Posted on 02/10/2023 8:54:33 AM PST by Red Badger
President Joe Biden on Feb. 8 attempted to downplay the classified documents discovered at his home and former office, claiming that their contents dated back to 1974 and were simply “stray papers.”
Biden made the comments in an interview with PBS NewsHour just a day after his State of the Union address, which garnered mixed reactions from Republicans and Democrats.
The president was asked by host Judy Woodruff about comments he made in September in relation to former president Donald Trump, whose Mar-a-Lago home was raided in August, during which around 11,000 documents—some of which were marked classified—were seized by the FBI.
Biden had stated in September that possessing classified documents is “totally irresponsible,” in reference to Trump, while questioning what data was in the documents and whether or not it might compromise certain sources and methods.
“So what was totally irresponsible about the fact that you had some?” Woodruff quizzed Biden on Wednesday, to which he responded by attempting to downplay the contents of the documents, but also concluded that he is not aware of exactly what is in the materials.
Staffers ‘Didn’t Do the Kind of Job That Should Have Been Done’
He also shifted the blame to staffers who he said had not done a thorough job of going through paperwork from his former office.
“In the best of my knowledge, the kinds of things they picked up were things that [sic] from 1974 and stray papers. There may be something else, I don’t know,” Biden said. “But one of the things that happened is that what was not done well is, as they packed up my offices to move them, they didn’t do the kind of job that should have been done to go thoroughly through every single piece of literature that’s there. But I’ll just let the investigation … decide what’s going on and we’ll see what happens.”
Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed Robert Hur, a former Maryland U.S. attorney, to serve as special counsel to oversee the Department of Justice inquiry into the documents and to establish whether or not Biden or those around him broke the law in their handling of the documents.
Biden told PBS on Wednesday: “They’ve informed me not to speak to this issue to anyway try to prejudice the investigation that’s going on,” before elaborating on what he believes to be key differences between himself and Trump with regard to the discovery of classified materials.
“But what I was talking about [in September] was what was laid out. All these documents were top secret, code word, and all the rest,” he claimed of the documents found at Trump’s home. Trump is currently being investigated by the DOJ.
GOP Lawmakers to Be Briefed on Classified Materials
The president then went on to explain that he has been cooperative with officials investigating the discovery of the classified materials, telling Woodruff that he has “voluntarily” opened up his home and office for a search as part of the probe.
“I’m not at liberty and I’m not even sure, I made voluntarily—no one’s had to threaten to do anything—voluntarily opened every single aperture I have in the house, offices, everything for them to come and look and spend hours searching my home. Invited them,” Biden said of federal agents.
Classified materials dating back to Biden’s time as vice president were discovered at the Penn Biden Center in Washington on Nov. 2 just before the midterm elections but the public was not informed until two months later.
Further documents were found at one of his homes in Wilmington, Delaware and more were subsequently found later in the president’s home library.
Biden has remained relatively tight-lipped about the discovery, citing the ongoing investigation. His interview with PBS on Wednesday marked his first interview with a journalist since before the midterms.
The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability has requested that the Biden documents, along with the Trump materials, be handed over to them so that they can assess potential risks to national security arising from the mishandling of classified information.
Lawmakers on the committee are set to be briefed on the documents this week.
I guess the totally manufactured Trump case is off the front burner now?
If they do try to bring it back up front, Biden will have to be brought up, too.
It’s as if God is playing with them.
There are still, to this day, many, many morons out there that believe the ‘Russia’ thing and believe Trump is a traitor, and the Bidens are just being persecuted fro political reasons.
They are brainwashed beyond hope...................
If this was COL Smith, instead of a member of the Ruling Class, he would already be in jail.
The FIB has “sanitized” all Lunch Bucket Joey Bidet&Co’s docs, so nothing is “Classified”, anymore.
The truth is, the demented retard doesn’t know what they are. He thought they were some of Hunter’s school homework papers.
The reason for the document diversion. Now with Pence is to divert from the Hunter Biden and most of congress taking bribes from the chinese.
Well then release them to the general public
They are too stupid to be useful
By referring to them as ‘stray papers’, it psychologically puts the onus on ‘the papers’, as if they are dogs, cats, cattle or horses, and can ‘stray’ of their own accord....................
Hell, Platoon Leaders’ careers were ENDED over losing a CEOI during field exercises, a Confidential booklet of call signs and frequencies for up to 7 days. And Brandon had classified documents in his possession since 1974?
Military, civil servants, and contractors who work with classified take it seriously. And rightly so.
Damned politicians treat it like a game.
Calling them “stray papers” tells We The People all we need to know about how the Biden Crime Family has treated classified documents and US National Security over almost 50 years of government “work.”
This applies to Joe’s breaking many stringent security measures, absconding with the docs—which could only have been purposeful—giving noncleared personnel repeated access to them and having such documents moved multiple times to various closets and garages.
It wouldn’t take a 007 to intercept US National Secrets in all this relocation. Gomer Pyle could have arranged a heist at many a point—if Gomer had Xio Buyden’s lack of ethics and loyalty to the citizenry.
With such an anti-authoritarian attitude, Joe’s must have considered hundreds of times how a grifter of his superior status could easily convert access to those “stray papers” into hard cash for himself and his family to pay their bills. 10% is just a modest sum, surely! The bulk would go toward establishing scores of millions in long-term Biden wealth and influence, to stay several steps ahead of the law if that would ever be needed.
When it comes to classified documents, there is no such thing as “stray papers” or “inadvertent misplacement.” Such a lack of seriousness over the handling of classified documents IMO is ground for immediate removal from office. That goes for personal data as well. Most of my civilian career has involved dealing with personal data, mostly tax returns. I “fired” TaxAct last month when I learned they sold personal data to Meta.
“... during which around 11,000 documents—some of which were marked classified ...”
How many were classified? 2 out of 11000?
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