Posted on 05/01/2020 7:37:48 AM PDT by hotsteppa
The National Archives and Records Administration on Friday disputed former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that the record of a sexual harassment complaint allegedly made by former staffer Tara Reade would be in its possession.
Nicole Einbinder ✔ @NicoleEinbinder Joe Biden said that Tara Reade's complaint could only be at the National Archives, at what was then called the Office of Fair Employment Practices. But, a National Archives spokesperson told me that they do not hold records from that office.
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Joe Biden: “I strongly deny these allegations, and I hereby demand the release of all records from the Nuremberg trials to prove my innocence. I will even demand the release of the Roman records of the trial of Jesus Christ under Pontius Pilate, too. I will leave no stone unturned!”
But c’mon, you have to applaud the clever approach Joe took here, directing investigators on a wild goose chase. I guess he thought that no one would follow up.
In better times for Joe, the press would say, “Well, there it is! Case closed!”
any such records were fed into the shredder long ago.
If Reade made an official complaint, wouldn’t she have a record of it?
I know I would.
The Breibart article is poorly written, and I am not following:
Did Biden say that the any complaint would be on file with the national archives and since the national archives does not have the complaint it never happened?
Did Biden say that if the complaint does exist that it would be on file with the national archives and those records are sealed?
Is Breitbart claiming that the complaint, if any, would be filed in a different office, and those records are sealed for 50 years?
Is Breitbart claiming that Slow Joe has the right to release the sealed records?
Breitbart really needs to hire high school graduates to write these articles.
I worked in the Senate in the 1980s. There was no place where a “formal complaint” of this type could be filed. Every Senate office was basically a sovereign fiefdom, with its own rules and almost no interference from the Senate as a whole.
I personally knew a young woman who was hired as a receptionist and fired days later because the senator (a woman) did not like the way she sounded on the phone. The employee, who had moved to DC for the job, was devastated, and had absolutely no recourse -— could not even file a complaint.
It was not until 1995, when the GOP’s so-called Contract with America was implemented, that there was any process for complaints. Even then, the system that was set up (and still exists) does not allow real investigations, but forces the alleged victim into counseling and negotiation with the accused senator.
In the end, if the senator stonewalls and the alleged victim will not negotiate a (secret) settlement, there is no process for determining guilt and no way to punish any wrongdoing.
As usual, the powerful win and the powerless are victimized. And now it’s happening all over again.
Someone’s spinning a yarn, but why would personnel records go with Biden’s papers? Legally they’re federal employees and not Biden employees and wouldn’t any complaint be handled like a personnel matter? I would think that any record retention requirements would lie with the government. They’ve got to be somewhere.
Quite a few people on twitter have changed their name or added to it with; “Joe’s rapey finger”
;-)
Announce if a complaint exists it would be at “X”, knowing that’s untrue.
Make a big public expose’ about opening it up and setting off flares and fireworks how the complaint is not there (knowing it wouldn’t be).
Proclaim the complaint is a total fabrication (which it isn’t)
Okay, so why has no one brought up the Sex harassment slush fund Congress kept? If Congress had this fund for years, don’t you think this would make all claims, 27 years ago, worth hearing about? Yeah, people need to check out the Slush Fund records rather than looking at the records from the National Archive.
In 2012, there were 12 sexual harassment cases that were settled for a sum of over $400K. Over 260 settlements took place between 1993 and 2017. These reported events and settlements were kept confidential from the the tax-paying public. This would be the first place to check!
Sandy Berger stuffed the records down his pants on his way out of the Archives building.
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