'Blatantly violate department policy': White House was enraged over special counsel report
White House attorneys were furious at special counsel Robert Hur's personal attacks on President Joe Biden in his report recommending against charges over the stray classified documents discovered in his possession, reported The New York Times on Thursday — and fought with the Justice Department over their inclusion.
"The lawyers said Mr. Hur’s comments 'openly, obviously and blatantly violate department policy and practice,' the letters, obtained by The New York Times, show," reported Charlie Savage. However, one day after the letters were sent and just as the DOJ was planning to release the report, "Bradley Weinsheimer — an associate deputy attorney general and the department’s senior career official, or nonpolitical appointee — wrote back rejecting their criticism."
According to Weinsheimer, the report's statements on the president "fall well within the department’s standards for public release."...


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