Biden denies taped testimony on withholding classified documents

US President Joe Biden has invoked his executive powers to block Republicans from obtaining a recording of his testimony to special counsel Robert Hare about his withholding of classified documents. In a letter to the Judiciary and Oversight Committees, the Justice Department said Biden exercised his executive privilege, a power that prohibits the disclosure of certain executive branch records. The same text states that the president invoked the same executive privilege for the taped testimony of his unidentified memoirist, Mark Zwonitzer, to Herr. According to the Associated Press, Zoonitzer collaborated with Biden on the writing of two books and shared with him classified information contained in documents he had kept that were later found in his home and old office. The Oversight Committee intended today to begin the process leading to a vote to impeach him […]
Source: News Beast

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