Two House committees on Thursday will consider whether to recommend that US Attorney General
In a report, the Oversight and Accountability panel outlines what it calls the Justice Department’s failure under Garland to comply with congressional subpoenas for an audio recording of President
The report, to also be considered in a separate potential contempt vote by the Judiciary Committee, asserts the department has invoked no constitutional or legal privilege to withhold this material and that it has impeded the House’s ongoing impeachment inquiry of the president.
That inquiry has had little success so far, but Hur in his report set off a political bombshell when he referred to Biden as “an elderly man with a poor memory.” The special counsel did not bring charges in the case.
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If the Republican-controlled panels approve the contempt resolution, it would be sent to the full House for approval, and potential referral by Speaker
In a letter last month to the two committee chairmen, Assistant Attorney General Carlos Uriarte, the Justice Department’s head of congressional affairs, wrote, “the committees have not articulated a legitimate congressional need to obtain audio recordings from Mr. Hur’s investigation, let alone one that outweighs the department’s strong interest in protecting the confidentiality of law enforcement files.”
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