Hunter Biden and Joe's brother hold ALL the cards in this deal. No doubt they've had a chat with the big guy.
1 posted on
01/21/2023 6:15:37 AM PST by
devane617
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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.
35 posted on
01/21/2023 7:08:41 AM PST by
Bratch
To: devane617
And the results of democrats investigating democrats will be revealed in 60 years.
36 posted on
01/21/2023 7:12:45 AM PST by
robel
To: devane617
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".
37 posted on
01/21/2023 7:12:53 AM PST by
libertylover
(Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
To: devane617
Anybody who trusts a Democrat politician is a fool.
39 posted on
01/21/2023 7:14:38 AM PST by
Savage Beast
(Americans DESPISE the corrupt elites, their media toadies and their corruption of the US government!)
To: devane617
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...
To: devane617
It appears rumors that senior rats want to ease FJB away from running in 2024 are true. How they will deal with the laughing hyena will be interesting.
41 posted on
01/21/2023 7:22:11 AM PST by
upchuck
(When you never took the vaccine or boosters: Still alive and healthy with no chance of side effects)
To: devane617
“…Irresponsible and disturbing..”
… but destroying the economy and our southern border isn’t???
44 posted on
01/21/2023 7:26:33 AM PST by
joethedrummer
(We can't vote our way out of this, folks..)
To: devane617
Democrat puppet masters: “Time to go, Joe.” (No second term for YOU!)
46 posted on
01/21/2023 7:34:40 AM PST by
faucetman
(Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
To: devane617
If the only way to get trump is throw joe under the bus. Look out bus.
48 posted on
01/21/2023 7:41:33 AM PST by
pas
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For anyone whoever handled Top Secret, SCI, or Codeword documents, it is NOT common to be careless and apathetic in handling these documents or information.
There are three demographics that handle these documents, military, contractors, and politicians/elected officials/staffers.
In the first two groups, proper handling is paramount. Screw up, intentionally or not, and it’s court martial or losing a defense contract.
Where there is a common area of failure and compromise, it is in the last group.
Politicians and their staffers are commonly ignorant about the gravity of classified data, and treat it more like gossip. If passing it on to media or lobbyists or other entities will gain political favor or advantage or scandalize their political opponents, they will pass it on.
Likewise, they will see no importance in going to the effort to protect those documents. Let them sit on an unattended desk, take them home, stick them in a garage, use them in a letter, talk about them at happy hour, give them to The NY Times, no big deal. That’s what guides Biden people and their media Allie’s in this Garagegate.
49 posted on
01/21/2023 7:41:48 AM PST by
oldbill
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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.
Same reason can be used for Pres. Trump...
52 posted on
01/21/2023 7:47:01 AM PST by
stylin19a
(a principle to keep a person in everlasting ignorance ? - contempt prior to investigation)
To: devane617
It took a couple of weeks for the Ds to agree to a full investigation. That simply means that the Ds have been assured that any potentially bad evidence has been ‘disappeared’ or otherwise sanitized.
OTH it could mean that evidence has been planted so that Slo-Joe will be effectively eliminated from any 2024 POTUS plans. If this is the case, expect KamalHo to bow out of the picture also. Since the Ds have ballot fraud just about perfected, there will be new, younger communists in the race. These candidates will draw enough ballots to win decisively. How many ballots? The easy calculation is the total number of R ballots plus 10% +/- 2%.
53 posted on
01/21/2023 7:57:21 AM PST by
ByteMercenary
(Slo-Joe and KamalHo are not my leaders.)
To: devane617
Senate Democrats support full investigation into Biden document scandal.
Election coming up doll up the dog and pony for the show the script is ready.
54 posted on
01/21/2023 7:57:25 AM PST by
Vaduz
(LAWYERS )
To: devane617
Hey hey ho ho!
Document Joe has got to go!...?
55 posted on
01/21/2023 7:59:03 AM PST by
citizen
(Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people - John Adams 1798)
To: devane617
Now we know why they went after Trump with gusto! It was about hiding all the top-secret classified documents the veggie had hidden in his garage. It was to take the eye off the hot potato the veggie’s criminal act. It’s all falling into place. Some inside source or whistleblower tipped off the FBI and the DOJ they were going to snitch or did to congress, on the vegetable. By accusing Trump of stealing classified documents, it took the heat off the liar in chief. These people are evil, and when there is something revealed unexpectedly beware something is aloof and it has to do with the criminal rats. The FBI and DOJ have become an evil arm of the filthy Swamp rats. They are cunning, evil, very very powerful, and every game plan they put forth, view it with skepticism. Like Bannon said, there are no coincidence only evil 👿 intentions by the rats and its hordes. They’re evil, smart and dangerous!
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Oh, wooooolves! Tired of Alpo at the zoo? Haven’t run down any herd stragglers lately? Here! Have some POTUS. Yummy yummy yummy. He can’t run very fast.
58 posted on
01/21/2023 8:11:56 AM PST by
Eleutheria5
(Every Goliath has his David.)
To: devane617
"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 DigitalManchin pretends to be anti Biden.
I bet this one investigation draws all the attention, taking most of the attention away from other more important things.
Meanwhile behind the scenes, Biden and Obama will cut a deal. Biden won't run, and Obama will come out and say that he declassified the documents before VP Doofus took them home.
To: devane617
Massive crimes are going on while they argue about this popcorn fart.
I wish Vlad would just bring the nukes on DC.
65 posted on
01/21/2023 9:00:15 AM PST by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
To: devane617
It’s one thing to misplace a classified document. Quite another to take it home and store in your garage
66 posted on
01/21/2023 9:59:45 AM PST by
Nifster
(OI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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