Following Special Counsel Robert Hur’s now-completed investigation into President Biden’s suspected inappropriate retention of secret records over a period of months, Fox News has learned that the President did not claim presidential privilege or attempt to have any portion of the report redacted.
Attorney General Merrick Garland received the report on Monday; it is anticipated that it will be released to the public shortly.
Garland informed Congress that the report and its conclusions might be reviewed by the White House for “executive privilege consistent with the President’s constitutional prerogatives.”
Following Special Counsel Robert Hur’s now-completed investigation into President Biden’s suspected inappropriate retention of secret records over a period of months, Fox News has learned that the President did not claim presidential privilege or attempt to have any portion of the report redacted.
Attorney General Merrick Garland received the report on Monday; it is anticipated that it will be released to the public shortly.
Garland informed Congress that the report and its conclusions might be reviewed by the White House for “executive privilege consistent with the President’s constitutional prerogatives.”
The review of privileges was completed by the White House on Thursday morning.
A spokesman for the White House Counsel’s Office, Ian Sams, stated, “We informed the Justice Department at approximately 9:00 this morning that our privilege review has concluded.” “In keeping with his commitment to cooperation and transparency throughout this investigation, the President declined to assert privilege over any portion of the report.”
Only in early January 2023 were classified materials made public after they were initially discovered inside the Penn Biden Center think tank’s Washington, D.C., headquarters on November 2, 2022.
After a second cache of sensitive information was discovered in December 2022 in the president’s Wilmington, Delaware garage, Attorney General Merrick Garland named former U.S. Attorney Rob Hur to the position of in January 2023, a special counsel.Congress received the report on Thursday afternoon.
