Posted on 01/14/2023 9:33:05 AM PST by CFW
I was wondering why his lawyers were just being permitted to paw through these documents at their leisure and unsupervised.
Harris/Fetterman 2024
Can you imagine that?
I travel a dirt road in NEPA to the Lake, there were three sets of Shapiro/Fetterman signs along that 1.7 mile road. Idiotic.
Bet he’s selling them for a $100 bucks a sheet.
The love of money has no ending.
It’s a no brainer.
This is all about kiddie porn being cleaned up
9 hours the FBI spent in his home, Trumps political enemies got to decide what was classified,could have planted things or taken things not allowed like passports. Totally fine because they are D different.
HRC got to sort through her top secrets on her computer with her lawyers too. So FBI raid for R’s friendly lawyers for Ds.
NY POST EDITORIAL
Don’t buy Biden’s ‘surprise’ — classified documents were moved at least twice
By Jonathan Turley
January 11, 2023 6:24pm Updated
With the reported discovery of a second batch of highly classified documents connected to President Biden, the decisions of Attorney General Merrick Garland are fast moving from inexplicable to incomprehensible.
Garland was presumably briefed that classified documents were discovered in Joe Biden’s old office on Nov. 2. He also presumably knew about the Biden documents when he appointed a special counsel to investigate the classified documents at Mar-a-Lago 16 days later.
At the time of the appointment of Jack Smith, some of us noted the inexplicable refusal of Garland to appoint a special counsel to look into alleged Biden influence peddling and other crimes.
Garland continued to refuse such an appointment even as he justified the appointment of Smith on the basis that Donald Trump was running for the presidency. Joe Biden is the president. What is the difference?
President Biden
Classified documents from Biden’s days as vice president were discovered in November.
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
Biden, meanwhile, is feigning ignorance, simply saying he was “surprised” the documents were there.
By not discussing the content of the documents, Biden minimizes his vulnerability to charges of obstruction or false statements. He can simply declare “surprise,” knowing that many in the media will welcome his silence as they spin the scandal.
The building that housed office space of President Joe Biden’s former institute, the Penn Biden Center,
The documents were discovered six days before the midterm elections at a think tank affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania.
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP
Despite the lack of information, the press and pundits have already declared there is no real national security danger and certainly no comparison to Mar-a-Lago. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) declared, “There is no comparison. They were in a locked closet. They were not accessible.”
So that is the standard? A locked closet? The Mar-a-Lago storage room was locked and later the security was enhanced at the request of the FBI.
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It is fair to note that Trump and his staff are accused of false statements and obstruction. However, that does not change the same alleged crime of unlawful removal and possession.
Biden is taking a page from the Hillary Clinton playbook. Recall the long-sought Whitewater documents. After the case was effectively over, they suddenly appeared. The New York Times called the documents “elusive,” as if they moved by free will.
Clinton was also “surprised” by the discovery of the documents … after they could not be used as part of the earlier investigation.
There are some obvious explanations for the documents being present in the office, particularly given Biden’s work on a book that discussed his work in some of the referenced countries like Ukraine. However, even that explanation raises more questions. For example, Biden left office as vice president in 2017 and had an office at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia after finishing his term until 2019. On February 8, 2018, the Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement says, it opened its doors in Washington, DC.
Former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home
Former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home was raided in August 2022 with the discovery of classified documents.
Joe Raedle/Getty Images
So if these documents were removed when Biden left office, where were they in the prior year and were they moved repeatedly before they ended up in the Washington office? This does not appear to be a “one-and-done” mistake. Rather documents may have been at various locations over a five-year period.
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None of this could be clarified with Biden simply expressing “surprise.”
The FBI has two immediate tasks: Secure the highly classified documents and then determine whether they may have been compromised.
Consider that Biden notably did not categorically deny asking for the documents to be taken at the end of this term as vice president.
He also did not explain when he was briefed after they were found.
Democrats and the media are eager to wave this away and move on. But, as the statements of Garland and Biden show, there are many questions that need answering. The discovery of new classified documents only magnifies those unanswered questions.
Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.
For Biden:
SCIF - Store In Car Facility
No need, they trust his lawyers to do the right thing and destroy anything incriminating.
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