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In Biden Documents Scandal, DOJ Shows Justice Is Not Only Blind — It’s Dumb

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Given the opportunity to search President Joe Biden’s office and residences, the Department of Justice declined to do so, The Wall Street Journal reports. Instead, it allowed potentially uncleared and unnamed private counsel to search for classified material after the discovery of the highly classified documents in the Penn Biden Center office. It was a decision that could benefit Biden greatly, but at a considerable cost to the department itself.

If true, the decision raises additional questions over the independence of top law enforcement personnel. This follows a litany of controversies involving both Donald Trump and Biden where the FBI and DOJ have been accused of political bias and unequal treatment. While the FBI recently denounced critics as “conspiracy theorists,” the record of inexplicable decisions continues to grow by the day.

There is no plausible reason why, given the chance, the Justice Department would not want to conduct a national security search itself. After Nov. 2, the Justice Department was aware that material at the top secret or higher levels was discovered in a closet in the Penn Biden Center. It was also aware that the material may have been moved over the course of six years and that other material could be in other unsecured locations. Nevertheless, it reportedly opted to allow uncleared attorneys to search for additional classified material under a type of “look but please don’t read” edict.

As someone who has worked with classified evidence at the TS/SCI level since the Reagan administration, the decision is breathtaking. It effectively replaced well-established national security protocols with an honor system to be followed by persons unknown.

The decision undermines the credibility of the Justice Department in both the Biden and Trump investigations. The department is threatening criminal charges over the mishandling of classified material but opted for a grossly negligent approach itself in the search for additional classified documents. It just rolled the dice and lost. Additional documents were found by the uncleared lawyers. However, the Justice Department continued to defer to Biden’s counsel like a mere pedestrian at a potential crime scene. (Read more from “In Biden Documents Scandal, DOJ Shows Justice Is Not Only Blind — It’s Dumb” HERE)

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Supermajority Want Biden Document Scandal Probed

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President Joe Biden has been laughing off questions about his improper taking of classified documents after leaving the vice presidency in 2017, but most believe it was wrong, and a supermajority back the Justice Department’s investigation into his actions.

A whopping 76% said in a just-released Economist/YouGov survey that they support the department’s special investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents found in a Washington-based think tank and his Wilmington, Delaware, home.

That’s even higher than the 64% who back the Justice Department’s special investigation into former President Donald Trump’s decision to take classified information when he left the White House in 2021. . .

Biden, meanwhile, has not fully revealed all that he took and has at times said he was surprised to hear that his house, garage, and Washington office kept classified documents from the Obama era. On Tuesday, he smirked and refused to answer questions about his actions. (Read more from “Supermajority Want Biden Document Scandal Probed” HERE)

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White House Slapped With Ethics Complaint as Biden Classified Documents Scandal Spirals; Flashback: That Time Biden Derailed a Carter Nominee for…Possessing Classified Files

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By Fox News. A government watchdog filed a federal complaint over the involvement of the White House Counsel’s office in President Biden’s growing classified documents scandal.

Fox News Digital has learned that government watchdog Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) filed their complaint with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics on Tuesday.

“The American public will not tolerate a two-tiered system of justice – with well-connected insiders subject to a lower standard of scrutiny than the normal citizen,” PPT director Mike Chamberlain said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

“President Biden promised the most ethical and transparent administration in history,” Chamberlain said. “If the White House compounded a scandal involving possible mishandling of classified documents by improperly using taxpayer resources for his personal benefit and putting White House attorneys in positions that created conflicts of interest, we could be witnessing a serious betrayal of the public’s already-plummeting trust.”

“It also creates the spectre of possible obstruction of a congressional investigation, depending on the legal basis for the intervention and any future privileges claimed by the White House on this escalating scandal,” he added. (Read more from “White House Slapped With Ethics Complaint as Biden Classified Documents Scandal Spirals” HERE)

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Flashback: That Time Biden Derailed a Carter Nominee for…Possessing Classified Files

By Townhall. . .[A]s if the hypocrisy with this circus wasn’t bad enough, let’s rehash then-Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) torpedoed the CIA nomination of former Kennedy speechwriter Ted Sorensen under Jimmy Carter, heavily opposed by the intelligence community—Sorensen had no foreign policy experience. The Intercept thought it was worth mentioning. And it is: a broken clock is right twice a day. Biden gave the aura of supporting the nomination before delivering a haymaker to the nominee about his improper acquisition of classified materials. Biden sided with Senate Republicans to kill this nomination, which Sorensen, who passed away in 2010, said was an event that should have awarded Biden a “prize for political hypocrisy in a town noted for political hypocrisy” (via The Intercept):

The revelation that Biden illicitly stored classified materials, including in his garage, is a grave embarrassment to the president, particularly in light of the fact that Democrats have hammered away at Trump for months over the classified documents he retained at Mar-a-Lago. But there is also a relevant story from Biden’s past that bears mentioning.

