{"id":2307003,"date":"2024-07-23T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-suddenly-discovers-key-biden-transcripts-it-previously-denied-having\/"},"modified":"2024-07-23T17:44:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T21:44:59","slug":"doj-suddenly-discovers-key-biden-transcripts-it-previously-denied-having","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-suddenly-discovers-key-biden-transcripts-it-previously-denied-having\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Suddenly Discovers Key Biden Transcripts It Previously Denied Having"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdoj-suddenly-discovers-key-biden-transcripts-it-previously-denied-having%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2307003&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Have those records. Now, all\u200c of a sudden, they do? Everything about this is highly suspicious,&rdquo; the Oversight Project\u200c added.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation of the transcripts and Hur&#8217;s statements has raised questions about the DOJ&#8217;s handling of the investigation into Biden. Critics\u2063 have accused the department of \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kevin-mccarthy-puts-biden-in-crosshairs-doubles-down-on-impeachment-inquiry\/\" title=\"McCarthy targets Biden, intensifies impeachment inquiry.\">withholding crucial information<\/a> and only \u200breleasing it now that Biden is no longer in \u2064office.<\/p>\n<p>As more details continue to emerge, it is clear that the\u200b controversy surrounding Biden&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-biden-will-not-fire-fauci-under-any-circumstance\/\" title=\"Psaki: Biden will not fire Fauci under \u2018any circumstance\u2019\">alleged mishandling<\/a> of \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/roger-stone-announces-he-will-sue-those-who-arrested-him-and-put-him-in-front-of-a-kangaroo-court\/\" title=\"Roger Stone Announces He Will Sue Those Who Arrested Him and Put Him In Front of a Kangaroo Court\">classified documents<\/a> is far from over. The congressional investigation and legal battles are likely to continue as more information comes to light.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section>\n<p>Just one day after the announcement of President Joe Biden&rsquo;s withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race, his Department of Justice reported that it has located a transcript of a Biden interview that it previously said did not exist.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/attorney-general-merrick-garland-lambasted-threatening-americans-criticism-biden-doj-must-stop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DOJ<\/a> admitted to a federal judge Monday that there are, in fact, transcripts of Biden&rsquo;s meetings with his biographer, Mark Zwonitzer, for Biden&rsquo;s 2007 and 2017 memoirs, according to a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/07\/23\/biden-hur-biographer-transcripts-00170548\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the department had told U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich that it would be too time-consuming to transcribe roughly 70 hours of audio files and screen them for classified content.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We don&rsquo;t have some transcript that&rsquo;s been created by the special counsel that we can attest to its accuracy,&rdquo; Justice Department lawyer Cameron Silverberg said during a June 18 regarding a suit brought by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/first-time-ever-heritage-foundation-gives-disturbing-report-americas-military-capability\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heritage Foundation<\/a>, a conservative organization, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>But early this week, Silverberg told the court there had been a new development on that front.<\/p>\n<p>  <script> \t\t\t\tif( ! getCookie( 'ff_subbed' ) ) if( typeof FFADS.replace_ict !='undefined' ) if( FFADS.replace_ict ) eval( FFADS.replace_ict ); \t\t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In the past few days&hellip;the Department located six electronic files, consisting of a total of 117 pages, that appeared to be verbatim transcripts of a small subset of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-republicans-advance-contempt-charges-bidens-ghostwriter-refusing-turn-records\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden-Zwonitzer<\/a> audio recordings created for the [special counsel&rsquo;s office] by a court-reporting service,&rdquo; he reported, according to Politico.<\/p>\n<p>The Heritage Foundation was just one of many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-73976-ballots-released-by-maricopa-county-56-1-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"BREAKING: 73,976 Ballots Released By Maricopa County \u2014 56.1% FOR DONALD TRUMP\">news outlets<\/a> and conservative organizations that &ldquo;swamped&rdquo; the DOJ with requests for documentation after a report by special counsel Robert Hur was issued in February, Politico reported.