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The Hur Report:Joe Biden "willfully retained and disclosed classified materials"
Watching the Defectives ^ | 2/11/2024 | Parker Shannon

Posted on 02/11/2024 5:03:09 AM PST by Candor7

Special Counsel Robert Hur's Final Report

Last Thursday, the Department of Justice released Special Counsel Robert Hur's final report on Joe Biden's classified documents scandal. In the report, Hur concluded that Joe Biden "willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency."

Hur went on to say that he would not criminally prosecute Biden for his handling of that material -- surprising absolutely nobody!

That these documents contained highly classified material about military and foreign policy, and notebooks containing Biden’s entries about national security became irrelevant.

The report includes an executive summary, 17 chapters, a conclusion and three appendices, covering a total of 388 pages.

The meat of Hur's report can be summarized, as follows:

“Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen. These materials included marked classified documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, and notebooks containing Mr. Biden’s handwritten entries about issues of national security and foreign policy implicating sensitive intelligence sources and methods. FBI agents recovered these materials from the garage, offices, and basement den in Mr. Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware home,”

“He knew he kept classified information in notebooks stored in his house and he knew he was not allowed to do so.”

"Joe Biden even shared some classified information with his ghostwriter for his second memoir, 'Promise Me, Dad,' published in 2017."

“We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory”

“We conclude that no criminal charges are warranted in this matter.”

Biden’s lawyer, Richard Sauber, said in a written statement, said, “We are pleased that this investigation has concluded and that the Special Counsel [Hur] found ‘no criminal charges are warranted in this matter'."

Sauber should be more than pleased. He should be doing cartwheels

The Documents

Joe Biden or his agents stole classified documents -- including TOP SECRET (SCI) documents -- and improperly stored them at the Penn Biden Center, his Delaware home in the garage, his Virginia home, and in his lawyer’s Boston office. He also shared these documents with unauthorized persons, and in the runup to the 2020 election Biden ordered those documents recovered by persons who did not have the proper clearance to handle them.

The Department of Justice, the FBI, other federal agencies, the Democratic Party, the Democratic media, and a gazillion useful idiots, all must now pretend that Joe Biden was not "grossly negligent" and committed no crime in his storage and handling of the stolen classified documents.

Title 18 U.S.C. 1924 makes it a federal crime to knowingly remove classified documents or materials from their designated locations without authorization or retain them in an unauthorized area -- like a garage!

Penalties for violating this statute can include: imprisonment for up to five years in federal prison, fines up to $250,000, or both. The severity of the penalties depends on the level of classification of the information involved, the intended use of the data, and the harm caused by the mishandling. The Hur Report

On January 15, 2023, when this story first broke, I published an essay -- Grossly Negligent+ -- that made the observation that, "Joe Biden's stolen TOP SECRET (SCI) documents were a very big deal." It described the details of classified document storage, access and control.

Joe Biden neglected to comply with every manual and automated process to safeguard America's secrets. It also points out how the mandatory annual inventory of classified documents produced "red flags" every year that identified the document and the person who signed the document out.

For some reason, these "red flags" were ignored. The Hur Report

Appendix A of the Hur Report contains a detailed listing of the documents recovered by the FBI and data describing the following:

Document ID Contained In Date Page Count Summary Classification Markings Results of Classification Review

Open the Hur Report (be patient, it's big, wait for it to load), located in the left sidebar, copy the bold text below and search the document using your browsers "find/search" function:

Appendix A: Recovered Documents

Appendix B of the Hur Report contains a detailed listing of "Select Notebook Entries and Other Handwritten Material" recovered by the FBI and data describing the following:

Handwritten Item Description Entry Date Entry Page Count Entry Topic Results of Classification Review

Open the Hur Report, located in the left sidebar, copy the bold text and search the document:

Appendix B: Classification Review

Biden took many of these documents when he was a senator and a vice president, when he did not have the authority to take them. He took these documents over a period of many years. He knew it was a crime. Why did he take them? Why did he need them? Did he forget that he had all these documents?

OK, we can see the man has now clearly lost his competency, but why did he keep them in old boxes in the garage? These are nation's top secrets. He treated his Corvette better. Joe Biden's memory

“In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden’s memory was worse,” Hur wrote.

"He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended":

"If it was 2013, when did I stop being Vice President?"

"And forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began":

"In 2009, am I still Vice President?"