The events took place during the administration of Jimmy Carter, when Biden was a rising star in the U.S. Senate and an inaugural member of the Intelligence Committee, which was established in response to the lawlessness of the Nixon administration. Biden colluded with Republicans on the Intelligence Committee to kill the nomination of a CIA critic to be director of the agency. Among the reasons was that the nominee, Ted Sorensen, had admitted to taking classified documents for a biography of his longtime friend John F. Kennedy and had spoken out in defense of Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg. In fact, Biden went so far as to suggest Sorensen might be subject to prosecution under the Espionage Act.

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When Sorensen came under attack from Republicans, though, Biden shifted his position and went out of his way to dig up an episode from Sorenson’s past that would serve as a red flag against his confirmation. Sorensen had given an affidavit in Ellsberg’s case, in which Sorensen acknowledged that many officials in Washington, including himself, would take classified documents home to review and that officials often leaked far more sensitive documents to the press without facing prosecutions.

Biden said he learned of the affidavit, which was never filed in court, from a Republican colleague and assessed that the Republicans on the committee would seek to use it to discredit Sorensen. Biden had his staff scour documents and Sorensen’s books to find the unfiled affidavit, and an aide who was involved with the Pentagon Papers case eventually located it. This, combined with other concerns, including allegations that Sorensen was a pacifist who dodged the Korean War draft, put the nomination in peril. “It was like being blindsided by a truck,” Sorensen said, describing the campaign against him as an effort where “many little dirty streams flowed together to make one large one.”

(Read more from “Flashback: That Time Biden Derailed a Carter Nominee for…Possessing Classified Files” HERE)

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White House Won’t Say if Feds Searching for More Biden Classified Docs or if Biden Is Involved in Search (VIDEO)

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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to say during Tuesday’s press briefing whether federal officials were still searching for additional classified documents from President Joe Biden’s time as vice president in the Obama administration.

“Last week [you said] that we all can assume, the American people could assume that the searches were completed and all the documents have been recovered,” the Associated Press reporter Zeke Miller said. “On Saturday, the White House Counsel’s Office said that five additional classified documents had been found.”

“Is it safe to assume now that all the documents have been recovered, all the official records, all the classified documents are back in [the] custody of the National Archives?” Miller asked. “Or are more searches underway to find out if there’s anything out there?”

Jean-Pierre refused to answer the question, claiming that she was being “prudent” by letting the DOJ’s special counsel investigation into Biden continue without commenting on it.

(Read more from “White House Won’t Say if Feds Searching for More Biden Classified Docs or if Biden Is Involved in Search” HERE)

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SATIRE: Sleepy Joe Can’t Stop Me From Buying F-15s for Protection Against Doddering Tyrants Like Him

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DAVOS—I hate it here. The food is under-portioned, overly garnished, and overpriced. Ditto the drugs and prostitutes. The company is as lousy as one might expect. Picture a bunch of rich nerds bereft of repartee, jacked up on virgin blood transfusions, pitching blockchain Ponzi schemes to Chinese fertilizer tycoons, raving about “eternal consciousness” and “driving inclusive impact by rescripting intentionally vis-à-vis diverse need-state expectations in the digital age.” Hunter Biden is the only cool person in attendance. Too bad his old man is a demented goon hellbent on destroying America.

“I love my right-wing friends who talk about ‘the tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots,'” President Joe Biden said Monday at an anti-Semitic breakfast rally. “If you need to work about taking on the federal government, you need some F-15s. You don’t need an AR-15.”

God love him. When he’s right, he’s right. The tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots. Our Founding Fathers held this truth to be self-evident. That’s why they so eloquently resolved that “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.”

