Many Americans are wondering what happened to Joe Biden. Now we’re getting some clues.
Because a DOJ watchdog revealed this stunning truth about Joe Biden.
During an ongoing lawsuit to compel the Justice Department (DOJ) to produce records from Special Counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents before being elected president, the DOJ revealed the discovery of 117 pages of transcribed conversations between the president and his ghostwriter.
The Oversight Project, a conservative government transparency monitor that sued the DOJ, highlighted the finding on Wednesday.
Mark Zwonitzer, the ghostwriter, had already been subject to a March subpoena from the House Judiciary Committee, which requested all papers, contracts, and recordings of interviews and talks with Biden.
However, Oversight Project counsel Kyle Brosnan stated on Wednesday that this discovery is both unique and highlights the importance of transparency in dealing with doubts about Biden’s competency.
According to Brosnan, the Justice Department informed the court of the transcripts just before the Oversight Project’s most recent hearing on the topic.
“There do exist written transcripts of President Biden’s interviews with his ghostwriter where they discuss classified material, and that Special Counsel Hur relied upon those written transcripts in coming to his conclusions [that Biden was a ‘well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory’].”
Zwonitzer collaborated to write the memoir Promise Me, Dad, which was released in 2017.
“The discovery of those materials has been the subject of a lot of back-and-forth between us and the Justice Department about how we want to proceed,” Brosnan told reporters.
“We’re trying to figure out how that discovery impacts the case and kind of what the next steps are there.”
According to a court file obtained by Fox News Digital, Justice Department officials informed the judge and plaintiff Mike Howell, Brosnan’s colleague and Oversight Project executive director, of the alleged discovery.
The officials wrote that in their last June court hearing, they testified that Hur’s office did not have a verbatim transcript of any Zwonitzer-Biden recordings.
The DOJ subsequently stated that Howell’s staff “questioned this representation” and pointed to a footnote in a document that allegedly indicated it was taken from a transcript.
When the department was unable to reach anyone with knowledge of special counsel office files, they contacted Hur directly, who confirmed that the files were transcripts of a subset of Zwonitzer-Biden recordings.
Brosnan acknowledged that conversations with the DOJ are currently underway to determine how to handle the next tranche.
“There’s over 70 hours of tapes between Biden and Zwonitzer. So, that’s obviously a lot of material that’s going to take the Justice Department a long time to process,” he said.
Regarding his team’s bigger legal dispute with the DOJ – the use of executive privilege over the Hur tapes – Brosnan said one of the administration’s main assertions appears to be contradicted by the former official they quoted.
After Congress was provided a transcript of the Hur-Biden interview, the Biden administration used former Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s 2008 letter safeguarding White House interoffice communications to support its executive privilege case.
However, Mukasey stated in a June court statement that, while he supports the use of presidential privilege, the Biden administration’s assertion is “flawed.”
“I believe the assertion of executive privilege made here goes well beyond the limits of any prior assertion and is not supported by the 2008 executive privilege letter.”
“The reasons given for invoking this privilege are entirely unconvincing,” Mukasey, who served under President George W. Bush, wrote about Biden.
The Justice Department declined to comment for the purposes of this report.
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