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Government Corruption
Joe Biden's Classified Docs Provide More Evidence Hunter's Pay-To-Play Was A Family Affair
2024-02-13
[Federalist] The special counsel report on Joe Biden’s unauthorized removal and disclosure of classified documents exposed much more than our president’s mental deficits and the breadth of his irresponsible handling of top-secret and classified information. The report revealed a close nexus between Hunter Biden’s influence peddling and his father’s responsibilities and access to intel during the elder’s term as vice president.

On Thursday, Special Counsel Robert Hur released the results of his investigation into the president stemming from the discovery of top-secret and classified documents at Biden’s D.C.-based Penn Biden Center, his private Delaware home, and the University of Delaware. While the specific details in the recovered documents remain unknown, the nearly 400-page report provided an extensive enough summary of the materials to confirm an overlap in the timing and topics of Joe Biden’s vice presidency and Hunter Biden’s "business" enterprises.

UKRAINE OVERLAP
Appendix A of the report provided a table summary of the documents recovered. Many of the top-secret and classified documents concerned Ukraine during the time frame when Hunter Biden acted as an intermediary between Burisma’s owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, and the vice president. Recall that Hunter’s business partner, Devon Archer, told the House Oversight Committee that in early March 2014, he met Zlochevsky while in Moscow. And soon after, he and Hunter Biden joined Burisma’s board, receiving $83,000 per month.

The following month, Hunter Biden sent Archer an email dated April 13, 2014 — one week before Joe Biden would travel to Ukraine and meet then-Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Referring to "my guys upcoming travels," Hunter then elaborated on "22 points about Ukraine’s political situation, with detailed information about the upcoming election and predicting an escalation of Russia’s ’destabilization campaign, which could lead to a full-scale takeover of the eastern region, most critically Donetsk,’" according to the New York Post.
Posted by:Besoeker

#4  Excellent Nomo. Thanks !
Posted by: Besoeker   2024-02-13 14:22  

#3  As a direct result of the above incident, the following was written to Vice President Biden in specific to advise him on handling of classified information. It is instructive to note what behaviors of his it is clearly written to address! Emphasis added:

“Classified information of any kind may only be reviewed or discussed in secured locations, and never in a public place such as on a train.”

“The [classified briefing] books must remain in your custody, or that of your cleared staff, at all times unless they are in your safe. Classified material must be returned to your national security staff as soon as you are finished with them.”

“Classified materials may never be left unattended, but must be secured in an appropriate safe or transferred to an individual authorized to transport them in an appropriate locked bag whenever they are not in your personal custody.”

“Whenever possible, classified materials should remain at the White House complex…. If you need to receive classified materials while at your residence at NAVOBS or in Delaware, the military aides will bring the material to you and then wait to take the material back when you are finished so that it can be stored safely.”

Posted by: NoMoreBS   2024-02-13 14:04  

#2  ^ From a Special Security Officer (SSO) standpoint, compromise of classified information must be assumed. Loss and recovery is actually not relevant.
Posted by: Besoeker   2024-02-13 13:04  

#1  "August 2010, when Mr. Biden failed to return Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information (also referred to as “codeword”) contents of a classified briefing book that he had received during a trip to the Hamptons, in New York. We were unable to determine whether these materials were ever recovered"
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2024-02-13 12:47  

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