Special Counsel Aims to Turn Down Heat on Biden Report. Congress May Have Other Ideas. (chicom bribes)

Wall Street Journal via MSN ^ | 3/10/24 | C. Ryan Barber

[Libloather]

WASHINGTON - Robert Hur will arrive on Capitol Hill this week intent on turning down the political temperature surrounding his report on President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents, according to people familiar with his preparations.

That won’t be easy.

Hur, the special counsel appointed early last year to look into the Biden documents case, is expected to face intense grilling from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle Tuesday when he appears before the House Judiciary Committee, where the president’s allies are bracing for a new round of questions about Biden’s mental acuity.

In a 345-page report last month, Hur, a former Trump-appointed U.S. attorney, found that no criminal charges were warranted against Biden over classified documents found at his home and an office he used following his vice presidency. But the report portrayed Biden as forgetful during his two-day interview with Hur’s team and said that the president, at any trial, would likely have presented himself as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

That hit a nerve with the 81-year-old Biden and produced days of unflattering headlines for his re-election campaign as he faced a wave of questions about his fitness for another term. Hur, meanwhile, faced intense blowback from critics who accused him of including gratuitous material in the report, such as claims that Biden didn’t remember the dates of his vice presidency or the year his son Beau died.

Of particular concern for the White House is whether Hur will provide any fresh details about his interview with Biden and the broader investigation that could fuel questions about the president’s mental acuity. Aides to Biden will be ready to push back on any new characterizations of Biden’s demeanor that they see as unfair, according to a person familiar with their strategy.

[Libloather]

Maybe Brandon should show up and give his account on how he was bribed.

[kiryandil]

and said that the president, at any trial, would likely have presented himself as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

Clown America.

Brain surgeries

In February 1988, after several episodes of increasingly severe neck pain, Biden underwent surgery to correct a leaking intracranial berry aneurysm.

While recuperating, he suffered a pulmonary embolism, a serious complication.

After a second aneurysm was surgically repaired in May,

Biden's recuperation kept him away from the Senate for seven months.

Eff our skeezy banana republic.

[Eagles6]

All right, then.
Be charged and face the music, Brandon.

[Sacajaweau]

At least Trump was President...and had certain rights and they were secured.

Biden had "0" right to have them and they were treated like garbage.

[Liz]

Biden’s knee-jerk denials shows he exists in a Me-first self-serving world that does not acknowledge:
<><>there are news outlets out there,
<><>sentient human beings taking it all in.......
<><>and a vast global internet that records everything and forgets nothing.

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Hur “described the president as an “elderly man with a poor memory.”

Hur also definitively reported that Biden, “knowingly and willfully retained and exposed classified documents”.

I would hope that the lawyers on the Committee focus on the latter because that is “a reasonable articulation of a violation of the Law.”

[Liz]

Special counsel Hur’s report should have emphasized that Biden’s interview w/
Hur began the day after a huge international incident......the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

Interesting that Biden had the time to sit for the Hur interview in the aftermath of a major incident w/ major diplomatic and military implications that would tie up a functioning president 24/7.

Clearly Biden’s priorities are questionable. He is not a fully
functioning president of the United States in any realistic capacity.

[Fraxinus]

Turn down the heat? How?

I still remain convinced that Hur had orders not to say that Biden was chargeable, but found evidence of blatant disregard of any classified document handling procedure. Thus he said Biden was not chargeable in terms that the general public would interpret as non-compos mentis, causing everyone who is not a rabid partisan democrat to ask how would he be qualified to be president?

[Liz]

Hur’s report indicated what a complete disaster Biden
was WRT his keeping and not returning classified documents.

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Indictable Evidence That Upend Biden’s Claim About Classified Docs
Red State ^ | 02/12/2024 | Nick Arama
Posted on 2/12/2024, 8:52:32 PM by SeekAndFind

What’s described here is an outrage that President Donald Trump didn’t come close to. RealClear Investigations reporter Benjamin Weingarten grabbed some of the most damning and concerning parts.