“He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died,” the special counsel said, “ and his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him.” The Hur Report

The back door

So, why did Biden’s own DoJ allow the special counsel’s report to include such damning information about Joe Biden's mental decline?

Hur’s descriptions of Biden’s mental state were the DoJ’s only basis for not charging Biden in light of the report’s finding that he had “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.”

Hur had to explain why they weren’t going to charge Biden for "willfully" committing what could be hundreds of individual, provable crimes.

The report creates the "straw man" that a jury looking at Joe Biden would say, "I don’t know. That guy has no idea what’s going on," so, we don’t have a chance of getting him convicted, and the FBI guidelines say don’t charge somebody if you don’t think there’s a chance of a conviction.

What the report says -- while not saying it -- is Joe Biden is guilty as Hell, the evidence is overwhelming, but we can't indict our boss, the president, so, let's use this straw man to give us a back door out of this dilemma.

That’s the reason they put it in there. It was all coordinated and approved at the highest levels of the DoJ. Deny, distract and distort

What followed the report's release was OUTRAGE! How dare they?

All day Friday and into Saturday, every Democrat that had access to a TV camera or a microphone expressed their outrage that the report questioned Joe Biden's mental acuity.

How dare that “partisan” special counsel launch a "cheap shot, derogatory attacks" against Biden by saying he has a "poor memory."

Joe Biden responded with a defiant, combative statement at a press conference in which he read from notes, caustically dismissed the report's findings that his memory is fading, insulted reporters, and then, in unscripted comments, confused the presidents of Egypt and Mexico.

Multiple Democrats and mainstream media figures strongly disagreed with Special Counsel Robert Hur's report on President Biden and his "poor memory," insisting that the world leader is "on his game."

Prominent journalists, like former CNN reporter John Harwood, insisted that Biden is one of the "sharpest" people they’ve dealt with and is more than capable of handling his job as president.

Democrats, like Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY), were quick to play fast and loose with the facts of the Hur Report.

On Saturday, the word went out to Biden's allies. They have been instructed to attack Special Counsel Robert Hur on the Sunday news shows today, smearing him as a political hack and Trump guy.

No Democrat addressed the core of Hur's report -- that Joe Biden "willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen” -- they were all too busy being outraged.

It's all smoke and mirrors -- deny, distract and distort -- and the media will continue to play along. The "outrage" will become "the narrative" and the hyperventilating will suppress the true and simple facts that are contained in the Hur Report.

In the end, the Democrats have a simple, binary choice.

If Biden’s memory is as fine as his apologists claim, he needs to be charged with his crimes of willfully retaining and disclosing classified materials. If he isn't going to be charged for those crimes because he's "a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” he needs to resign or be removed.

Joe Biden -- and the Democrats -- can’t have it both ways. The bottom line

Stephen Miller, who was a senior advisor for policy and White House director of speech-writing during the Trump administration, sums it up nicely.

America is in trouble. We are headed toward a general-election showdown and the Democratic incumbent's condition is growing worse. Americans aren't the only ones who will read Hur's report or watch Biden's televised meltdown. America's enemies will also.

The world was a dangerous place before Thursday. It has grown more dangerous since.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: Candor7

Does this make me some kind of freaking genius that I realized that Joe Biden was a dimwitted, craven liar in 1988 when he was laughed out of the presidential campaign for his serial plagiarism?

Joe Biden isn’t qualified to attend a tour of the White House, never mind being the nation’s chief executive.

A chief executive who lacks executive function…

A perfect summation of the Democrat Party in 2024.

“I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!”


21 posted on 02/11/2024 6:18:30 AM PST by turfmann
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To: PubliusMM; Jan_Sobieski

We need Kamala and Joe to visit Fort Marcey Park
and then we would have Speaker Mike Johnson as President
until Jan 25th 2025.
And, the other reason they won’t charge SloJo?
Because no one...NO ONE...wants to put Kamel-toe the Ho in charge. It doesn’t matter who is pulling the strings; THAT is not going to happen if they can avoid it.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

God can work in mysterious ways....and notice how Mike Johnson is named after Saint Michael the arch angel?

I am cheering for the bright side and praying for the continued safety of President Trump.Do not sweat the small stuff. Celebrate the fact that we have a righteous cause and a righteous battle to fight, even to the death.

I want them to BRING IT!


