Posted on 01/18/2023 1:49:47 PM PST by nickcarraway
Given the opportunity to search President Joe Biden’s office and residences, the Department of Justice declined to do so, The Wall Street Journal reports. Instead, it allowed potentially uncleared and unnamed private counsel to search for classified material after the discovery of the highly classified documents in the Penn Biden Center office. It was a decision that could benefit Biden greatly, but at a considerable cost to the department itself.
If true, the decision raises additional questions over the independence of top law enforcement personnel. This follows a litany of controversies involving both Donald Trump and Biden where the FBI and DOJ have been accused of political bias and unequal treatment. While the FBI recently denounced critics as “conspiracy theorists,” the record of inexplicable decisions continues to grow by the day.
There is no plausible reason why, given the chance, the Justice Department would not want to conduct a national security search itself. After Nov. 2, the Justice Department was aware that material at the top secret or higher levels was discovered in a closet in the Penn Biden Center. It was also aware that the material may have been moved over the course of six years and that other material could be in other unsecured locations. Nevertheless, it reportedly opted to allow uncleared attorneys to search for additional classified material under a type of “look but please don’t read” edict.
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Opportunity to search President Joe Biden’s office and residences, the Department of Justice declined to do so.
Lenin lesson #3
Did you find anything in President Biden’s storage that might be classified? Sorry, we can’t answer that, attorney client privilege you know.
like DOJ would be any more honest in what they found... makes no difference
Its pretty hard to polish a turd
Why not. He wants to let the Iranians inspect themselves.
That only covers communications, not facts.
THE FIX IS IN-———
Joe Biden is an unethical leftist. The Justice Department exists to protect unethical leftists. There's your "plausible reason."
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