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Home Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) misplaced it after DOJ denied request for Biden/Her interview audio.
CBS Information reported:
It can be crucial for the Division to grasp why the Committees imagine they want the remaining info in these recordsdata,” Assistant Lawyer Normal Carolos Uriarte wrote in his letter.
He wrote that the Justice Division “labored diligently” to answer congressional requests and argued that because of these efforts, the committees had already acquired “a unprecedented quantity of data – and rapidly.”
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Uriarte mentioned the Justice Division was “involved” that Jordan and Comer's request for an audio model of the interview – regardless of having already reviewed a transcript – was meant to serve “political functions that haven’t any bearing on the regulation's therapy.” Should not be “enforcement recordsdata.”
Releasing the audio recordsdata to Congress, he wrote on Monday, dangers “chilling” future investigations if witnesses concern that audio variations of their interviews might be launched.
The DOJ's response led to Comer blowing a gasket and mainly accusing President Biden of a cover-up:
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The Biden administration is unable to find out what Congress is and isn’t required to do with oversight of the manager department.
The American individuals are entitled to listen to the precise audio of President Biden's responses to Particular Counsel Hur.
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– Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) 8 April 2024
The DOJ was proper. Jordan and Comer haven’t any legislative goal for requesting the audio. The Oversight and Judiciary Committees have already got the transcript and testimony of Robert Hur earlier than the Home Judiciary Committee. The DOJ has lower than zero purpose at hand over the audio to Jordan and Comer.
The audio doesn’t match the scope of the Biden impeachment inquiry, and it might definitely make different witnesses much less belief federal regulation enforcement in the event that they thought their interviews can be turned over to Congress and broadcast to the complete world.
Biden impeachment is over, and Comer and Jordan had been known as out by the DOJ for attempting to abuse their oversight energy for a political stunt.
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