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Government Corruption
Special counsel: Biden 'willfully' disclosed classified materials, but no criminal charges warranted
[APNEWS] President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier...
"willfully" retained and disclosed highly classified materials when he was a private citizen, including documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan and other sensitive national security matters, according to a Justice Department report that nonetheless says no criminal charges are warranted for him or anyone else.

The report from special counsel Robert Hur, released Thursday, represents a harshly critical assessment of Biden’s handling of sensitive government materials, but also details the reasons why he should not be charged with the crime.

The findings will likely blunt his ability to forcefully condemn Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
, Biden’s likely opponent in November’s presidential election, over a criminal indictment charging the former president with illegally hoarding classified records at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

"Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen," Hur wrote.
Posted by: Fred || 02/09/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [28 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Как однажды сказал Олег Кононеко: «В космосе никто не услышит, как у тебя отвисает челюсть».
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/09/2024 0:02 Comments || Top||

#2  I know it sounds a bit Alex Jones, but I suspect there's a backstory here which involves a family member, laptops, extensive travel, and the sale of classified documents to unauthorized foreign entities.

Apparently, a rock no one wishes to flip over.

Posted by: Besoeker || 02/09/2024 3:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Immunity by Senility! The left always has an excuse not to prosecute their own.
Posted by: Airandee || 02/09/2024 6:43 Comments || Top||

#4  "Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen,"

So guilty. And like all double standards of today's "American" law, will not be held any more accountable than Hillary and her private server.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/09/2024 6:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Intention and knowledge of the law are not pertinent for the disclose law.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/09/2024 8:35 Comments || Top||

#6  Apparently, a rock no one wishes to flip over.

It's all about the money and who received what. Scope probably extends well beyond the Biden family.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 02/09/2024 10:53 Comments || Top||

#7  Innit funny there's not one backstabber coming out of the woodwork on this? Compare and contrast to the people Trump surrounded himself with.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/09/2024 10:56 Comments || Top||

#8  ...cause everyone on their side has money riding on the game.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/09/2024 13:13 Comments || Top||

#9  It may have worked for Biden but Trump needs to be very careful not to use the same defense.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/09/2024 14:12 Comments || Top||

#10  Biden will be Top Man until evidence of crime starts piling up, then he will not be able to remember and it all goes away.
/"Conspiracy Theorists", 2020
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/09/2024 17:07 Comments || Top||

#11  The Trump kerfluffle on classified documents involved a President, who seems to have declssified documents that he retained, as is legal, in proper storage contained under cleared Secret Service observation while he negotiated possession with the National Archives. If I recall correctly they were 19 SECRET and lower classification documents properly labeled.

Biden, as Vice President who had no authority to retain any classified documentation, had over 300 documents and document notebooks taken from PDB and other TOP SECRET classified sources, with over 20 marked at the TOP SECRET/Sensitive Compartmentalized Information-Code Word level in cardboard boxes stored unsecured in the basement and garage, and which by taped admission were shared with his Ghostwriter. The Hur report disregards the law since the mere possession alone, intent notwithstanding, of each document constitutes a felony. He essentially used the same risible excuse given Hillary that intent and ignorance constitute grounds for non-prosecution. Proof we are NOT a nation of laws, merely the pretense of law for those without patrons.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/09/2024 18:44 Comments || Top||

#12  ^ As I understand it - spot on
Posted by: Frank G || 02/09/2024 18:55 Comments || Top||

#13  "The top-secret and classified documents, as well as many others marked confidential, were discovered at the Penn Biden Center, the University of Delaware, and Biden’s Delaware home, including in his garage. According to the special counsel report, the material included notes from classified briefings that discussed “U.S. intelligence sources, methods … capabilities,” and activities, as well as the activities of foreign intelligence services. Other notes discussed “U.S. military programs and capabilities, foreign military programs and capabilities,” and “plans and capabilities of foreign terrorist organizations.”

https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/09/democrats-spun-bidens-classified-docs-as-six-items-but-special-counsel-report-reveals-it-was-300-plus/
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/09/2024 19:27 Comments || Top||


‘Elderly Man with a Poor Memory': Devastating DOJ Report Says Biden ‘Did Not Remember When He Was Vice President' and ‘When His Son Died'
[Mediaite] President Joe Biden will not be charged over his retention of government documents, Special Counsel Robert Hur announced on Thursday. In doing so, Hur stated that if Biden were charged, the president could present to a jury “as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Hur as Special Counsel last year after lawyers for Biden informed the government that the president was in possession of classified documents from his days as a senator and vice president. Hur concluded that Biden “willfully retained” the classified material.