<\/p>\n<p>In his report, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-priceless-look-hurs-face-finally-admits-biden-lied\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hur<\/a> explained he had decided against criminally prosecuting Biden for alleged mishandling classified documents because the president came across as &ldquo;a well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>That startling declaration about the U.S. commander in chief launched a congressional investigation in addition to the lawsuits and Freedom of Information Act requests &ldquo;demanding access to various records related to Hur&rsquo;s probe,&rdquo; according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utter-devastation-biden-promises-trumps-tax-cuts-are-dead-parents-to-lose-thousands\/\" title=\"Complete Destruction: Biden Vows End of Trump&#039;s Tax Cuts - Parents Face Huge Losses\">liberal political news outlet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ &ldquo;also reversed itself on another matter,&rdquo; Politico reported, explaining that the department had initially &ldquo;resisted requests from Heritage to contact Hur and find out what materials he relied upon for key portions of his report.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But in the end, the DOJ &ldquo;relented&rdquo; and contacted Hur, who &ldquo;acknowledged relying on the Biden-Zwonitzer audio &mdash; as well as a portion of Biden&rsquo;s handwritten notes pertaining to a memo about Afghanistan &mdash; to compile his report.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Some observers had a cynical response to the to the news of the recently discovered transcripts and questioned the timing of the revelation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Now that Biden&rsquo;s not running, it&rsquo;s AMAZING what info DOJ can cough up <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ClTb0YjDqB\">https:\/\/t.co\/ClTb0YjDqB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HawleyMO\/status\/1815733179367428318?\">July 23, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Now that Biden&rsquo;s not running, it&rsquo;s AMAZING what info DOJ can cough up,&rdquo; GOP Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/josh-hawley-recounts-crazy-encounter-fbi-visited-trump-shooting-scene\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Josh Hawley<\/a> of Missouri commented in a post on social media platform X.<\/p>\n<p>The Oversight Project, an arm of the Heritage Foundation, was equally skeptical.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#128680;Everything about this is highly suspicious.&#128680;<\/p>\n<p>For months, we have been in court seeking records that Hur relied upon in making the statements in his report where he raised concerns about President Biden&rsquo;s mental acuity. (1\/4) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g6Cx9kRYjA\">https:\/\/t.co\/g6Cx9kRYjA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Oversight Project (@OversightPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OversightPR\/status\/1815741377512198582?\">July 23, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For months, we have been in court seeking records that Hur relied upon in making the statements in his report where he raised concerns about President Biden&rsquo;s mental acuity,&rdquo; the organization said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For months, DOJ has been adamant to us and the judge that they didn&rsquo;t need to talk to Hur and invented a search protocol to avoid accountability and transparency,&rdquo; the organization continued in the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OversightPR\/status\/1815741379466731759\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second<\/a> of a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OversightPR\/status\/1815741380993393138\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thread<\/a>&nbsp;of <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OversightPR\/status\/1815741845885878572\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">four<\/a> posts on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The posts continued: &ldquo;Now, less than 12 hours before a hearing and after we briefed this issue, DOJ makes this &lsquo;discovery.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are pleased we forced DOJ to finally come clean and will continue to press our case in court to obtain these records for the American people.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Make no mistake, we forced this issue. 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Now, all\u200c of a sudden, they do? Everything about this is highly suspicious,&rdquo; the Oversight Project\u200c added. The revelation of the transcripts and Hur&#8217;s statements has raised questions about the DOJ&#8217;s handling of the investigation into Biden. Critics\u2063 have accused the department of \u2062withholding crucial information and only \u200breleasing it now that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2307004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/dojoever.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3620,8458,6970,7076,11101],"class_list":["post-2307003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biden","tag-denial","tag-discovery","tag-doj","tag-transcripts"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/dojoever.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2307003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2307004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2307003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2307003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2307003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}