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Biden ghostwriter tapes released after injunction

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2026-07-29 03:42 UTC → 2026-07-29 03:54 UTC · added removed

After a three‑judge panel of the D.C. Circuit lifted the injunction and Biden’s legal team voluntarily dismissed the remaining FOIA suit, a temporary injunction, the Justice Department released the redacted audio and transcripts from roughly 70 hours of Biden’s 2016‑2017 memoir interviews with between former President Joe Biden and his memoir ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer. Biden’s legal team voluntarily dismissed the remaining FOIA suit, ending attempts to keep the material private. The conservative Oversight Project Project, a nonprofit arm of the Heritage Foundation that sued for the files, made approximately about three hours of audio and 117 pages of heavily redacted transcripts public. In the roughly 70‑hour collection public, showing clips Biden cautioning repeatedly warns the writer about possible classified material and noting that some content may be classified, says he had “found all the classified stuff downstairs.” The recordings also contain several downstairs,” and exhibits frequent memory lapses. lapses such as “I don’t remember.” The release follows the Heritage Foundation‑backed Heritage‑backed lawsuit that prompted the government’s initial refusal to turn over the material. and stems from material collected during Special Counsel Robert Hur’s 2024 investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents. Hur’s report concluded that no criminal charge while classified material was warranted, present, there was insufficient evidence for criminal charges, attributing the evidence findings to the actions of an elderly man with a weak Biden’s advanced age and diminished memory.

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  1. 2026-07-29 03:54 UTC Biden ghostwriter tapes released after injunction
  2. 2026-07-29 03:42 UTC Biden ghostwriter tapes released after injunction
  3. 2026-07-28 20:03 UTC Biden memoir interview tapes released
  4. 2026-07-27 18:57 UTC Biden legal battle over memoir tape release
  5. 2026-07-25 21:39 UTC Biden legal battle over memoir tape release

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