Washington — Attorney General Merrick Garland dismisses suggestions that he should have altered portions of former special counsel Robert Hur’s report about President Biden’s handling of classified records, saying the notion that he would censor Hur’s findings was “absurd.”
“The idea that an attorney general would edit or redact or censor the special counsel’s explanation for why the special counsel reached the decision the special counsel did — that’s absurd,” Garland said at the Justice Department on Thursday, his first public comment since Hur was released his report in February.
His comments are notable since Garland — a former federal