What's He Hiding?
Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight Committee both voted to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt. Why? Because he has refused to comply with congressional subpoenas for audio recordings of Joe Biden's interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur.
The votes came in response to President Biden asserting executive privilege over the recordings at Garland's request. In a letter to the president, Garland wrote:
"The Committees' needs are plainly insufficient to outweigh the deleterious effects that productions of the recordings would have on the integrity and effectiveness of similar law enforcement investigations in the future."
That's totally absurd. The transcript has already been released. How could the audio recordings possibly threaten future investigations? Moreover, Biden waived his executive privilege when he agreed to release the transcript!
White House Counsel Ed Siskel's response to committee Chairmen Jim Jordan and James Comer was even more direct. Siskel declared:
"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."
Translation: The White House is withholding the recordings for partisan political purposes in order to provide cover for and prevent embarrassment to candidate Joe Biden.
As a reminder, Hur declined to prosecute Joe Biden not because he thought Biden was innocent of mishandling classified documents but because he thought Biden was too senile to stand trial.
You'd think the White House would be eager to quash the idea that Biden is mentally incompetent by releasing the audio recordings. Just a couple of months ago, the White House insisted that Biden "had nothing to hide."
They are clearly trying to hide something now. The fact that they are resisting so aggressively tells you just how bad those recordings and Biden's mental state really are.
By the way, this is another example of the two systems of justice. Trump aides are in jail today and Trump is facing another trial because his claims of executive privilege were denied.
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