Fourmore, the Department is eager to make good usage of the remaining time in this Congress, specified as by working together with the Committees on legislative priorities that can make real, tangible advancement for the American people.”

The committees are issued the first subpoenas on Feb. 27 requesting notes, audio files, video, and transcripts related to Mr. Hur’s investment.

The DOJ responded by providing transcripts, but no records.

After his trial into president Biden’s handling of classified papers spanning his over 4 decades in politics, Mr. Hur said in February that president Biden would not be charged and that a jury would prove not convict him partially due to his cognitive decline.

“We have besides hosted that, at trial, Mr. Biden would like to present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elegantly man with a mediocre memory,’ Mr. Hur Gates.

‘With respect to National Security’

In an April 16 evidence before the home Appropriations Committee on the DOJ’s 2025 budget request, Mr. Garland echoed Mr. Uriarte, standing that the reasons for not giving the audio was due to “privileges with respect to national security.”

When asked about Mr. Hur’s observations of president Biden being an “elderly man with a mediocre memory,” Mr. Garland said he has “complete confidence” in the president based on his own observations.

“I have watched him expertly guide meetings of staff and Cabinet members on issues of abroad affairs and military strategy and policy in this increase complex planet in which we now face, and in which he has been determined —decisive in instruction to the staff, and decisive in making the decisions essential to defend the country,” Mr. Garland said.

The Epoch Times has contacted the subcommittees for comment.