which alleged President Joe Biden was suffering memory lapses.
Biden does not face criminal charges following the 15-month investigation into his handling of classified documents...
...but special counsel Robert Hur's depiction of him as an 'elderly man with poor memory' could hurt him politically.
"The special counsel's assignment when he was appointed was to determine whether any criminal conduct occurred. He found it didn't..."
White House spokesperson Ian Sams raised questions about Hur's judgement on Friday...
calling the report 'inappropriate' and 'gratuitous.'
"They have denigrated the rule of law for political purposes [FLASH] when the inevitable conclusion is that the facts and the evidence don't support any charges, you're left to wonder why this report spends time making gratuitous and inappropriate criticisms of the president."
Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday called the report politically motivated.
"...so the way that the president's demeanor in that report was characterized, could not be more wrong on the facts [FLASH] we should expect that there would be a higher level of integrity than what we saw."
Biden himself hit back on Thursday, defending his memory...
and also voicing anger at the special counsel's comment that he couldn't remember the date of his son's death.
Beau Biden died in 2015 after battling brain cancer.
"How in the hell dare he raise that? Frankly when I was asked the question I thought to myself: 'Was it any of their damn business?'"
Biden gave the interviews that the special counsel report was based on Oct. 8 and 9, after organizing the U.S. response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel.
Sams announced that Biden has ordered establishment of a task force to review the handling of classified information during the transition period between a president and his successor.
