Biden filed a federal lawsuit to prevent the Justice Department from releasing transcripts and audio from interviews conducted in 2016 and 2017. The conversations were with Mark Zwonitzer, who worked with Biden on two memoirs. The materials later came under review by Robert Hur, the special counsel investigating allegations that Biden improperly handled classified documents. Hur interviewed Biden for five hours and issued a 2024 report to Congress stating there was no criminal wrongdoing, while describing Biden as well-meaning but with poor memory. Biden withdrew from the 2024 election after repeated questioning of his age and mental competence and endorsed Kamala Harris. The lawsuit alleges an unwarranted invasion of privacy and seeks to stop DOJ from providing the recordings to the House judiciary committee and the Heritage Foundation.
"Biden filed a lawsuit to try to prevent the justice department (DoJ) from releasing transcripts and audio of interviews that exposed his frequent memory lapses and helped derail his 2024 re-election campaign. The decade-old conversations with the author of his biography ended up in the hands of Robert Hur, the special counsel who was appointed to look into allegations Biden improperly handled classified documents. Hur evaluated the files, and also spent five hours interviewing Biden himself, concluding in a 2024 report to Congress that there was no criminal wrongdoing, but portraying the then 81-year-old president as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."
"His lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court in Washington DC, accuses the DoJ of an unwarranted invasion of President Biden's privacy. It seeks to halt the department, which once fought to keep the transcripts and recordings secret, from handing them over to the Republican-controlled House judiciary committee and conservative Heritage Foundation. Every American, including a sitting or former vice-president, has a right to privacy in the personal conversations he has within his own home, his attorneys wrote of the conversations from 2016 and 2017 with Mark Zwonitzer, the author who worked with Biden on two memoirs."
"And when the US Department of Justice obtains that private information through a criminal investigation, the Department bears a particular responsibility to protect it from disclosure. The recordings, made during and immediately after Biden served as Barack Obama's vice-president, were scrutinized by Hur, a Republican, as part of his investigation. In his report, Hur found Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a pri"
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