"The tapes include 70 hours of audio and transcripts of interviews between Biden and ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer which were recorded while Zwonitzer was working with Biden on his 2017 memoir, Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose. The recordings were obtained by investigators working for Special Counsel Robert Hur, who was appointed in 2023 to lead an investigation into Biden's handling of classified documents after leaving office as vice president. The investigation followed the discovery of classified information in Biden's Delaware home and among files from a Biden-linked think tank."
"Zwonitzer, who was granted immunity by the special prosecutor, had tried to delete the recordings, but Hur's investigators were able to recover them. The tapes include Biden reading journal entries to Zwonitzer which Hur concluded had contained classified information. Hur's controversial report quotes some of the exchanges, including Biden at one point telling the writer that he "just found all the classified stuff downstairs." Biden has denied that he shared classified information with Zwonitzer."
"The Heritage Foundation filed a lawsuit seeking the tapes under the Freedom of Information Act, and on Friday, lawyers from the conservative foundation and Justice Department filed a status report to a federal judge indicating that the DOJ intended to hand over redacted transcripts and the audio recordings to Congress and the Heritage Foundation."
"The president of the Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project, Mike Howell, told Politico in a statement that the tapes "will further prove the massive lie regarding Biden's fitness for office and the fact Biden revealed classified information" and criticized Biden for attempting to block their release: "The shenanigans aren't over: At the last possible second, and after every delay tactic possibl"
The recordings include 70 hours of audio and interview transcripts between Joe Biden and ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer made during Zwonitzer’s work on Biden’s 2017 memoir, Promise Me, Dad. The material was obtained by investigators for Special Counsel Robert Hur, appointed in 2023 to investigate Biden’s handling of classified documents after classified information was found in his Delaware home and in files associated with a Biden-linked think tank. Zwonitzer received immunity and attempted to delete the recordings, but investigators recovered them. Hur concluded that some journal entries read by Biden contained classified information and quoted exchanges from the recordings. The Heritage Foundation sought the tapes under the Freedom of Information Act, and the Justice Department indicated it would provide redacted transcripts and audio to Congress and the Heritage Foundation.
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