‘Colossal public interest’: Mainstream media, conservative groups fire back at DOJ rationale for withholding audiotapes of President Biden’s special counsel interview

Robert Hur, Joe Biden

Left: Special counsel Robert Hur listens to recorded remarks of President Joe Biden during a hearing on Capitol Hill in March (AP Photo/Nathan Howard, File).

One day after President Joe Biden announced that he will not run for reelection, the U.S. Department of Justice on Monday told a federal judge presiding over a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit that it recently “learned” about “verbatim” transcripts of a Biden biographer’s audio recordings that were part of special counsel Robert Hur’s classified documents probe.

In February, Hur released a report spanning hundreds of pages that pointed out that DOJ policy “foreclose[s] criminal charges against a sitting president” and that, in any event, he was not recommending charges against Biden though there was evidence he “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.”

Those documents related to U.S. “military and foreign policy in Afghanistan” and Biden’s “handwritten entries about issues of national security and foreign policy implicating sensitive intelligence sources and methods.”

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