2026年5月26日 / 美国东部时间晚上11:50 / 哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS）新闻
美国前总统乔·拜登已对司法部提起诉讼，试图阻止公布与他接受一名传记作者采访相关的文件，这些采访后来成为针对他处理机密文件问题的特别检察官调查的核心内容。
拜登于周二在华盛顿特区美国地区法院提起诉讼，要求阻止司法部向众议院司法委员会公布约70小时的音频文件和 transcripts（文字实录），这些内容来自他为2017年回忆录《答应我，爸爸》接受代笔人马克·兹沃尼策的采访。采访于2016年和2017年进行。
拜登及其法律顾问长期以来一直主张，这些文件不受《信息自由法》管辖。
此次诉讼是在此前三起旨在公开这些文件的《信息自由法》诉讼之后提起的。
在其中一起涉及保守派智库传统基金会的诉讼中，司法部律师本月早些时候告诉一名联邦法官，除非就该问题作出裁决，否则他们计划于6月15日将经过编辑删改的文件同时提交给该委员会和传统基金会。
2024年，在众议院共和党人试图获取这些录音后，拜登援引了行政特权。
CBS新闻已联系司法部请其就该诉讼置评。
2022年末至2023年初，机密文件在拜登位于特拉华州威尔明顿的家中，以及他在华盛顿特区宾夕法尼亚拜登外交与全球参与中心的前私人办公室被发现。
2023年1月，时任司法部长梅里克·加兰任命特别检察官罗伯特·赫尔，调查拜登是否不当处理敏感文件。
2024年2月，经过一年的调查，赫尔发布了一份345页的报告，认定尽管“拜登在副总统任期结束后以私人公民身份故意留存并披露了机密材料”，但没有足够证据对其提起刑事指控。
赫尔的调查团队共采访了147人，其中包括拜登。
在赫尔作出调查结果后，以及拜登剩余的白宫任期内，司法部拒绝了共和党议员公布拜登接受赫尔采访的音频的请求，尽管Axios在2025年5月获取并发布了其中的片段。
在周二的动议中，拜登的律师辩称，特朗普政府时期的司法部已“转变”了对公布这些文件的立场。
“2026年2月，司法部未就其180度大转弯给出任何正式解释，便通知拜登总统打算将音频录音和文字实录提交给《信息自由法》诉讼中的原告，”动议中写道。
针对拜登的调查与另一项针对特朗普总统的机密文件调查同期进行，后者始于2022年8月司法部搜查特朗普的海湖庄园并查获带有机密标识的白宫文件。
特朗普随后因多项不当处理机密文件的指控被联邦起诉，但2024年7月一名法官以该案特别检察官杰克·史密斯任命非法为由驳回了所有指控。今年2月，同一名法官阻止公布史密斯报告中涉及特朗普涉嫌不当处理敏感政府文件的部分内容。
周二深夜，特朗普在Truth Social平台发帖回应拜登的诉讼，称拜登是“腐败政客”。
Biden sues Justice Department to block release of audio files from biographer interviews
May 26, 2026 / 11:50 PM EDT / CBS News
Former President Joe Biden has filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department seeking to block the release of files related to interviews he conducted with a biographer that later became a central part of a special counsel investigation into his handling of classified documents.
Biden’s lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeks to block the Justice Department from releasing about 70 hours of audio files and transcripts to the House Judiciary Committee from interviews with ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer that were used for his 2017 memoir “Promise Me, Dad.” The interviews were conducted in 2016 and 2017.
Biden and his attorneys have long maintained that the files are exempt from the Freedom of Information Act.
The suit comes after three separate Freedom of Information Act lawsuits were previously filed attempting to unseal them.
In one suit involving the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, attorneys for the Justice Department told a federal judge earlier this month they planned to release the files, with redactions, to both the committee and the Heritage Foundation on June 15 barring a ruling on the issue.
Mr. Biden asserted executive privilege over the recordings in 2024 after House Republicans attempted to access them.
CBS News has reached out to the Justice Department for comment on the complaint.
In late 2022 and early 2023, classified documents were found at Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, as well as his former private office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington, D.C.
In January 2023, special counsel Robert Hur was selected by then Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate whether Biden had mishandled sensitive documents.
In February 2024, following a year-long probe, Hur released a 345-page report in which he determined that although “Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen,” there was not enough evidence to bring criminal charges against him.
Hur’s team interviewed 147 people as part of the investigation, including Biden.
Following Hur’s ruling, and during Biden’s remaining tenure in the White House, the Justice Department refused requests from Republican lawmakers to release audio from Biden’s interview with Hur, although snippets of it were obtained and published by Axios in May 2025.
In its motion Tuesday, Biden’s attorneys argued that under the Trump administration, the Justice Department has “reversed” its position on releasing those files.
“In February 2026, without any formal explanation for its about-face, the Department notified President Biden of its intention to release the audio recordings and transcripts to the plaintiffs in the FOIA Action,” the motion reads.
The investigation into Mr. Biden overlapped with a separate classified documents investigation into President Trump that began when the Justice Department searched Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in August 2022, seizing White House documents with classified markings.
Mr. Trump was subsequently federally charged with several dozen counts accusing him of mishandling classified documents, but those charges were dismissed in July 2024 when a judge determined that the special counsel in that case, Jack Smith, had been unlawfully appointed. In February, that same judge blocked the release of the portion of Smith’s report that addressed Trump’s alleged mishandling of sensitive government documents.
Late Tuesday night, Mr. Trump called Biden a “Crooked Politician” in a Truth Social post in response to Biden’s lawsuit.
