Posted on 01/12/2023 12:04:58 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The White House on Thursday said it is confident that an investigation into the discovery of classified documents will find that President Biden accidentally misplaced them.
“We are confident that a thorough review will show that these documents were inadvertently misplaced, and the President and his lawyers acted promptly upon discovery of this mistake,” Richard Sauber, special counsel to the president, said in a statement.
Sauber added that the White House has “cooperated closely with the Justice Department throughout its review” and “will continue that cooperation with the Special Counsel.”
The statement comes after Attorney General Merrick Garland announced earlier Thursday that he would appointed Robert Hur as special counsel to investigate the discovery of classified documents at an office once belonging to Biden and at his Wilmington home. Hur, a Trump appointee who served as the U.S. attorney in Maryland, will return to the department to conduct the investigation.
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Maybe they were misplaced. Its likely not a big deal...excepting the hypocrisy of going all out after Trump .
“We are confident that a thorough review will show that these documents were inadvertently misplaced, and the President and his lawyers acted promptly upon discovery of this mistake,” Richard Sauber, special counsel to the president, said in a statement”
Question to Mr. Sauber: Why did he have and what was he doing with classified documents on the first place, since he had absolutely no legal reason to have these?
I’ve said before, DOJ does active investigations for two reasons:
one is to look for process crimes against political enemies
the other is to investigate how widespread a political scandal is, find out how knows what, put a fence around it - then suppress it.
this is the latter.
The defense is: No mens rae.
Kind of hard when he was using those docs to write his book.
Remember, Garland was nominated to the Supreme Court by Biden’s boss. It’s all one big family.
We got sand-blasted by the Media about the 'huge crime' Trump committed back in AUGUST - when Mara Lago was raided..
Somebody ought to see if they misplaced the football too.
Biden's Corvette was about to get flooded, so he used the boxes of childhood momentos of his deadbeat son to block the water instead of the boxes of his favorite son.
It was during Corvettegate that the box of secrets got misplaced as Joe tried to convince Hunter that his childhood memories weren't destroyed.
-PJ
Inadvertently misplaced? Do they mean from the secure room in Washington to a garage in Delaware...and an office in Philadelphia?
It is a defense against espionage charges. Not against ‘mishandling of classified documents’.
documents were not declassified.
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Maybe he declassified them. Playing devil’s advocate here.
Exactly! I seem to recall a young sailor that “inadvertently” posted some pics taken inside a nuc sub....and he got time in the brig... I have some familiarity with handling of classified docs (USAFSS), and this cover up is rotten. Cover up is worse than the crime.
Sloppy is still a felony.
The National Security Act of 1947’s Adjudicative Guidelines for Determining Eligibility for Access to Classified Information Guideline K (Handling of Protected Information) covers negligent handling of classified information including through ignorance or accident which, based on the specific circumstances — not the person, but the circumstances — can cause the individual’s security clearance to be revoked.
Yep, it’s serious and they want everyone to laugh it off.
“White House ‘confident’ Biden documents were ‘inadvertently misplaced”
Whatever Democrats do they are always innocent.
Situation A:
If a Democrat purposely shoots someone, media says: “Victim inadvertently shot.”
Situation B:
If a Republican burps in public, media says: “A domestic terrorist attempted a blatant racist attack on an innocent victim.
This is why we need Veterans, who know and respect responsibility for classified materials, to run for president.
As an aside, does anyone still believe that Mister Biden will run for re-election?
Should President Biden step aside, at least until the Special Counsel clears him of potential criminal wrongdoing?
The president must avoid even the appearance of doing wrong and keeping a trove of secret government documents in the boot of a Duesenberg - even in a car port - does not meet the test.
Try using that defense as an E5 or a GS 7/9/11
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