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BumRushDaShow

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Fri Jul 19, 2024, 10:04 AM Jul 2024

DOJ again opposes release of 'properly withheld' Joe Biden audiotapes by warning of 'deepfakes', 'privacy harms'

Source: Law & Crime

Jul 19th, 2024, 9:28 am


The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday told a federal judge that combined efforts by two conservative groups and a coalition of mainstream media organizations to obtain “properly withheld” audiotapes of President Joe Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit should fail for numerous reasons, including that the threat of “deepfakes” and “privacy harms” to an uncharged individual are real and that forcing disclosure “would create a perverse incentive” against executive branch cooperation with Congress.

On the one hand, DOJ disputed that there is “any meaningful countervailing public benefit” to disclose the recordings given that a transcript of the interview was released and Hur testified before Congress about his report and non-charging recommendation for willful retainment and disclosure of “classified materials,” but on the other hand DOJ acknowledged that the the audiotapes contain “new information not contained in the written transcript,” namely the “sound, tone, and pacing” of Biden’s answers (i.e., the “non-lexical aspects” of the tapes).

DOJ is asking U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, a Donald Trump appointee, to grant summary judgment against the Heritage Foundation, Judicial Watch, and a media coalition, composed of CNN, ABC, The Associated Press, CBS News, The Wall Street Journal, NBC, Reuters, and others, by arguing that Biden’s “privacy interests” outweigh the “public interest” in releasing the tapes under FOIA. Here are some of the DOJ’s main arguments.

The audiotapes of the five-hour Biden interview with Hur was “properly withheld pursuant to multiple statutory exemptions,” in part, because releasing the tapes would interfere with “pending” law enforcement investigations.


Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/would-create-a-perverse-incentive-doj-again-opposes-release-of-properly-withheld-joe-biden-audiotapes-by-warning-of-deepfakes-privacy-harms-to-uncharged-individual/



Full headline: ‘Would create a perverse incentive’: DOJ again opposes release of ‘properly withheld’ Joe Biden audiotapes by warning of ‘deepfakes’, ‘privacy harms’ to uncharged individual

Link to FILING (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24883858/doj-biden.pdf
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DOJ again opposes release of 'properly withheld' Joe Biden audiotapes by warning of 'deepfakes', 'privacy harms' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jul 2024 OP
they should claim executive immunity, biden was doing his job, & following the law Captain Zero Jul 2024 #1
All the evidence should be destroyed neohippie Jul 2024 #2
Law abiding Joe Biden strikes again. GreenWave Jul 2024 #3
Good. Stand firm. 💙🦋🧢 eom Karma13612 Jul 2024 #4

Captain Zero

(7,495 posts)
1. they should claim executive immunity, biden was doing his job, & following the law
Fri Jul 19, 2024, 10:22 AM
Jul 2024

when he testified.

The tapes have executive immunity.
Fuck the Supreme Court.

neohippie

(1,167 posts)
2. All the evidence should be destroyed
Fri Jul 19, 2024, 11:07 AM
Jul 2024

If the Special Counsel Hur was improperly appointed per Cannon's ruling and Clarence Thomas' unofficial opinion then all the work that Hur did should be destroyed and never released

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