President Joe Biden’s invoking of executive privilege to shield the audio recording of his interview with a special prosecutor about his retention of classified documents amounts to a taxpayer-backed “catch and kill” operation, contends one litigant seeking to obtain the audio.
Biden’s position against releasing the audio of his exchanges with special counsel Robert Hur comes as the House Oversight and Accountability Committee was poised to vote Thursday evening on holding Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for withholding the recording from Congress.
The House Judiciary Committee also voted to hold Garland in contempt of Congress. The full House would have to approve such an action.