That’s why I’ve come to Davos. To ensure the security of our free state against the brutish whims of petty tyrants like King George and Sleepy Joe. [Please redact the following: To liaise with corrupt Albanian and Turkish military officers regarding the lawful return of NATO F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets and MIM-104 Patriot missile systems to the American citizens whose tax dollars funded their development and manufacture.] To preserve our God-given right to defend ourselves with the advanced instruments of modern warfare.

We need some F-15s. Guns alone will not suffice against an “elected” president who threatens airstrikes against his political opponents. I review the U.S. Constitution every morning with a large mug of Black Rifle coffee. (I prefer the Flying Ginsu blend, infused with the remains of eviscerated terrorists.) Go ahead, show me the part that gives federal bureaucrats the power to infringe on private ownership of fighter jets, extended range cannon artillery, and surface-to-air missile launchers. (Read more from “SATIRE: Sleepy Joe Can’t Stop Me From Buying F-15s for Protection Against Doddering Tyrants Like Him” HERE)

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‘Not a Joke’ — Joe Biden Claims He Attended a Black Church Every Day After Morning Mass; Biden Caught in Yet Another Lie

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By Breitbart. President Joe Biden on Sunday claimed he attended a black Church in Delaware every morning after he attended Catholic Mass in high school.

“I may be a practicing Catholic, we used to go 7:30 am mass every morning in high school and college before I went to the blaWhen a Washington Beacon reporter asked if Biden had ever attended Union Baptist, Herring’s assistant, who worked with the reverend for nearly four decades, said— “no, not at our building.”

ck church,” he said. “Not a joke.”

Biden spoke about his personal experience with the black church during a visit to the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia to recognize Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. day.

The president has repeatedly claimed he was close with the black church in Delaware, despite longtime congregants saying they do not remember Biden attending the church.

Biden made a similar claim in October 2020, during a speech to the Bethlehem Baptist Church in South Carolina. (Read more from “‘Not a Joke’ — Joe Biden Claims He Attended a Black Church Every Day After Morning Mass” HERE)

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Biden Caught in Yet Another Lie

By Townhall. President Joe Biden has told lie after lie, getting caught each time. You’d think he’d learned his lesson by now.

In yet another fabrication of his, Biden claimed that he attended a black church in Delaware every morning after he attended Catholic mass in high school, despite members of the church not being able to recall the president ever being there. . .

However, his tall tale doesn’t quite fit the reality.

Congregants and longtime Rev. Otis Herring, an acclaimed pastor who died in 1996, told the Washington Beacon that they don’t remember Biden ever attending the church. . .

When a Washington Beacon reporter asked if Biden had ever attended Union Baptist, Herring’s assistant, who worked with the reverend for nearly four decades, said— “no, not at our building.” (Read more from “Biden Caught in Yet Another Lie” HERE)

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Even Liberal ‘Morning Joe’ Blasts Biden’s ‘Stumbling and Bumbling’ Classified Docs Response; Editor Recalls Another Time Biden Mishandled Classified Documents

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By New York Post. . .MSNBC’s White House-friendly “Morning Joe” program tore into the administration’s “stumbling and bumbling” response to the classified documents debacle Monday, following the weekend revelation that more sensitive records were found at the president’s Delaware home.

“By stumbling and bumbling around, by not getting their timeline right … we just showed a graphic that says an unknown number of documents found in Biden’s garage,” said co-host Joe Scarborough, a former Republican congressman. “No​ ​more unknown. No more unknown​.

“At this stage, we​’​re two months ​in. They need to clean this up​ … amateur hour is over, they need complete transparency and they just mishandled it from day one​,” he added. . .

Scarborough pointed out that the Biden administration’s piecemeal attempts to come clean about the documents are fueling suspicion among Republicans and others.

“Transparency, I think, works best for the Biden administration and works best for Biden himself because they find the documents​,​ they report​ it immediately,” he said. “A far different situation than [former President] Donald Trump’s​​ ​… ​It’s very clear to see politically and legally that there is a huge difference in the two cases. And yet Biden’s own worst enemy has been the way Biden’s staff and the way the Biden team has run this.” ​(Read more from “Even Liberal ‘Morning Joe’ Blasts Biden’s ‘Stumbling and Bumbling’ Classified Docs Response” HERE)

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Arizona Republic Editor Recalls Another Time Biden Mishandled Classified Documents: ‘Someone Screwed Up’

By Fox News. Arizona Republic executive editor Greg Burton penned an op-ed Sunday that recounted an instance in 2010 in which then Vice President Joe Biden and his staff mishandled classified documents.

