The Oversight Project filed a FOIA request in 2024 for audio recordings of Joe Biden and his ghostwriter Mark Wanitzer.

Posted by The Charlie Kirk Show, Jul 30, 2026Checked Nov 2, 2026

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The Charlie Kirk ShowJul 30, 2026

Sources show the Oversight Project, an arm of the Heritage Foundation, sought and obtained the Biden–ghostwriter audio after Special Counsel Hur's 2024 decision, and Biden's suit against DOJ frames the release as a FOIA matter.

What we found

Supports. The Oversight Project sued to obtain the Biden–ghostwriter tapes after Special Counsel Robert Hur decided in 2024 not to charge Biden, and the group later released about three hours of audio and 117 pages of transcripts.[1][3]

Supports. The dispute over the recordings was litigated as a FOIA matter, with Biden's lawsuit arguing the tapes should be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act and a federal judge ruling under FOIA's presumption of disclosure.[4][5]

Context. The ghostwriter is named Mark Lewis Zwonitzer in the AP and other reports; the claim's spelling 'Wanitzer' appears in the post itself and is a spelling variant of the same person, not a different referent.[1][2][6]

Context. No source explicitly dates a FOIA request itself to 2024; the sources only place the group's legal push for the tapes after the 2024 Hur decision.[1][3]