Biden asserts executive privilege over Hur audio files ahead of House contempt proceedings against Garland | CNN Politics
Biden asserts executive privilege over Hur audio files ahead of House contempt proceedings against Garland | CNN Politics
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The House Oversight and Judiciary committees are scheduled to begin the process of holding Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with those subpoenas on Thursday.
The White House pointed out that the Department of Justice has already provided the transcripts of the special counsel’s interviews with Biden and his ghostwriter, and has complied with the other aspects of the initial subpoena from Republicans.
“With the information you now have, the Committees ought not proceed with contempt and should instead avoid unnecessary and unwarranted conflict,” Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legislative Affairs, Carlos Uriarte wrote.
Without the votes in their narrow majority or evidence of an impeachable offense, Republicans are now struggling with how to end their probe and are looking for ways to target other members of the Biden administration.
In their contempt reports, Republicans stated that the DOJ does not get to determine what information is useful to their investigation, and argued that the verbal nuances of an audio recording provide unique insight into a subject that are not reflected in a transcript.
Such pauses and inflections, Republicans claim, “can provide indications of a witness’s ability to recall events, or whether the individual is intentionally giving evasive or nonresponsive testimony to investigators.”
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So...
When Biden and the White House complained about the result of:
Biden knowingly broke the law but is too old and confused to be prosecuted
And they told us that was partisan bullshit and the interview tapes would show he has his shit together but they can't release the tapes...
That was complete bullshit?
This is the same shit trump would pull.
No. They just know that Republicans and their cable news sycophants will do the exact thing they did with the Hur report.
Ignore the overall findings, find one sentence in it that spins it negative, soundbite the fuck out of it, and repeat it ad nauseum.
And yes, this is the same thing Trump did. And Obama. And Bush. This has been a standard move for decades. It's just news now because of the regressive morons in congress and their orange dictator-in-waiting.
Republicans are going to say stupid shit anyways...
They're already saying it.
The only reason to hide the tapes, is they make Biden look bad. If he had his shit together, they'd be trying to release them to show people the report was biased.
Candidate:
This would exonate me!
Everyone else:
Can we see/hear it?
Candidate:
Objection! If people saw/heard this, it would make me look bad!
This is a bad thing regardless of the letter next to a candidates name.
Edit:
Ignore the overall findings
...
That's what you're doing..
The overall findings was Biden knowingly committed crimes.
find one sentence in it that spins it n
That's what you're doing.
You latched on "charges not recommended" and are ignoring the rest of the sentence that says the only reason is because due to Biden's age and confusion, it's unlikely he'd be found guilty as people would be sympathetic.
You're not even focusing on a single sentence...
They just want to have him on tape saying vroom vroom.
Abusing executive privilege to gain an upper hand in the election is exactly what trump would do.
Republicans already have full transcripts of the conversations and now want the audio so they can pull out of context for political purposes. But, they now can't have them. Moving on...