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Former President Joe Biden’s decision to sue the Department of Justice to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts is a naked attempt to hide the truth from the American people. The files at issue are not idle gossip — they are interviews tied to a special-counsel probe into his handling of classified material, and voters deserve to know what’s on them.
The recordings come from conversations Biden had in 2016 and 2017 with Mark Zwonitzer, who worked with the president on his memoir projects, and those tapes were reviewed by Special Counsel Robert Hur during his inquiry. Hur’s report made clear the tapes were central to his findings and that they captured moments the public ought to scrutinize.
The DOJ has signaled its intent to disclose redacted transcripts and audio to Congress and to the Heritage Foundation after a Freedom of Information Act battle, prompting Biden’s legal gambit to slow or stop that release. This isn’t about privacy alone — it’s about timing and control, and it smells like political gamesmanship aimed at preserving a narrative rather than allowing transparency.
Special Counsel Hur described the former president as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” and he declined to bring criminal charges, but that admission doesn’t erase the public-interest value of the material. If the recordings show lapses in recall or contradictions, Americans should hear them unvarnished and judge for themselves rather than be fed sanitized talking points.
On Newsmax’s The Record with Greta Van Susteren, Harvard Law’s Alan Dershowitz pushed back against secrecy and warned that sooner or later the recordings will be heard — the legal barricades cannot keep scrutiny at bay forever. Dershowitz’s point is simple and patriotic: in a free society, the default should be disclosure unless there’s a compelling, lawful reason otherwise.
Let’s be blunt: when the political class runs to court to prevent the release of evidence, ordinary Americans rightly suspect a cover-up. The very agency now being sued once argued the material should be exempt from disclosure, and that flip-flop only deepens the impression of selective justice and two sets of rules in Washington.
Conservatives and fair-minded citizens alike should demand that the DOJ stop treating transparency as a partisan tool and let the recordings see the light of day. The stakes are simple — accountability, truth, and the right of voters to decide who should lead this nation — and we won’t be satisfied with courtroom obfuscation when the people are asking for answers.
