As Ed pointed out this morning, the transcripts of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s interviews with President Biden were released today, and they seem to confirm some of the specific claims made in Hur’s report about Biden’s memory lapses.
During Hur’s questioning by members of congress he was asked if he was aware the transcripts had been released today and he said he was. He was then asked if he had anything to do with the timing of the release and he said no, specifically that doing so was above his pay grade. In other words, there’s no necessary or natural reason the transcripts were released today except the obvious one: Politics. It looks like someone higher up at the DOJ decided to release the transcripts to Congress and from there it immediately found its way to major newspapers.
If the plan was to muddy the waters of Hur’s testimony it seems to have worked. Both the NY Times…
