In a lawsuit compelling the Justice Department (DOJ) to release records from Special Counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents, the DOJ disclosed the existence of 117 pages of transcripts from Biden’s discussions with his ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer.
This revelation, highlighted by the Oversight Project, raises concerns about Biden’s competency, as the transcripts reportedly informed Hur’s conclusions regarding Biden’s memory.
“There do exist written transcripts of President Biden’s interviews with his ghostwriter where they discuss classified material, and that Special Counsel Hur relied upon those written transcripts in coming to his conclusions [that Biden was a ‘well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory’],” Oversight Project counsel Kyle Brosnan said.
🚨 BIDEN CLAIM OVER "TAPES" EVISCERATED 🚨
Garland tried to protect the tapes with Executive Privilege
Garland has cited former AG Mukasey ('07-'09) as his top precedent
We have big surprise for him
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“The discovery of those materials has been the subject of a lot of back-and-forth between us and the Justice Department about how we want to proceed,” Brosnan added.
“We’re trying to figure out how that discovery impacts the case and kind of what the next steps are there.”
The DOJ initially claimed no verbatim transcripts existed but later confirmed the presence of these documents after inquiries from the Oversight Project.
Ongoing negotiations are focused on how to manage the extensive recorded material between Biden and Zwonitzer.
“There’s over 70 hours of tapes between Biden and Zwonitzer. So, that’s obviously a lot of material that’s going to take the Justice Department a long time to process,” Brosnan said.
Additionally, former Attorney General Michael Mukasey criticized the Biden administration’s use of executive privilege in this case, suggesting that its claims are flawed and lack sufficient justification.
“I believe the assertion of executive privilege made here goes well beyond the limits of any prior assertion and is not supported by the 2008 executive privilege letter,” Mukasey said.
“The reasons given for invoking this privilege are entirely unconvincing,” he added.
