Senate Democrats support full investigation into Biden document scandal: 'Irresponsible and disturbing'

foxnews ^ | 01/21/2023

[devane617]

CNN appeared to downplay the severity of the Biden classified document scandal on Thursday, running a segment on supposedly just how common it is for government workers to misplace classified documents.

Pressure is continuing to build on President Biden and his administration as some Senate Democrats are now saying they support a full investigation into his mishandling of the classified documents found at his home and former office disclosed earlier this month.

"The reports about President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents are extremely irresponsible and disturbing. These allegations should be investigated fully," Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., told Fox News Digital on Friday.

Fox also spoke with Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., who echoed Manchin's concern.

"This news raises serious questions and the appointment of an unbiased special prosecutor to investigate the matter is the right step," Kaine said.

[Clutch Martin]

Okay it’s a setup ... let’s take that set up and nail Hitllery to the cross with it.

[mastertex]

Watch out for the Rat plan....see here while were screwing you over here.

[Georgia Girl 2]

This is the preparation for the the guy pretending to be Joe Biden to exit the Whitehouse.

[Sacajaweau]

Looks like Newsome has a clear path

You really think Brandon went to Ca because of the weather??

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

“It’s a set up!”

Yes. Flys in the face of Omertà.

[devane617]

Look what the deep state did to Hillary...made her a queen.

[bk1000]

Sure. Who gets to investigate?

[dfwgator]

They will no doubt go after Trump for the same thing: Kill two birds with one stone.

[Sacajaweau]

And you can bet Joe's prints...and Hunters...are all over them. Guess when Joe cleaned house, they missed a couple.

The proof of that is that they only found ONE in the garage at first. Then they found 5 more. Now just how would that work? Or did Joe locate the 5 (in yet another room) and add them to that cache....These people lie like hell.

The garage was locked....but those garage windows are sooooo easy to break. Hell...electronic door openers can easily do the job...

Hope someone keys his prized car the next time out.

[The Duke]

I suspect that Joey B’s mental state has deteriorated to the point that he can no longer reliably be controlled. Heck, he could get them all nuked!

[Jim Noble]

It is very difficult to see how Newsom is not the next President.

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

As soon as we were told there were documents, it was obvious this was all manufactured.

The left destoys evidence. They do not “come clean”.

The rest has been fun to watch. They can’t shoot him in broad daylight like Kennedy, so we all get free tickets to this realtime Scorsese piece.

I especially liked the part where in unison broadcast Biden’s “competence” was in question. A) like it wasn’t for his whole life. B) grounds for removal

Jill is giggling, part of the team. She’s got her money and secured her position in the enterprise.

Her meat puppet husband’s usefulness to her and the party apparatus has officially expired.

Gone by end of march.

[rivercat]

One of (at least) three reasons:
1. They want him gone.
2. They can’t prosecute Trump without throwing Joe under the bus.
3. They want to control the investigation and the narrative.

[Brilliant]

The Dems have to go after Biden on these classified docs because if they don’t then they won’t be able to go after Trump for the same reason. But there is a lesson for Republicans here. What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. If Biden goes down because of this then Trump will too, one way or another.

[Bratch]

DOJ Tells Republican Congress Not to Expect Cooperation and Thank You

January 20, 2023 | Sundance | 227 Comments

The U.S. Dept of Justice (DOJ) has sent a five-page letter to congress, copying Politico for the public distribution therein.  [SEE pdf HERE]

The snarky and passive aggressive Lawfare tone inside the letter is rather remarkable in its sanctimony and condescension.  Essentially, Main Justice is telling congressional oversight, specifically House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, not to expect any timely responses because there’s a lot going on.

Additionally, as the letter directly implies, Republican oversight is not in the favor of the current administration or DOJ and, well, in general terms, get over it – they aren’t complying.  However, feel free to initiate the formal negotiation process that will likely take several years.

