Back when the Mar-a-Lago raid happened, I pointed out that most presidents probably accidentally take home classified documents, courtesy of incompetent staffers who are on their way out the door and aren’t necessarily paying close attention to what a document is. Unthinking abuse of classified documents is commonplace in the upper echelons never mind the thinking kind.
It’s awkward when it happens to the guy doing a victory lap over the Mar-a-Lago raid.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has assigned the U.S. attorney in Chicago to review classified documents found at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington, two sources with knowledge of the inquiry told CBS News. The roughly 10 documents are from President Biden’s vice-presidential office at the center, the sources said. CBS News has learned the FBI is also involved in the U.S. attorney’s inquiry.
The classified material was identified by personal attorneys for Mr. Biden on Nov. 2, just before the midterm elections, Richard Sauber, special counsel to the president confirmed. The documents were discovered when Mr. Biden’s personal attorneys “were packing files housed in a locked closet to prepare to vacate office space at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C.,” Sauber said in a statement to CBS News. The documents were contained in a folder that was in a box with other unclassified papers, the sources said. The sources revealed neither what the classified documents contain nor their level of classification. A source familiar told CBS News the documents did not contain nuclear secrets.
So where are the FBI raids? The weeks of frenzied media coverage and analysis? The suggestion that this time the walls truly are closing in. Instead, the media is shrugging at it as awkward politics. And that’s it.
A lot of materials are classified. But being classified doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re especially sensitive. But the Center is closely linked to the Biden administration and key figures who are part of it.
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, for example, was the center’s managing director in 2018. Steve Richetti, who now serves as a top White House aide to Mr. Biden, was managing director of the center in 2019.
Steve Richetti is also a major lobbyist.
Don’t expect this to lead to anything. If this was truly damaging stuff, it would have been buried much more effectively. And an inquiry will at most deliver a few fall guys. Before too long the media will be explaining that this sort of thing happens quite a bit. And that it does. We have too many classified documents and poor security. An outgoing administration making way for a political opponent is rarely on the ball.
Biden was exiting after a bitter election that his side lost. Trump was exiting after a bitter election to make way for Biden. These are not ideal conditions. But the double standard is there under every sort of condition.
@Mickhorn:
FBI raids are de rigueur whenever the name Trump can be connected (even by the slimmest thread) to whomever or whatever is being raided. This policy has been in effect for years. But there is no double standard… Give me a break.
why does mickhorn hang out here anyway? he contributes nothing and makes a fool of himself. Perhaps best to ignore and not engage. That way his pay will be much lower.
He may be a quadriplegic confined to an iron lung after his sex switch surgery took an unfortunate turn.
We might set up a go fund me account.
I recommend an electric wheel chair that will enable him to play miniature golf.
A busy life is a happy life.
It’s like mission work among the ungodly. 🙂 And – you get to feel so special about yourself too.
Does he even pay rent?
I think he works for CNN or NBSND or whatever it’s called. He’s probably a tranny.
Yeah, they’re completely different, alright. Access to Trump’s documents was protected by the Secret Service.
and vice presidents have zero power to declassify, thats the big difference.
VERY GOOD POINT – Cat INDEED
China does not fund MaraLago.
China does fund Penn, and without transparency.
MaraLago has Secret Service scrutiny. Penn does not.
Presidents have plenary authority over security classification, which means security transgression by the chief executive are null and impose. The Presidents possess this exclusively. Give Presidents cannot. Biden was VP.
Obama stored in numbered thousands of documents of multiple security classification in an abandoned shoe warehouse in Chicago.
But, of course, that’s different. Orange hair changes the rules.
Don’t you know anything, Mickie?
“Impose” > impossible
“in numbered” > unnumbered
Android™ works like Mickie’s brain. The right wheels have left hand thread. The left hand wheels have right hand thread. When the wheels fall off he alternates between blaming Trump and God.
“Crates” is Trumpian hyperbole. And Trump, as President, had the Constitutional authority to declassify before leaving office. Biden as VP had no such authority. Yeah, Biden’s lawyers turned over these documents. But we don’t know if there are more. Time, I say, to raid, and do a full search of Biden’s residences.
Before Biden made the Big Time, his net bribe income only got him a handful of Delaware mansions.
But NOW, he has a big contract with the big leagues. He’s a player. And his sponsor constitutes one of five humans on the planet. After this gig, he can buy a reasonably sized sovereign fiefdom. Maybe.
The Penn-Biden Centre may has been useful as a document drop point. Drops in public places or facilities, have been vulnerabilities of espionage activities in the past. Was not Hanson apprehended at a drop off?
Is our enforcement apparatus so corrupted that we have to catch the spy in deadbang fragrente delicto with a Chicom handler?
Until then, the American Intelligence Community stands sentry?
It seems we’ve already lost.
I think that was Adam Swallwoell withe the Chicom spy.
Trump’s lawyers turned over documents. The National Archives and FBI kept pushing harder. No sign that they’re playing hardball with their boss though.
I can’t help but think that this is a diversion for something far more sinister. While we are watching this, these evil criminals are up to something we are not looking for. On the other hand – why has there been a delay of almost two and a half months. This is probably the tip of the iceberg !!!!
Peter Schweitzer pointed out ~$30 million. And Schweitzer seems to have escaped being sued, prosecuted or assassinated.
This insight may lead to something much bigger.
Only captured hand-in-cookie jar will be good enough for conviction/removal.
Prison would be too good for him, IF he has indeed taken foreign money as payoffs. This isn’t Spiro Agnew accepting residuals due him as ex-governor on state paving contracts. These are the Red Chinese, the ones that were killing as many GIs as possible seventh years ago.
I can imagine no greater perfidy.
Your’e so gay it’s not even funny.
How many dicks have you sucked today? A lot, I’ll bet.
I’d love to smash your face.
Are you retarded?You know that anybody with a functioning brain does’nt believe you MSM bullshit, right?
Scumbag.