“Long before today’s political mayhem, I came across a top secret document on a table in Joe Biden’s White House office,” Burton recalled. “The red warning on the cover caught my attention but my eyes drifted to the then-vice president’s keepsakes, a leather binder and photos of Jill, Beau, Hunter, Ashley and Champ.”

Burton said he was with Biden to interview him about the recovery to the 2008 financial crisis. . .

He pondered the severity of the offense of mishandling classified documents.

“Special counsels are investigating. Twitter is seething. Trump is pissed. Biden is surprised. Are these cases of espionage or overdue library books?” he asked. (Read more from “Arizona Republic Editor Recalls Another Time Biden Mishandled Classified Documents: ‘Someone Screwed Up’” HERE)

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Random Caller Tells Radio Host He Once Personally Covered up a ‘Mortifying’ Biden Security Breach

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This guy’s either a deeply pathological liar capable of building detailed and compelling fiction and delivering it without so much as a flinch … or he’s telling the truth. We legitimately can’t tell. Either way, an interesting moment unfolded during Friday’s The Vince Coglianese Show on WMAL, so interesting, in fact, that Coglianese — also Daily Caller’s editorial director — delayed his follow on interview to stay on the line.

A man called in Friday claiming he was sent to recover classified documents left in a hotel room by then-Vice President Joe Biden during the Obama years.

The man, who called himself “Fred” and said he needed to keep certain details vague to protect himself, said he was part of a trip where the then-VP left classified information in a hotel room somewhere in the continental United States. That information was allegedly discovered, presumably by hotel staff, who were definitely not supposed to have access to it.

Fred claimed that the information was the equivalent of a “presidential daily briefing,” suggesting huge amounts of highly classified domestic and international data was in the leftover documents. That information was accessed by individuals who were “absolutely not cleared” to see them, according to Fred.

“The issue at hand was the cavalier attitude of this,” Fred noted, stating that the Administration just “made it go away,” and staffers didn’t seem to see why this was a big deal. “Zero accountability for it,” Fred noted. “That was what was mortifying.” (Read more from “Random Caller Tells Radio Host He Once Personally Covered up a ‘Mortifying’ Biden Security Breach” HERE)

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Intel Veteran Knew Hunter Biden Laptop ‘Had to Be Real’ Before Signing Letter

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One of the 51 intelligence veterans who signed a letter suggesting the Hunter Biden laptop story could be part of a Russian disinformation operation said they knew the contents of the device were genuine at the time.

The letter, which came out in the days leading up to the 2020 presidential election, was used to dismiss the laptop and its provenance. Many of the contents of which have since been analyzed and shown to be authentic.

In a new interview more than two years later, Douglas Wise, a former Defense Intelligence Agency deputy director, told The Australian, “all of us figured that a significant portion of that content had to be real to make any Russian disinformation credible.”

The signees, which included former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan, warned in the letter that the October 2020 arrival of reporting about the laptop “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”

Going further than what the letter said, Politico used a headline that said the former intelligence officials were claiming the story was “Russian disinfo.” (Read more from “Intel Veteran Knew Hunter Biden Laptop ‘Had to Be Real’ Before Signing Letter” HERE)

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WATCH: Biden Forgets Name Of MLK’s Daughter-In-Law While Singing ‘Happy Birthday’ To Her

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President Joe Biden appeared to forget the name of Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter-in-law while singing “Happy Birthday” to her on Monday while speaking at a left-wing event.

The incident happened as the 80-year-old president addressed the National Action Network, which is run by Al Sharpton, Martin Luther King III, and his wife.

“Martin the Third, we celebrate a legacy of your beloved father and mother. They worked for the beloved community. But congratulations today to the honorees including your wife, who I understand it’s her birthday today?” Biden said of 49-year-old Arndrea Waters King.

“Well look, my wife has a rule in our family, when it’s someone’s birthday, you sing ‘Happy Birthday,’” Biden continued. “You ready?” . . .

“Happy Birthday dear [inaudible],” Biden concluded. “Happy Birthday to you.” (Read more from “WATCH: Biden Forgets Name Of MLK’s Daughter-In-Law While Singing ‘Happy Birthday’ To Her” HERE)

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