Hur’s report describes Biden’s memory in damning terms, at one point stating that it “appeared to have significant limitations.” The report recounts a recorded 2017 conversation with Mark Zwonitzer – who helped Biden write two memoirs – in unflattering terms:

Mr. Biden’s recorded conversations with Zwonitzer from 2017 are often painfully slow, with Mr. Biden struggling to remember events and straining at times to read and relay his own notebook entries.

In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden’s memory was worse. 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. And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him. Among other things, he mistakenly said he “had a real difference” of opinion with General Karl Eikenberry, when, in fact, Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to President Obama.

Hur’s report stated that due to the aforementioned limitations, a jury would likely see Biden as a sympathetic figure if he were criminally charged:
And there you have, a Hur decision. No actual need for a jury, he knew how they would decide.
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. Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him by then a former president well into his eighties of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/09/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [26 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  CNN will be overnighting in a couple truckloads of Turd polish.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/09/2024 0:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Hur as Special Counsel last year

Precisely where I stopped reading.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/09/2024 2:10 Comments || Top||

#3  But Trump? He should be persecuted prosecuted and punished!
Posted by: Frank G || 02/09/2024 6:28 Comments || Top||

#4  The different media outlets are all controlled by different portions of the Deep State, whose goals don’t always align. There are several possible stupid narratives: Joe had a slip of the tongue or we didn’t realize that Joe was cognitively impaired. Seeing which news outlets chose which narrative can allow us to understand who owns which shill.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/09/2024 8:41 Comments || Top||

#5  DC juries can be induced to find anyone guilty of anything a DC prosecutor wants them to.
Posted by: Gromble Dribble4342 || 02/09/2024 10:55 Comments || Top||

#6  In the meantime, Kamela has been hitting the Bailey's and Kahlua.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/09/2024 17:48 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Biden considered resigning vice presidency 'in protest' over Obama's Afghanistan policy: Hur report
[FoxNews] President Biden considered resigning as vice president "in protest" over former President Barack Obama's Afghanistan policies in 2009 over fear the war would become "another Vietnam," according to Special Counsel Robert Hur's report on Biden's mishandling of classified documents released Thursday.

Hur has been investigating Biden's improper retention of classified records since last year. The papers included classified documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, among other national security and foreign policy records, which Hur said implicated "sensitive intelligence sources and methods."

"Tomorrow the President is going to make a fateful decision regarding Afghanistan - as I sat looking out the window at the sea - thinking I should resign in protest over what will bring his administration down," Biden wrote in what the report noted was an "Af/Pak" notebook he used to take notes during a number of National Security Council meetings on Afghanistan in 2009.

"Although I obviously wasn't there I feel like this is what it must have felt like for Kennedy then Johnson in the early days of VTN [Vietnam]. I feel guilty and boxed in myself. Guilty for not having been more successful w/ the President - and staying. Boxed in by knowing or at least feeling that my resignation would only harden his position and leave him with one less voice," he added.

Biden strongly opposed the administration's plans to send thousands more troops to Afghanistan throughout 2009, a view reflected in various entries in his notebook, as well as in a memo he sent Obama, that FBI agents found at his Delaware home alongside marked classified documents containing his advice to the former president.

According to the report, Biden called Army leaders' request for another 40,000 troops in Afghanistan "f---ing outrageous," and privately fretted the decision to do so would be "disastrous."

