Biden fights DOJ plan to release ghostwriter audio recordings

7 articles · Updated · POLITICO · May 10

His lawyers are contesting release of about 70 hours of 2017 recordings and transcripts from talks with ghostwriter Marc Zwonitzer, with a Justice Department objection deadline on Tuesday.
The material, gathered in Robert Hur's classified-documents inquiry, includes Biden reading from notebooks later deemed classified; any release is expected to be edited for privacy and to remove sensitive information.
Hur declined to charge Biden, and his team says disclosure breaks conditions of cooperation and is politically motivated, while Heritage's Oversight Project continues pressing for public release.

With one special counsel report sealed, what legal standard determines which presidential investigation records the public can access?

When do a president's private conversations become public records if they contain classified national security information?

Why was a ghostwriter who tried to delete evidence in a federal investigation granted immunity from prosecution?