Posted on 01/13/2023 4:35:54 PM PST by bitt
There will be much to chew on as the criminal investigation of President Biden by the newly appointed special counsel, Robert Hur, unfolds. For now, my question is: Have we already, in effect, witnessed a guilty plea?
In announcing Hur’s appointment, Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland laid out the facts of the case that drove him to the decision. Biden, while he was a private citizen after the conclusion of his term as vice president, retained batches of classified information in unauthorized locations.
That is enough evidence of a federal penal offense to warrant a criminal investigation and potential prosecution — which is what’s necessary under Department of Justice regs to trigger the appointment of a special counsel.
The reaction to the special counsel appointment by Richard Sauber, the lawyer Biden has brought into the White House to help deal with investigations, was remarkable. He said the president was confident that the special counsel investigation would find that the documents in question were “inadvertently misplaced.”
That’s not a defense to a charge of mishandling classified information. It is tantamount to an admission of guilt. For conviction, federal law requires prosecutors to establish that the defendant was grossly negligent. There is no need to prove that an accused was trying to harm the United States; just that he was trusted with classified information and carelessly flouted the standards for safeguarding it.
So it appears that Biden is not challenging that the documents were classified, that the locations in which he kept them were not authorized, and that he failed to keep track of them. Why have an investigation when all the elements of the offense are established?
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Why do we assume the documents are earlier than his time as a VP?
Fixed it.
The classified documents will be used by the Ds to keep Bidumb from running for reelection.
RE: Biden Already Admitted Guilt
Biden: They tell me I forget a lot of things lately. True. But somebody forgot to Mirandize me. The jurors won’t be allowed to hear anything I said, admitted or recorded. All inadmissable. See you all in Antigua, by Zoom.
What authority was there for him to have these documents at all? Even as Vice President he was not authorized to have these documents,PERIOD! How did they get to his house? How did they get to Univ. of Pennsylvania?
Who is this Chinese woman who Hunter hired?
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