22 posted on 02/11/2024 6:19:12 AM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He <br>trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: Candor7

Mark Levin did an excellent job of outlining this in his show last night.


23 posted on 02/11/2024 6:21:42 AM PST by gattaca (Once a nation loses control of its borders, it is no longer a nation...Ronald Reagan)
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To: RetiredScientist

Incredible report that lays out the crimes of Biden which are irrefutable BUT then says he’s to old and senile to be charged and stand trial. It’s pretty bizarre for a prosecutor. It’s no big deal, Biden can still be president though.


24 posted on 02/11/2024 6:22:35 AM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: owainG31

Yes, you are write but there is one small chink pf possibility......HUrs report could be used to initiate a 25th amendment removal of Biden.

BUt as you say, unlikely.BUt the Senate has that report, and they could act.


25 posted on 02/11/2024 6:22:39 AM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He <br>trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: Candor7

Is mishandling of classified documents illegal or not?


26 posted on 02/11/2024 6:24:15 AM PST by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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To: Candor7

This has been covered around here in great detail.

The first step in the 25th amendment is that the Vice President has to start the process.

If they do not do so then nothing happens.

Congress enters late in the process—and is irrelevant in the early stages.


27 posted on 02/11/2024 6:24:32 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: bray

“Is mishandling of classified documents illegal or not?”

It is illegal for Republicans and white people.

It is legal for Democrats and black people.


28 posted on 02/11/2024 6:25:32 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: KC Burke; Tennessee Nana

Let’s see if we can get a link to its full posting.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Hur Report

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24414141-report-from-special-counsel-robert-k-hur-february-2024

Mark Levin:
https://www.marklevinshow.com/2024/02/09/february-9th-2024/

(You can also get the audio replay of the show under “Rewind , Fridy 9th Feb, 2024)


29 posted on 02/11/2024 6:33:08 AM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He <br>trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: cgbg

Thanks, I did not know this.I thought it was the Senate.

Well, looks like all that we have is the Fort Marcey Park option.Or perhaps a canoe ride on the Potomoc.


30 posted on 02/11/2024 6:34:56 AM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He <br>trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: Candor7

In this case there are two other “solutions”:

—The white coat violates their oath (so common nowadays).

—The WH helicopter had uh technical problems (affirmative action mechanics could handle that).


31 posted on 02/11/2024 6:38:41 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: ronnie raygun

Hillery...
Biden...
Was this a surprise to anyone?


32 posted on 02/11/2024 6:39:35 AM PST by OldArmy52 (Resisting criminals is a punishable offense )
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To: bray
Is mishandling of classified documents illegal or not?

The answer is the Democrat fascist Jedhi mind trick

Nothing to see here..move along now....



Its our job to not let ANYBODY FORGET

33 posted on 02/11/2024 6:39:58 AM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He <br>trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: Candor7

There is no explanation why they are not prosecuting Biden’s ghost writer for deleting his recorded conversations after the discovery of the classified documents. It seems they were prosecuting J6 defendants for that.


34 posted on 02/11/2024 6:41:55 AM PST by Yogafist
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To: Pete Dovgan

Hes NOT a SPY per se.....hes SELLING AMERICA’S SECRETS AND SOLD ACCESS.....oh wait....he IS A SPY.


35 posted on 02/11/2024 6:42:41 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Candor7

Mark will probably continue his comments on tonights show...

Theres a lot to get through...


36 posted on 02/11/2024 6:43:42 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Yogafist

That ghost writer needs to sing like a canary and we need a forensic reconstruction of that hard drive. The military techies can do that unless it is physicaly destroyed.


37 posted on 02/11/2024 6:45:52 AM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He <br>trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: Candor7

Based on the Biden rule, established by Hur and Garland, charges against Trump should be immediately dropped, and probably for a lot of other folks that Biden has prosecuted for similar matters in recent years.


38 posted on 02/11/2024 6:46:38 AM PST by Reno89519 (If Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial, he is mentally unfit to be president. He needs to resign.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

MArk is treating this like its a “gotcha” moment.

I look forward to hearing what he has to say tonight.

Perhaps impeaching Joe for espionage will be the answer.


39 posted on 02/11/2024 6:47:45 AM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He <br>trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: Ann Archy

Espionage

Call it what it is.


40 posted on 02/11/2024 6:53:46 AM PST by Pete Dovgan
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