White House announcement is latest maneuver in campaign to withhold information from Congress
By Bob Unruh
Joe Biden looks out the window of the Oval Office to the Rose Garden of the White House Monday, July 26, 2021. (Official White House photo by Adam Schultz)
Just as Congress was preparing a contempt citation for Joe Biden’s attorney general, Merrick Garland, for refusing to comply with a subpoena for the audio tapes of special counsel Robert Hur’s grilling of the president, the White House is insisting they are protected by executive privilege.
That, of course, is the same authority that Democrats have set aside in their multiple cases that they have developed against President Donald Trump during their lawfare campaign against him, trying to prevent his success in his 2024 bid for the Oval Office.
Biden’s attempt to use the precedent was outlined in a report in the Washington Examiner.
The Hur interviews with Biden have proven catastrophic for Democrats, as he found that Biden probably broke federal law in taking and keeping classified documents as a senator and then vice president for Barack Obama.
Not only did he not have authority to do that, but he also then stored them in unsecure locations like a garage at his home, and even shared them with a ghostwriter.
Hur, however, recommended against prosecution for Biden because of his “diminished” capacity, and how he likely would be seen by a jury as an old man with significant memory problems.