After Attorney General Merrick Garland said that turning over the audio and video recordings of the interview would impede the DOJ’s efforts to get witnesses to cooperate in future investigations, the White House announced that it would claim executive privilege on the House request, the Washington Post reports.
In letters to crybaby Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan, the rape misprisioner, and Oversight chair Jamie Comer, the perpetually embarrassed conspiracist, Counsel to the President Edward Siskel lambasted the obvious purpose for the GOP request given that the DOJ has already turned over the transcripts and Special Counsel Robert Hur did not recommend charges in Biden’s document case.
“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.