Biden Moves to Block House GOP From Getting
Interview Tapes With Special Counsel
Epoch Times,
by
Jackson Richman
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
5/16/2024 11:39:21 AM
WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden has asserted executive privilege over the tapes of his two-day interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur in his probe of the president’s alleged mishandling of classified information.
The tapes are at the center of a dispute between House Republicans and Attorney General Merrick Garland, who has defied a subpoena for them and today faces contempt proceedings.
Mr. Garland, in a May 15 letter to the president, said that the “committee’s needs are plainly insufficient to outweigh the deleterious effects that the production of the recordings would have on the integrity and effectiveness of similar law enforcement investigations in the future.”
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
thekidsmom66 5/16/2024 11:54:47 AM (No. 1719045)
Why, isn't this the very kind of thing the Dems assured us Trump would do? Just like he was going to pardon himself and his children (as I'm certain the Veg in Chief will do). Once again, they project.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 5/16/2024 11:57:19 AM (No. 1719047)
Attorney General Merrick "Gestapo" Garland
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/16/2024 11:58:16 AM (No. 1719048)
It must be the way he sounds. The full transcripts had been released,
Here in pdf:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/full-text-robert-hur-biden-classified-documents-interview-pdf-rcna142956
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
rytwng 5/16/2024 12:05:18 PM (No. 1719052)
They will prove he's an idiot.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Lazyman 5/16/2024 12:07:52 PM (No. 1719054)
They want the originals because they know this is not an accurate transcript.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/16/2024 12:12:13 PM (No. 1719060)
Just started reading transript. He alternates between smartass and confused/batty. And that's only in the first few pages. He also repeats the lie that he taught at Penn. His professorship was honorary, as I recall. His mouth may be his worst enemy...
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
thekidsmom66 5/16/2024 12:12:27 PM (No. 1719062)
I remember reading something about him making noises like a car or train or something. And of course, there were no doubt lots of gaps of silence, mumbling, and bumbling, all of which are likely not present in the transcript previously released for public consumption.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Quigley 5/16/2024 12:23:36 PM (No. 1719071)
Further to #3, the privilege would seem to have been waived by the release of the written transcript.
Which gives #5’s point lots of credibility.
I don’t think he has a privilege since it’s been waived.
I bet the audio reveals him to be subhuman.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
billa57 5/16/2024 12:31:47 PM (No. 1719076)
Every American citizen has a right to know whether their President is competent or not. All of these types of interviews should be public record.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
thekidsmom66 5/16/2024 12:31:52 PM (No. 1719077)
I have to say, just reading part of what's on the NBC site, saying Hur handled him with kids gloves is an understatement. Sheesh. At least what I was reading, it was almost like, "so, of course, knowing you, wonderful Joes Biden, wouldn't want to ever do anything wrong, and knowing your staff handled these items, can you explain how these documents ended up where they did?' It wasn't QUITE that obsequious, but close. Maybe that tone changed further in.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Hazymac 5/16/2024 12:33:22 PM (No. 1719078)
Want to see some world class projection? Witness this image on the wall from FJB's legal counsel. FTA: “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. Demanding such sensitive and constitutionally-protected law enforcement materials from the Executive Branch because you want to manipulate them for potential political gain is inappropriate,” wrote Ed Siskel, President Biden’s counsel ....
Good gawsh. Chop them up? As is well known, the White House staff would never even consider editing a raw video of Josef Stolen (h/t Ida Lou Pino) before releasing it. They want the popular, avuncular FJB to shine forth in his behind the scenes customary brilliance so we can all know how together he is in private. If he occasionally stumbles in public, we must be charitable with him because this great man cares so effing much. So goldangblammit fudging blanking blivet much that it's distracting to him, like the smell of Clairol Herbal Essence in the hair of a little girl who's just out from under the hairnet. Lay off Brittney and lay off Brandon! He works so hard for you and me. He's a good Catholic, so devout that he crossed himself at an abortion rally in Tampa last week. God is so with Brandon. (If He's not, Brandon might be in some deep spiritual trouble of the great white throne judgment type.)
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 5/16/2024 12:35:10 PM (No. 1719079)
This event is always called an "interview." Was Biden under oath?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
avital2 5/16/2024 12:43:44 PM (No. 1719085)
i wonder if the transcripts were cleaned up - translating Joe's mumbling stumbling sidetrips into dementia-land - like the Woke House cleans up transcripts of his speeches. otherwise, what are they hiding?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
halfnorsk 5/16/2024 12:47:17 PM (No. 1719089)
He was being questioned about things that happened before he became president. How can "executive privilege" be relevant?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
MickTurn 5/16/2024 4:18:26 PM (No. 1719204)
Gestapo Garland is using way too many words to describe a LIE!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
homefry 5/16/2024 6:49:17 PM (No. 1719250)
Is that the one where he said that quid pro joe was a confused old man and should not be prosecuted because of it?
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