Posted on 02/08/2024 7:12:41 PM PST by Rummyfan
Without a doubt.
I would agree.
Fact check: Biden makes three false claims about his handling of classified information
By Daniel Dale, CNN.com , Fri February 9, 2024
President Joe Biden gave a press conference Thursday night after the release of a report from special counsel Robert Hur, who announced that Biden would not face charges over his handling of classified information from prior to his presidency.
Biden was combative, forcefully rejecting Hur’s claims that he has a poor memory. But the president was also repeatedly inaccurate, making three claims that were clearly contradicted by Hur’s report.
Here is a fact check.
Biden said: “All the stuff that was in my home was in filing cabinets that were either locked or able to be locked.”
Facts First: Biden’s claim is not true. The special counsel’s report says that while some of the classified documents were found in cabinet drawers in Biden’s Delaware home, other classified documents, about Afghanistan, were found in an “unsealed” and “badly damaged” box sitting in his garage alongside an assortment of other items the special counsel described as “household detritus.” The report includes a photo of the box.
Hur wrote that investigators looked into the possibility that the Afghanistan-related documents found in the box were previously stored in a filing cabinet when Biden lived in a rented home in Virginia before moving out in 2019. Hur called that line of inquiry “inconclusive.” Regardless, Biden’s Thursday claim that “all” of the documents in his home were in locked or lockable filing cabinets is not true of his current home.
According to the special counsel, even classified documents Biden was storing elsewhere in his home were insufficiently secure. Hur wrote that Biden notebooks containing classified information from his vice presidency were found by investigators in “unlocked drawers in the office and basement den” of the home. Hur wrote that Biden “should have known” that as a private citizen as of 2017, “he was not permitted to keep handwritten notes about the President’s Daily Brief and other classified information in unlocked drawers in his home.”
The classification level of the documents Biden had in his possession
Biden claimed of the documents he possessed: “None of it was high classified. It didn’t have any of that red stuff on it, you know what I mean, around the corners? None of that.”
Facts First: Biden’s claim that none of the classified material found in his possession was highly classified is false, according to details provided by the special counsel. Hur reported the discovery of documents in Biden’s possession that had markings identifying them as “Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information,” a very high level of classification – plus handwritten notebooks from Biden’s time as vice president that weren’t marked as classified but that “contain information that remains classified up to the Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information level.”
It’s not clear whether any of the marked classified documents found in Biden’s possession had the colored borders seen on some of the marked classified documents found in Trump’s possession, which is what Biden appeared to be referring to when he spoke about “that red stuff…around the corners.” Regardless, Hur explained at length that some of the documents were marked as Top Secretand some with other notations identifying them as highly classified.
For example, Hur wrote, the open box in Biden’s garage contained an Afghanistan-related memo from the National Security Adviser to President Barack Obama in 2009 marked “TOP SECRET/SCI” (Sensitive Compartmented Information). Hur wrote that experts in the intelligence community said the document contains “highly sensitive information about the military programs of the United States and a foreign government. The unauthorized disclosure of this information, both today and in 2017 when Mr. Biden was no longer vice president, reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security.”
Hur wrote that the box in the garage contained another 2009 memo from the National Security Adviser to Obama marked “TOP SECRET WITH TOP SECRET/NOFORN/CODEWORD ATTACHMENTS” with attachments, one of which was marked “TOP SECRET//HUMINT/COMINT//ORCON/NOFORN//FISA.
”Hur wrote that experts said “portions of this document contain national defense information about sensitive intelligence sources and methods.”
In addition, Hur wrote that notebooks with handwritten notes Biden took during his vice presidency contained information on “U.S. intelligence sources, methods, and capabilities,” “U.S. intelligence activities” and “the activities of foreign intelligence services,” among other things. Hur wrote that when investigators looked into a sampling of 37 excerpts from Biden’s handwritten materials that appeared to be classified, they found that “eight are Top Secret with Sensitive Compartmented Information, seven of which include information concerning human intelligence sources,” while six are Top Secret alone, 21 Secret and two Confidential.
“Mr. Biden wrote down obviously sensitive information discussed during intelligence briefings with then President Obama and meetings in the White House Situation Room about matters of national security and military and foreign policy,” Hur wrote.
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She enjoys being the First Lady. If Joe has to quit, she faces returning to Delaware with him and his care is all on her. At least now she has a staff and several perks.
It’s possible…
I honestly think folks have figured this out.
I don’t think she would win. Is she did, it would be a tragic end of our nation.
“…if you an keep it.”
The elderly man with a poor memory could never be used by a target or defendant in a federal case as a defense.
They have allowed demented and the mentally regarded to stand trial and appear in court.
If there was such a question as to his ability to appear in front of a jury, the DOJ needs to obtain a neurological and psychiatric consultation for his fitness to stand trial.
You don’t dismiss an investigation because the target is impaired. At the very least a determination is made as to the merits of the investigation and whether there’s enough evidence for indictments. Then, determine whether defendant can be put on stand.
The elderly man with a poor memory could never be used by a target or defendant in a federal case as a defense.
They have allowed demented and the mentally regarded to stand trial and appear in court.
If there was such a question as to his ability to appear in front of a jury, the DOJ needs to obtain a neurological and psychiatric consultation for his fitness to stand trial.
You don’t dismiss an investigation because the target is impaired. At the very least a determination is made as to the merits of the investigation and whether there’s enough evidence for indictments. Then, determine whether defendant can be put on stand.
I will not listen to a single word that emanates from that sh*thole the man speaks with. He is corrupt, perverted, senile, and I would very much like to see him meet Francois Mitterand soon.
The world will be a better place when that horrible bag of sh*t is worm food.
I also never listen to that idiot raggedy Ann affirmative action liar\idiot who speaks for him to the press.
A professor I knew claimed that the only time it is appropriate for someone with a Ph.D. to refer to himself as “Dr.” would be if he has a friend in the hospital and wants to call to see how he is doing.
Of course people have figured it out. That’s why the Dems would run her. It’s politics 101.
On Instagram someone ran a poll over a FoxNews report of
plans for Michelle to run. The idea was called a real game
changer.
The poster set up a poll to see how the viewers felt
about it.
Trump 89%
Michelle 11%
On Fox, yes. Not throughout the country.
But it CAN be used to oust him from power!
At this point ... he don’t know! :)
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