by Daniel Chaitin, Daily Wire:
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has chosen to rebuff House Republicans seeking audio of special counsel Robert Hur’s interviews with President Joe Biden for a classified documents investigation despite a threat to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for defying their subpoenas.
Assistant Attorney General Carlos Uriarte wrote in a letter sent to House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) and Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Monday — which was the deadline the congressional leaders set for the materials — that a transcript for the two-day interview that was already provided to them should be sufficient.
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“The Department is concerned that the Committees’ particular focus on continuing to demand information that is cumulative of information we already gave you — what the President and Mr. Hur’s team said in the interview — indicates that the Committees’ interests may not be in receiving information in service of legitimate oversight or investigatory functions, but to serve political purposes that should have no role in the treatment of law enforcement files,” Uriarte said.
Comer and Jordan wrote to Garland two weeks ago, saying they received redacted transcripts of Hur’s interview with Biden on March 12, just hours before the special counsel testified before the House. The chairmen again demanded audio recordings of Hur’s interview with Biden, which they had stressed as a priority, and audio recordings of the special counsel’s interview with Biden’s ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, in compliance with subpoenas from February.
If Garland failed to provide the materials by April 8, the committees “will consider taking further action, such as the invocation of contempt of Congress proceedings,” they warned.