The reported later said Biden "had a strong motive to keep the classified Afghanistan documents," because of his belief the 2009 troop surge was a Vietnam-level mistake.

"He wanted the record to show that he was right about Afghanistan; that his critics were wrong; and that he had opposed President Obama's mistaken decision forcefully," it said.

"There is evidence that, after his vice presidency, Mr. Biden willfully retained marked classified documents about Afghanistan and unmarked classified handwritten notes in his notebooks, both of which he stored in unsecured places in his home. He had no legal authority to do so, and his retention of these materials, and disclosure of classified information from his notebooks to his ghostwriter, risked serious damage to America's national security," it added.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/09/2024 04:29 || Comments || Link || [37 views] Top|| File under:

#1  All seven threw the flag at exactly the same time on that one.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/09/2024 7:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Was Hurr deposing Biden or drafting his memoir?
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/09/2024 8:31 Comments || Top||

#3  He was appointed by Merrick the Ferret...speculate away
Posted by: Frank G || 02/09/2024 8:41 Comments || Top||

#4  A carefully orchestrated dance, band breaking down early.

I think it would likely have gone Biden and Newsom in Feb with Biden's resignation early thereafter.

Apparently the DS and Political Dems have split with the shift in house leadership.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/09/2024 12:07 Comments || Top||

#5  Woooooowww.

Now that is shameless. You too, Fox.
Brav-O.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/09/2024 13:56 Comments || Top||

#6  If the House GOP approves Gavin Newsom to the VP slot, all of them need to be primaried.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/09/2024 18:37 Comments || Top||


Joe Biden tonight: “I’m the most qualified person in this country to be President of the United States”
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Courtesy of Skidmark: Defiant Biden mixes up the presidents of Egypt and Mexico in furious response to Special Counsel Robert Hur's bombshell report targeting his 'hazy' memory, proclaiming 'I know what the hell I'm doing!'

Biden says his memory is 'fine,' he is 'most qualified person in this country' to be president
Posted by: Fred || 02/09/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [35 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "I, for one, welcome our new KamaKamaKamaKamaKama Kam-a-la o-ver-lord."
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/09/2024 0:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, if Kama suits-ya.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/09/2024 4:26 Comments || Top||

#3  “I’m the most qualified person in this country to be President of the United States”

According to the survey taken among the Houtis?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/09/2024 5:34 Comments || Top||

#4  That's all good and well, but it was the strawberries...that's where I had them! Simple mathematical proof...
Posted by: Cesare || 02/09/2024 6:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Jill has told him that so many times.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/09/2024 8:33 Comments || Top||

#6  We sit as a nation at the most vulnerable time in our history. We have a president that is going through dementia, a vice that is, well, nothing bit vice. Our political leaders in congress and senate are focused and engrossed in deciding if their navels are innies our outies, and if border crashers should get to vote. Our nation is adrift, and the generation in charge could care less...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 02/09/2024 10:05 Comments || Top||

#7  US Civil War III has already started. The participants, however, all suffer from dementia, psychosis, or a combination of both. What better leader could they ask for?
Posted by: Gromble Dribble4342 || 02/09/2024 10:54 Comments || Top||

#8  The current administration and the deep state are doing their best to get us into a world war and now into a civil war at the same time.
Posted by: KBK || 02/09/2024 12:36 Comments || Top||

#9  Well...I'm going fishing.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 02/09/2024 12:46 Comments || Top||

#10  I'll tell you what this means, Norm...no size restrictions and screw the limit!
/Gary Larson
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/09/2024 15:31 Comments || Top||

#11  ^oh boy you nailed that.



God help us if he's right.



Where's Lee Harvey or John Wilkes when you need them?
Posted by: AlanC || 02/09/2024 16:18 Comments || Top||

#12  ...'if' he fell down the long stairs of Air Force One who would question it wasn't an accident.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/09/2024 18:28 Comments || Top||

#13  my cat is more qualified
Posted by: Chris || 02/09/2024 18:39 Comments || Top||

#14  New campaign poster
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/09/2024 21:26 Comments || Top||



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