Posted on 05/06/2024 4:12:33 PM PDT by Libloather
Republicans will move to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress, DailyMail.com confirmed, after the Department of Justice refused to hand over audio tapes of Joe Biden's interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur.
The attorney general had until April 8 to hand over requested materials from Robert Hur's interviews with Biden that led him to conclude the president is 'elderly' and 'well-meaning' but has a 'poor memory.'
They subpoenaed transcripts, notes, audio and video files largely related to Hur's interview.
While the DOJ has handed over transcripts of Hur's interviews with Biden as well as the transcript and audio recordings of an interview with Biden's ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer, Republicans are unsatisfied.
They have insisted they need audio from Hur's interview too.
But nearly a month after the deadline to send the audio tapes passed, the House Judiciary Committee is now moving to hold Garland in contempt of Congress, DailyMail.com confirmed.
The Judiciary committee will hold a markup of the contempt hearing on May 16.
The DOJ, however, said in an April letter to the GOP committee chairmen that the department had already been 'extraordinarily' accommodating in giving up the Biden transcript.
They said releasing audio as well might make it harder for prosecutors to secure recorded interviews in the future, with witnesses knowing they could be blasted out into the public.
'The Committees have already received the extraordinary accommodation of the transcripts, which gives you the information you say you need,' the letter, written by assistant attorney general Carlos Uriarte, read.
'To go further by producing the audio files would compound the likelihood that future prosecutors will be unable to secure this level of cooperation. They might have a harder time obtaining consent to an interview at all. It is clearly not in the public interest to...
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Dems don’t care. Look at Holder, he was held in contempt and just laughed.
Oh please. They will do nothing. Just talk. Like Zeepers.
While Peter Navarro sits in prison for defying a subpoena from an unconstitutoonal kangaroo court.
Contempt of congress. I’m sure he’s going to have to change his underwear after hearing about that.
What’s more disgusting than a criminal Democrat? A bunch of Republican legislators who think they’re badass
Contempt of Congress LOL. Those guys need a dentist because there is no teeth in anything they do and Garland knows it.
That’s not enough. He needs to be held in custody until the files are provided.
YAWN...
Send the Sgt At Arm to arrest Garland.
L
By withholding the tapes, Garland is announcing to the world that the info contained in them is really, really bad and that Biden is in far worse shape than we have thus far seen. Garland is caught between a rock and a hard place. That’s good for Trump.
Hahaha! Mikey will be right on that....
Yawn. Another strongly worded letter.
Asked what it felt like to take human life, “I wouldn’t know, I’ve only ever killed Communists.....”
The GOP War Room will meet in special session over lunch tomorrow to hopefully reach consensus on how sternly written the letter should be.
Or better yet, charge him personally per day until he gives the tapes so they can see if the transcripts are accurate, like they’ve done with Catherine Herridge who won’t give up her sources.
What are they hiding?
Yes!
My guess is that the transcript isn’t accurate.
Their argument is all backwards. There is no way I would allow an interview with anybody from the Deep State unless it WAS recorded. And for the same reason that the committee needs the recording: DOJ is infamous for just making stuff up.
He'll do the same thing Eric Holder did when he was held in contempt of Congress.
Give Congress the big ole' one-fingered salute.
And totally get away with it. Just like Holder did.
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