Justice Department blasts GOP effort to hold Garland in contempt over Biden audio | AP News

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Subject: Justice Department blasts GOP effort to hold Garland in contempt
over Biden audio | AP News

https://apnews.com/article/biden-classified-documents-special-counsel-hur-congress-garland-91b60bc1f2a9db2e1ec4a131836ab10a


BY FARNOUSH AMIRI
Updated 7:13 PM EDT, April 8, 2024
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Monday blasted Republicans’
effort to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt over his
refusal to turn over unredacted materials related to the special counsel
probe into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents.

In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, the Justice Department
rejected the demand from House Republicans that the agency turn over the
full audio of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s hourslong interviews with Biden
and his ghostwriter. Republicans had given the Justice Department until
Monday to provide the audio.

Assistant Attorney General Carlos Uriarte, the Justice Department’s head of
congressional affairs, said in the letter to Reps. James Comer and Jim
Jordan that despite GOP claims to the contrary, the department has complied
with each of the four elements of the subpoena that House Republicans sent
in February.

“The Committees’ reaction is difficult to explain in terms of any lack of
information or frustration of any informational or investigative
imperative, given the Department’s actual conduct,” Uriarte wrote. “We are
therefore concerned that the Committees are disappointed not because you
didn’t receive information, but because you did.”
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