Joe was cavalier with documents while he was Vice President too.
https://t.co/p5IBSj4ZbB pic.twitter.com/Na4rQTeelt— Benjamin Weingarten (@bhweingarten) February 9, 2024

He had all kinds of classified material and they appeared to have no system for recovering it. This has been a problem for years, with the “Executive Secretary Team” expressing concern in 2010 about all the classified briefing books he had not returned, and that even when things were returned, some items were missing.

https://t.co/M4w0cEUk3z pic.twitter.com/JHYLFv3W5s— Benjamin Weingarten (@bhweingarten) February 9, 2024

They were unable to determine if some of this material was ever returned. Biden He took his notebooks home with him and kept them, even though they had classified materials in them. He kept them in unsecured locations.

Joe Biden attended the Hillary Clinton School of Classified Document Handling
https://t.co/gdetYVkFvd pic.twitter.com/OM1pBAoW61— Benjamin Weingarten (@bhweingarten) February 9, 2024

According to the report, Biden read portions of his notebook that contained classified information up to the Secret Level. Totally cool and totally legal when Joe Biden does it

https://t.co/V2TugTJC2q pic.twitter.com/ygALoNdPcN— Benjamin Weingarten (@bhweingarten) February 12, 2024

“During his interview with our office, Mr. Biden said he did not remember finding marked classified documents at any time after the end of the Obama administration and before he was elected President...” False statement, or senility? https://t.co/7GHzto8qsA— Benjamin Weingarten (@bhweingarten) February 12, 2024

Here’s another place where it looks like Biden told the Special Counsel’s team something that wasn’t true. “During his interview with our office, Mr. Biden said he did not remember finding marked classified documents at any time after the end of the Obama administration and before he was elected President...”

False statement, or senility?
https://t.co/7GHzto8qsA— Benjamin Weingarten (@bhweingarten) February 12, 2024

But of course, given the story about his discussions with the ghostwriter, that appears to be false. Why is that not being pursued as a false statement? The “poor memory” defense?

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[Bullish]

Yady yady yada yada... We all know what’s gonna’ happen with Hur... Nothing.

We’ve been through this how many times now?

[Liz]

WH complained to DOJ for including Biden’s memory issues
BEFORE special counsel Hur report was released
Daily Mail ^ | 2/15/24 | Charlie Spiering
Posted on 2/16/2024, 12:24:11 AM by Libloather

The White House sent an angry letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland a day before the Special Counsel report on President Joe Biden’s mishandling of classified information was released. White House Counsel Ed Siskel complained in a letter on February 7 that Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report included ‘multiple denigrating statements’ about Biden’s memory. Details of the White House letters between Justice Department officials were first published by Politico.

‘A global and pejorative judgment on the President’s powers of recollection in general is uncalled for and unfounded,’ the letter read. The latest development in the special counsel saga as Congress confirmed Hur will testify on Capitol Hill on March 12 in a blockbuster experience that could spell more trouble for Biden.

Siskel said Hur ‘openly, obviously, and blatantly’ violated Department policy and practices by commenting on Biden’s memory and demeanor during the interview. The letter also noted that Biden’s five-hour interview with the Special Counsel took place after the ‘grave international crisis’ of the October 7 terrorist attacks on Israel, which he argued was ‘crucial context’ for Biden’s hesitant answers.

The letters reveal the White House effort to influence the report before it’s release, as they viewed it as politically damaging for the president. The Justice Department defended Hur, as Associate Deputy Attorney General Bradley Weinsheimer told the president’s lawyers in a letter that the report was ‘consistent with legal requirements and Department policy.’

The White House pushed back sharply against the Justice Department after the report was released, which culminated in the president himself angrily condemning Hur for reporting that Biden ‘did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died.’ ‘How the hell dare he raise that,’ Biden yelled during a press conference on Tuesday.(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...

[Lazamataz]

I’m unsure how you lower the temperature once you are at zero Kelvin.