From the letter to Jim Jordan,

“Your January 17 requests—made now in your position as Chairman—initiate the constitutionally mandated accommodation process. Under this process, the Legislative and Executive Branches have a constitutional obligation to negotiate in good faith to meet the informational needs of Congress while protecting the institutional interests of the Executive Branch. We look forward to beginning this process in response to your January 17 letters.” (link)

(Via Politico) –

[…] The letter, addressed to Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), acknowledges the GOP’s multiple requests for information during the last Congress but doesn’t divulge any new information. Instead, Uriarte outlines how he hopes DOJ could have a “productive relationship” with Republicans in the new Congress, as Jordan had in previous letters accused the DOJ of “stonewalling” their requests, raised the possibility of a subpoena and said the committee could resort to “compulsory practices” to obtain the requested information and documents.

It’s an early marker of DOJ’s position as Republicans pledge to probe President Joe Biden’s administration over a laundry list of issues, including with a select subpanel that has a broad mandate to investigate the federal government. Conservatives have hinted they would use that panel to try to look into certain ongoing law enforcement investigations. (read more)

I think at this point everyone outside the professional political class in the Legislative Branch knew this was going to happen.  However, the Republicans in Congress will likely pretend to be stunned by this development, Fox News Sean Hannity will be outraged by it, and then the RNC and RCCC will dispatch fundraising campaigns citing the refusal of the DOJ.   

Win, win, win… wash – rinse – repeat.

Predicting this approach was exactly why CTH said the House Subcommittee on Weaponized Government should not waste time looking for assistance, documents and or internal support from the various DC silos.  Instead, the oversight committees need to go through the formal request process (blah, blah, blah) but focus their efforts at getting documents from the private sector collaborators outside the DC silo system.

If it seems like the Democrats always know how to use power more effectively than Republicans, you would be absolutely correct.  However, few people really understand the reason for it.  So, I will repeat.

The Republicans want money.  The Democrats want power.  The Republicans use power to get money. The Democrats use money to get power.  The ideology of the Democrats drives their donor funding.  The donor funding of the Republicans drives their ideology.

This core truism carries forward beyond electoral politics and into the realm of legislative battles and oversight conflicts.  Republicans want money as their primary objective.  If the Biden administration wants to get an ideological bill passed, the Democrats simply buy the votes of Republicans (especially Senators).

As an additional outcome, Republicans in congress have no core values, no core objectives, no goals to achieve.  After all, their structural goal is money.

Give Republicans power and they don’t know what to do with it, because the voters essentially boosted the dog to catch the car… now what?

What you see in the outcome of elections is that Republicans do not have any plan for power, because it’s not the issue that takes up their intellectual time.  That’s reserved for deep analytical thoughts about how to make money from (XXX).

The Democrats know this, they know the main mission of Republicans.  Ergo, the Lawfare DOJ pats the Republicans on the head and waits for the frustrated voters to get sick of the GOP doing nothing again, and the Democrats simply wait them out.

We have been in this repetitious abuse cycle for about two decades.

Battered Conservative Syndrome is a very real thing.

There are an enormous amount of codependent enabling voters in this process.  I call them Seagull Republicans because they are voters who will fly down and defecate over anyone who complains about this reality – then they fly up to their high perches and look down their noses.

In case you missed it, the Seagull Republicans are currently aligned to support Harmeet Dhillon and Ron DeSantis.

One UniParty consisting of two wings, the RNC and the DNC.  One bird, two wings.

The GOPe priority around money is the one constant on the right wing.  But don’t worry, because the Seagulls are promising that Ron DeSantis will protect us from teh geys.

[robel]

And the results of democrats investigating democrats will be revealed in 60 years.

[libertylover]

they support a full investigation into his mishandling of the classified documents found at his home and former office disclosed earlier this month.

This statement should have been: "they support a full investigation into his mishandling of the classified documents found at his home and former office [in November but only ] disclosed earlier this month".

[deport]

One of (at least) three reasons:

**********

4th......
They want to get VP Harris in as President. She then can
serve the remainder of this term if less than two years and
be re-elected to two four year terms. IMO that’s the plan.

[Savage Beast]

Anybody who trusts a Democrat politician is a fool.

[Magnatron]

Unfortunately for both Republicans and Democrats, congressional hearings are where crimes go to die.

Most unfortunate of all, however, is the fact that we have a thoroughly corrupt DOJ that wipes their ass with the rule of law...