2026-05-27T01:19:21.605Z / 路透社
作者：黛安娜·诺瓦克·琼斯
2026年5月27日 凌晨1:19 UTC 更新于2小时前
5月26日（路透社）——美国前民主党总统乔·拜登于周二起诉美国司法部，要求阻止公布2016年至2017年间他与传记作者的私人谈话录音及文字记录。
此次诉讼在华盛顿特区联邦法院提起，距司法部计划于6月15日向美国众议院司法委员会及保守派智库传统基金会公布相关材料仅一步之遥。
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传统基金会是在时任特别检察官罗伯特·赫尔2023年调查拜登处理机密文件事件中使用这些材料后提出索要申请的。赫尔当时未提起刑事指控。
诉讼称，在唐纳德·特朗普总统就职前，司法部以《信息自由法》豁免为由拒绝了传统基金会2024年的档案调取申请。司法部随后宣布将应众议院司法委员会的请求公布相关档案，诉讼称该请求仅是为了规避禁止公布这些材料的联邦法律。
诉讼请求法院认定众议院司法委员会的请求属于借口且无效，并永久禁止向该委员会公布相关材料。
美国司法部代表未立即回应置评请求。
这些录音录制于拜登家中，是其2017年回忆录《答应我，爸爸：充满希望、艰辛与目标的一年》创作过程的一部分，该书详述了拜登在长子博伊对抗脑癌期间决定参选总统的经过。
本月早些时候，拜登申请介入传统基金会针对司法部的相关档案诉讼。根据法庭记录，上周一名法官允许拜登加入该案，但禁止他就众议院司法委员会调取材料的请求提出相关主张。
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Former President Biden sues DOJ over release of interview audio
2026-05-27T01:19:21.605Z / Reuters
By Diana Novak Jones
May 27, 2026 1:19 AM UTC Updated 2 hours ago
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May 26 (Reuters) – Former Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden sued the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday, seeking to bar the release of audio recordings and transcripts of private conversations with his biographer in 2016 and 2017.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington D.C., comes ahead of the department’s planned June 15 release of the materials to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee and the conservative Heritage Foundation.
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The foundation sought them after they were used as part of then-Special Counsel Robert Hur’s 2023 investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents. Hur declined to bring criminal charges.
The department fought the Heritage Foundation’s 2024 request for the records as exempt from the Freedom of Information Act until President Donald Trump took office, the lawsuit claims. It announced it would be releasing the records in response to the committee’s request, which the lawsuit claims is meant only to skirt federal law barring their release.
The lawsuit asks the court to declare the committee’s request pretextual and invalid, and permanently bar the release of the records to the committee.
Representatives for the Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The recordings, made in Biden’s home, were part of the writing process for his 2017 memoir, “Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose,” which detailed Biden’s decision to pursue the presidency while his eldest son Beau fought brain cancer.
Earlier this month, Biden sought to intervene in the Heritage Foundation’s lawsuit against the Justice Department over the materials. Last week, a judge allowed Biden to join the case but barred him from pursuing claims about the committee’s request for the materials, according to court records.
Reporting by Diana Novak Jones; Editing by Lincoln Feast.
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