A new court filing indicates that former President Joe Biden’s legal team is expected to object to the release of his 2017 ghostwriter interactions.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is set to release audio recordings and transcripts of “Biden’s 2017 interactions with his book ghostwriter,” but his legal team appears to be objecting.
“President Biden, through counsel, has advised the Department that he intends to seek to intervene to prevent any such disclosures,” reads a filing from Assistant Attorney General Civil Division Brett Shumate, from a Heritage Foundation Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. “The Department does not oppose intervention.”
“Shumate noted the release of 70 hours of redacted recordings would be delayed until June 15 if Biden objects” ahead of the Tuesday deadline, according to Fox News.
“Defendant intends to disclose the written transcript and audio recordings at issue in this matter, with redactions, to Congress, pursuant to a request from the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, as well as to Plaintiffs,” reads the filing.
The audio recording and transcripts in question were taken during meetings with a ghostwriter working on “Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose.” They were later acquired by Special Council Robert Hur, who was investigating the former president’s handling of classified documents.
“It appears that after lengthy negotiation covering several months — at no point seeking to intervene into this case on a timely basis — President Biden has changed position and now seeks to even enjoin the release of the portions of transcripts that match exact phrases quoted in the Hur Report,” Shumate revealed.
“President Biden cooperated fully with special counsel Hur, and agreed to provide audiotapes of conversations with his biographer for a book about his deceased son on the condition that they would not be made public,” TJ Ducklo, a spokesperson for Biden, said on Sunday. “The DOJ themselves have said these tapes serve no public interest.”
“What’s happening now isn’t about transparency. It’s about politics. If this Administration were genuinely committed to transparency, they would release Volume 2 of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on Donald Trump’s own alleged mishandling of classified documents. That report contains information Americans actually deserve to see.”
But Heritage’s Oversight Project president, Howell, disagrees.
“These tapes will further prove the massive lie regarding Biden’s fitness for office and the fact that Biden revealed classified information,” he said. “The shenanigans aren’t over: At the last possible second, and after every delay tactic possible, the autopen is objecting to the American People receiving transparency.”
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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