Did DOJ Destroy the Special Counsel Audio Interview With Biden?

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Did DOJ Destroy the Special Counsel Audio Interview With Biden?​

Did DOJ Destroy the Special Counsel Audio Interview With Biden?

townhall.com

17 Jun 2024 ~~ By Katie Pavlich

Attorney General Merrick Garland was voted in contempt of Congress last week by the U.S. House of Representatives after repeatedly refusing to hand over the audio interview conducted by former Special Counsel Robert Hur with President Joe Biden. The interview was part of Hur's investigation into Biden's mishandling of classified information when he left the U.S. Senate and vice presidency.

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The transcript of Hur's interview with Biden was released shortly after the Special Counsel investigation was completed and found the president is "too old" with a "bad memory" to be charged with felonies he committed - which are documented in the final report.
Since February DOJ has been adamant about hiding the audio version of the conversation from the American people. President Biden asserted executive privilege over the audio version, but not the printed transcript.
Now there are questions about whether the audio has been destroyed.

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Commentary:
Destroying the recordings is insurance for when he’s no longer at the DOJ and his contempt of congress is still alive. The DOJ would still have the recordings after Trump wins the White House, and leaving the recordings to the next DOJ head, would be very damaging to the ‘former’ DOJ head and to Biden and to democrats and to the left-wing media. So, there’s no doubt that the recordings have ‘disappeared’.
In the future, congress and perhaps even SCOTUS should get copy of any interview recordings of potential criminality, ‘just in case’. It’s critical for ‘oversight’ by any of the 3 branches of the Federal government.
See: -- 18 U.S. Code § 1519 - Destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in Federal investigations and bankruptcy

They may not be able to have Garland prosecuted now, but a GOP majority can still lock his ass up until the end of this term and there isn’t a damned thing the DOJ can do to stop them. Not legally, anyway.
Republicans know they can do it. The real question is why haven’t they?
Congress still has authority over the office of Attorney General.