Former US President Joe Biden has sued the Department of Justice (DOJ) in an attempt to prevent the release of audio recordings and transcripts from his interviews with a ghostwriter. These are files gathered during the special counsel investigation into his handling of classified documents.
The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday in federal court in Washington. It targets the department’s plan to hand the materials over to Congress and the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. The move reverses the DOJ's earlier position that the files were exempt from disclosure under public records law.
As reported by AP, Biden’s attorneys argue the release would amount to an unwarranted invasion of their client's privacy. “Every American, including a sitting or former Vice President, has a right to privacy in the personal conversations he has within his own home,” they wrote. “When the US Department of Justice obtains that private information through a criminal investigation, the Department bears a particular responsibility to protect it.”
