Among the items from Joe Biden’s time as vice president discovered in a private office last fall are 10 classified documents including US intelligence memos and briefing materials that covered topics including Ukraine, Iran and the United Kingdom, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has received a preliminary report on the documents inquiry, a law enforcement source said, and now faces the critical decision on how to proceed, including whether to open a full-blown criminal investigation.
John Lausch Jr., the US attorney in Chicago, has briefed Garland multiple times. No additional briefings are scheduled but would be conducted if necessary, a source said.
The classified documents were dated between 2013 and 2016, according to the source familiar. They were found in three or four boxes also containing unclassified papers that fall under the Presidential Records Act.
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The documents were discovered on November 2, just six days before the midterm elections, but the matter only became public Monday due to news reports.
NBC News reported Wednesday that at least one more batch of classified documents had been found by Biden’s aides at another location connected to him.
Just an hour or so before that report, at Wednesday’s White House Press Briefing, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declined to answer questions about whether then-former Vice President Biden had used other office s were other classified documents might have been kept.
Now we see how serious Republicans in the house are about playing by Democrat rules. Pelosi would have had an impeachment vote by now if it was Trump.
Be interesting to see one democrat in the senate break for impeachment and force kamala to cast the tie breaker. Her one chance to become president and break the glass ceiling yet again. Hahahaha.
Edit: or do they need 60 votes in senate? Can’t remember.
I believe it’s a 67% vote required to impeach the SOB. So, Plugs could kill puppies, be a Satan worshipper and eat children, but the Demarxists would still protect Dear Leader.
Those minor defects tend to be democrat strong points. Other than eating them children are fair game for those folks.
DanBK
The DOJ will stand up for Bidet, Garland is a Joo, don’t cha no?
Where’s “Major”, Bohemian Grove and Pizza Gate.
Explains the Mar a Largo raid.
Exactly. A pre-emptive strike.
. . . the matter only became public Monday due to news reports.
More like “lack of news reports,” amirite?
impeachment comes from the house, simple majority. The Senate conducts a trial, 2/3 required to impeach.
Rumour is they are evidence of criminality by BO and Hillary, kind of “Arkancide” insurance.
There should be charges and nothing will happen. It won’t even make the media cycle. They will probably prosecute the one that leaked it.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/01/10/joy_behar_we_dont_think_biden_is_a_liar_and_a_thief_so_we_give_him_the_benefit_of_the_doubt_on_classified_docs.html
“Joy Behar on Biden’s classified documents: “We all know that Trump is a liar and a thief. We know that. So it’s not that big a jump to say that he obstructed and he lied. We don’t think Biden is a liar and a thief, so we give him the benefit of the doubt.”
Excellent analysis by political expert Joy Behar.
Evidence by FEELS. The way of the left.
If she actually said that, then it falls under libel or slander. She should be up to her arse in lawyers if she said that on live TV.
President Trump had the known authority and right to declassify any and all documents he chooses. VP Biden had no such authority, only the President has the right and authority.
President Trump has the protections of the Presidential Records Act to allow him to keep any records and memorabilia he wishes. There are no similar Vice Presidential Records Act protections for Biden’s records.
What Trump did is not illegal. Biden? Not so much.
+++rd. Sadly most people are not aware of that little fact.
VOWG
were’s alla unDORK to tell us you are wrong?????
RD…
Bingo.
This is false. The president cannot keep any record he wishes after his term is over. The records belong to the government, classified or not. There is a small carve out for personal records.
Yes, you are f****** wrong as usual.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Records_Act
Knock yourself out.
I thought a court said the Clinton could keep whatever records he wanted, that the president was arbiter of record disposition. Obama kept 33 million,obviously personal, records.
False and false.
Sooooo … Obama’s new $300M Library … in the shape of a mosque … will be filled with snapshots of his children? And nothing else? Right. Got it.
Tell me you don’t know how presidential libraries work without telling me you don’t know how presidential libraries work
“This presidential library efficiently converts sand into cheese.” How’m I doin’?
He only kept photocopies, not the originals.
The Jan 6 US playbook has been transferred to Brasil on Jan 8. The demonstrators were egged on by agents provocateurs, according to some, and are now being held in detention and called terrorists. It is being used as an excuse for a crackdown on Lula’s opposition and even calls for the property of Bolsanaro and co. to be taken.
I wonder how many classified documents are in Biden’s papers he gave the University of Delaware?
Do the employees reviewing the documents have the proper security classification?
Scott Adams had a pretty good analysis on the subject this morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X-DmlCxiHU
@ about 23:10
Come on maaa’aaaan … most of those documents were “top secret” plans for Joe’s daughter’s wedding … and pictures of Hunter’s bastard daughter with the stripper. Just like … HER … emails.
Shhhhhh … the Bidinh Admin. just extended the “health emergency” … so they can continue to bypass the US Constitution whenever and wherever they want.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/us-extends-covid-public-health-emergency-maintaining-access-to-care/
Hint: “access to care” = unchecked Federal spending … outside any regulatory or Congressional authorization. And sayyyyyy … wasn’t Obamakkare supposed to “maintain access” to healthcare for everyone?
And a second set of Classified documents has been found at another Biden office.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna65371
Wonder how many Hunter has?
Or Joe’s brother?
or Dr Jill?
Plus there’s Joe’s document stash at University of Delaware.
I presume that Joe wouldn’t think of having Hunter spend his nights in hotels whenever he was in one of the cities where Joe was keeping those classified records.
i suspect the laptop is chalk full of them .
Didn’t Sandy Berger take a rap for Clinton?
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7351422
We know biden lies most of the time. That is to say when he remembers to lie.
The Deep State are liquidating Joe Biden. This is a move to get rid of him and his baggage.
Something big coming
yes. the MSM have turned on him , and kamala is as scarce as a whore in church.
Watch
yup!
“at least one more batch of classified documents had been found by Biden’s aides at another location connected to him.”
Lol…too funny. So let’s recap…”Biden’s aides” and his “personal lawyer” found classified stuff and …wait for it…turned it in???? Oh sure. Because as we all know, anyone connected to Democrats in any way shape or form are paragons of virtue. Nah, don’t think so.
You have to be high to think this isn’t a setup of some kind. Likely a “Make senile Joe Go away” scheme because the guy is an anchor or a way for Garland to avoid going after Trump for the embarrassing Trump Mara Lago raid.
I call B.S.
It’s a trap.
Without a doubt … the RAID on Mar a Lago … was a preemptive narrative smokescreen. Ohhhhh mommmmaaaaaa … Joe is so sorry, and he’s being soooo cooperative. He had no idea those secret documents were there back in Sept. when PDJT’s privacy was violated by Federal jackboots. Nope. And Joe STILL doesn’t know what the documents are, or why they’re in his Beach house …
The investigators overlooked the old dusty computer lying on a corner. No, no, not Hunter Biden’s laptop!! Hilary’s “on the side” e-mail server…