2026年3月4日 / 美国东部时间下午6:04 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
据知情人士向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻透露，美国检察官办公室（由珍妮·皮罗领导）的联邦检察官已终止对前总统乔·拜登及其助手是否非法使用自动签名笔（autopen）签发赦免令的刑事调查。
两名消息人士证实了该调查的存在，其中一人向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻表示，该调查现已关闭，原因是检察官始终未能找到合法依据继续推进此案。哥伦比亚广播公司新闻尚未确定案件确切的结案时间。
去年6月，特朗普总统下令调查拜登政府是否使用自动签名机签署关键总统文件（如赦免令）——这一调查是在特朗普声称其前任的赦免令非法数月之后发起的。
特朗普在一份备忘录中指示司法部长帕姆·邦迪和白宫法律顾问调查他所谓的“滥用总统签名权力以掩盖拜登认知衰退”的“阴谋”。
该命令引用了拜登的多项行政行为，包括赦免令和司法任命，并声称“对决策过程以及拜登对以其名义采取的这些行动的知情程度存在严重质疑。”
备忘录指出，如果拜登的顾问“秘密使用机械签名笔”，将“对众多行政行为的合法性和有效性产生影响”。
拜登当时称这些指控是虚假的，“不过是唐纳德·特朗普和国会共和党人的干扰”。
此次关闭的自动签名笔调查，是皮罗办公室近几个月来对特朗普政治对手提起诉讼的几次失败尝试之一。
此前，哥伦比亚广播公司新闻曾报道，最近一个大陪审团拒绝起诉六名民主党议员，理由是他们去年秋天发布的视频中敦促军人拒绝非法命令，违反了法律。在此案中，没有一名大陪审员投票支持起诉，这极不寻常。
皮罗办公室还试图就美联储的翻新工程以及美联储主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔在国会作证时就这些翻新工程发表的评论发出传票。据哥伦比亚广播公司新闻此前报道，美联储正在暗中试图撤销这些传票，在闭门法律诉讼中，由于大陪审团保密规则，该诉讼仍处于密封状态。
《纽约时报》率先报道了自动签名笔审查的关闭。哥伦比亚广播公司新闻已请求司法部置评。
Probe into autopen use by Biden and aides closed by D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office, source says
March 4, 2026 / 6:04 PM EST / CBS News
Federal prosecutors in U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office are dropping a criminal probe into whether former President Joe Biden and his aides unlawfully used an autopen to issue pardons, a person briefed on the matter told CBS News.
Two sources confirmed the existence of the probe, with one telling CBS News that the matter has since been closed because prosecutors were never able to find a legal hook to be able to pursue the matter further. CBS News has not determined precisely when the case ended.
Last June, President Trump ordered an investigation into whether the Biden administration used an autopen machine to sign key presidential documents like pardons — months after Mr. Trump had claimed his predecessor’s pardons were illegitimate.
Mr. Trump told Attorney General Pam Bondi and the White House counsel in a memo to probe what he claimed was a “conspiracy” to “abuse the power of Presidential signatures through the use of an autopen to conceal Biden’s cognitive decline.”
The order cited a number of executive actions by Biden, including pardons and judicial appointments, and argued “there are serious doubts as to the decision making process and even the degree of Biden’s awareness of these actions being taken in his name.”
It suggested that if Biden’s advisers “secretly used the mechanical signature pen,” it would “have implications for the legality and validity of numerous executive actions.”
Biden at the time called the attacks false and “nothing more than a distraction by Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans.”
The closed autopen probe represents one of several failed attempts in recent months by Pirro’s office to pursue cases against Mr. Trump’s political enemies.
Recently, a grand jury also refused to indict six Democratic lawmakers over charges they violated the law by urging military service members to reject unlawful orders in a video they released last fall, CBS previously reported. In that matter, not a single grand juror voted in favor of an indictment, which is highly unusual.
Pirro’s office has also sought to subpoena records from the Federal Reserve over its renovations and comments that Chairman Jerome Powell made about those renovations in testimony before Congress. The Federal Reserve is quietly seeking to quash those subpoenas, in a closed-door legal fight that remains under seal due to grand jury secrecy rules, CBS News previously reported.
The New York Times first reported on the closure of the autopen review. CBS News has asked for comment from the Justice Department.
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