President Joe Biden asserted executive privilege on Thursday over his interview with special counsel Robert Hur to prevent Congress from obtaining his audio recordings.
If Donald Trump had done what Joe Biden just did, there would immediate impeachment hearings scheduled, and the media would trumpet it all day long so it would be the only story you would think was happening.
What did he do? He asserted executive privilege to stop Congress from hearing his classified documents scandal interview with the Special Counsel.
“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.” Proverbs 29:2 (KJB)
For all the current Predictive Programming about the coming civil war, maybe that’s what we need to try and correct the very downward course that America is on right now.
Maybe, as Thomas Jefferson wrote, sometimes only an uprising can fix things. Jefferson wrote: “And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” Maybe that’s exactly what America needs right now.
Joe Biden Asserts Executive Privilege to Keep Audio Recordings of His Special Counsel Interview from Congress.
FROM BREITBART NEWS: The House Oversight Committee scheduled a markup on Thursday to begin the process of holding Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for his refusal to hand over the recording. Garland defied a final warning in April to comply with a subpoena for the audio of Biden’s interview with the special counsel.
During the president’s interview with Hur, Biden, 81, experienced mental lapses and “poor memory” at least seven times, according to a transcript obtained by Breitbart News.
“I write to inform you that the President has asserted executive privilege over the requested audio recordings and is making a protective assertion of privilege over any remaining materials responsive to the subpoenas that have not already been produced,” Associate Attorney General Carlos Uriarte wrote to House Judiciary and Oversight Committee chairs Jim Jordan (R-OH) and James Comer (R-KY).
“It is the longstanding position of the executive branch held by administrations of both parties that an official who asserts the President’s claim of executive privilege cannot be prosecuted for criminal contempt of Congress,” the added.
Garland refused to comment on Biden’s executive action Thursday when reporters asked about it.
“The absence of a legitimate need for the audio recordings lays bare your likely goal — to chop them up, distort them, and use them for partisan political purposes,” White House counsel Ed Siskel told House Republicans. “Demanding such sensitive and constitutionally-protected law enforcement materials from the Executive Branch because you want to manipulate them for potential political gain is inappropriate.”
Conservative think tanks and CNN have filed FOIA requests to unlock the audio records. READ MORE
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