[Liz]

Team Biden Is Hoping Nobody Notices This Revelation From Special Counsel Hur’s Report
Daily Caller ^ | February 11, 2024 | Peter Roff
Posted on 2/12/2024, 6:31:53 AM by Red Badger

They say success in politics has much to do with timing. Hitting the right issue in the right way at the right moment can make a campaign. Failing to do so can break it. If that’s true, then the person at the Biden re-elect who hit “send” on a fundraising email Thursday, subject line “Do you remember how you felt?,” while the president was in the middle of an impromptu press conference denying he had problems with mental acuity may want to start looking for another job.

If there was ever an example of bad timing, that’s it. How can one read something like that and not think, “It’s not a question of my remembering. Does Biden?” It stepped totally on the message. Fortunately for Biden and his hopes for a second term, the late-night comedians who define political humor didn’t catch on to this fast enough to get it into their monologues — even though there’s nothing all that funny about it.

Nonetheless, by focusing on what special counsel Robert Hur wrote about Biden’s failing memory in his report on his mishandling of confidential government files dating from his time as vice president, they missed the more significant nugget in Hur’s explanation of why there would be no indictment.

Remember, the Biden Justice Department indicted former President Donald J. Trump over the same issue. The outcomes were different, Hur explained, not just because Biden couldn’t remember things but because he cooperated with the investigation while Trump didn’t.

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The former president was not afforded the same luxury as his predecessors. His suggestion the Biden Justice Department rushed the case into court to damage him politically now looks stronger.

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If Biden did any of the things with classified materials that Trump is accused of doing — and Hur’s report makes it pretty clear he did — then the DOJ either erred in not moving forward with an indictment or was wrong to have indicted Trump. Or at least that’s a more substantial argument today than it was when the week began.

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A former UPI senior political writer and U.S. News and World Report columnist, Peter Roff is a senior fellow at several public policy organizations.

[pas]

He will claim that with a DC jury he would have no hope of a conviction. At the same time Jack Smith is arguing that Trump will get a fair shake.

[Liz]

Even more outrageous, Hur is protecting the Biden Crime Family
<><>Biden’s family members had to know he had TS and Secret documents laying around.
<><>This had been going on since Biden was a Senator.
<><>Hur did everything he could not to prosecute the Biden family.
<><>Hur even described an “Espionage Ring,” and yet he refuses to prosecute anyone.
<><>Hur’s story that innocent Joe Biden is “incompetent” will disappear
<><>he is loathe to prosecute a Biden

Hur didn’t even BOTHER to review the documents removed by Joe Biden’s lawyers.
HOW MUCH DAMAGE DID THE BIDENS DO TO AMERICA?
<><>an entire nation was put at risk
<><>the safety and security pf American families was violated by an “Espionage Ring.”

Why is the PRESS not asking these questions?

[Recompennation]

That’s right, turn down the heat, afterall he is seeking political office and has been treated like he was president for over 3 years now.
Spit!
Jail joe and coup conspeerators , he is not real president. The uniparty is our enemy.

[Liz]

THE FAMILY BUSINESS---Biden's niece (an Obama Treasury
employee) had sensitive US govt information to peddle.

Casey Owens is now a Starbuck’s VP according to Linked in.

Biden’s niece Casey Owens - his sister’s child - aided and abetted Hunter’s influence peddling schemes which benefited the Biden family’s wealth accumulation, swilling at the public trough.

Tax-paid Casey Owens' official US govt trip to China was with Obama’s US Treasury delegation, “The US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue team,” led by then-Treasury Secy Timothy Geithner.

During the visit, tax-paid Owens was privy to sensitive US govt information WRT China’s multi billion dollar sovereign wealth fund.

Tax-paid Owens blithely passed on sensitive govt info to opportunistic influence-peddler Hunter Biden.

[sopo]

Thanks, sounds like a devastating sequence that can chew the report up in 5 minute chunks allotted to the congressmen, if they just don’t get into waving papers around; let the dems do that. Meanwhile, this article never mentions the biggest difference between Trump and Biden on classified documents, Senators, VP never allowed to take them.

[sopo]

Elias settled that, first time he’s ever told the truth:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4221897/posts

[Liz]

And b/c that’s true.......VP Biden was not entitled
to have access to classified documents....but Obama was.

Why did Obama give Biden top secret documents?

[cuz1961]

Brandon should show up and give his account on how he was bribed. .