Classified files found at President's former office...
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@George-K said in Classified files found at President's former office...:
Visitor logs to Penn Biden center deleted.
Looks like a fairly typical “3 year” visitor log retention policy. “Penn Biden Center” is part of the University of Pennsylvania; and a “3 year” visitor log retention policy does not sound unreasonable for a university. Heck, even a “1 year” or “2 year” retention policy is fine for a university. Why mention “2017”? Because the “Penn Biden Center” nominally opened in 2018; not unreasonable to account for any potential “soft opening” that might have happened in late 2017, and in any event no “visitor logs” would have been established before that anyway.
Somebody has to show how the treatment of that visitor logs is somehow different from UPenn’s typical treatment of visitor logs before this is newsworthy.
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@George-K said in Classified files found at President's former office...:
Visitor logs to Penn Biden center deleted.
Looks like a fairly typical “3 year” visitor log retention policy. “Penn Biden Center” is part of the University of Pennsylvania; and a “3 year” visitor log retention policy does not sound unreasonable for a university. Heck, even a “1 year” or “2 year” retention policy is fine for a university. Why mention “2017”? Because the “Penn Biden Center” nominally opened in 2018; not unreasonable to account for any potential “soft opening” that might have happened in late 2017, and in any event no “visitor logs” would have been established before that anyway.
Somebody has to show how the treatment of that visitor logs is somehow different from UPenn’s typical treatment of visitor logs before this is newsworthy.
@Axtremus said in Classified files found at President's former office...:
Somebody has to show how the treatment of that visitor logs is somehow different from UPenn’s typical treatment of visitor logs before this is newsworthy.
Somebody has to show why the former Vice-President, who left office before the center opened, had these files in his possession to begin with.
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@jon-nyc said in Classified files found at President's former office...:
Hur himself outlined how much more serious the allegations against Trump are in his Biden report.
https://www.justice.gov/storage/report-from-special-counsel-robert-k-hur-february-2024.pdf
On page 250, he comments on the fact that Biden cooperated and Trump did not. That doesn't change the actual nature of the crime, does it? Obstruction of justice is a separate allegation.
I just searched the PDF for mention of "Trump" and that, other than citing court precedents, that's the only "much more serious" allegation I could find.
Perhaps I missed it?
@George-K said in Classified files found at President's former office...:
On page 250, he comments on the fact that Biden cooperated and Trump did not. That doesn't change the actual nature of the crime, does it? Obstruction of justice is a separate allegation.
An explanation of the extent of Biden's crimes when it comes to classified documents.
McCarthy: Why Biden Cooperated
But with Biden, there is immense evidence of cooperation. Why? Because his offenses were so serious, long-term, and sprawling.
For decades, Biden hoarded highly sensitive intelligence, including removing it from safekeeping on Capitol Hill, which senators well know they are not allowed to do. Biden, moreover, had many private locations — homes and offices — and irresponsibly spread the mounds of classified documents across them. It’s not like he had a single storage area, and it’s not like he made real efforts to keep his various storage locations secure — to deny access to people who were not authorized to read classified documents. Finally, Biden was so reckless and his offenses were so persistent, that he could not keep track of the classified documents he had retained.
On that last point, Biden apologists make much of the president’s “self-reporting” of his crimes. But he didn’t “self-report.” Instead, a first batch was unexpectedly discovered by private Biden lawyers, who were not authorized to have access to intelligence (certainly not intelligence classified at high levels). Those Biden underlings reported their discovery to the White House, not to the FBI. Biden was hoping to return the batch to government storage at the National Archives and Records Administration. But upon retrieving the documents, NARA officials — again, not Biden or his staff — alerted the National Security Division of the Biden Justice Department. (See Hur Report, pp. 19–20.)
Understand, then, that Biden did not cooperate because he is a well-meaning, law-abiding person. He cooperated because his offenses were so extensive that the FBI needed to search several locations for lots of classified intelligence that he’d willfully retained for decades in violation of federal laws with which he was intimately familiar — laws that, by the time he was found out, he had taken an oath to execute faithfully.
While we should give Biden credit for cooperating, in his case the cooperation should be seen as a measure of the gravity of his offenses, not as a reason to refrain from prosecuting him.
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No, Trump needed to be indicted.
Because Trump.
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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Hur testified that there is “a damage assessment “going on in the intelligence community about what might have been compromising information inadvertently released by Biden’s carelessness with classified documents.
Oh, and Swallwell spent 3 of his five minutes talking about….Trump.
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What do you call that machine?
Twice on the same day, Biden struggled to find the words for "fax machine."
*" You see where there's a printer and there's a–what do they call it, the machine that–?" he asked until White House counsel Ed Siskel offered up "fax machine" in both instances.
I'm so old that I remember when someone on TOCR said that McCain was not competent to run for president because he didn't know how to email.
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@Jolly said in Classified files found at President's former office...:
Because Trump.
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/12/robert-hur-biden-testimony-hearing
- Biden's case isn't Trump's case.
Republicans didn't get much satisfaction when they pressed Hur on a part of his report that annoyed them the most: The significant differences between the Biden case and the one in which Trump was charged.
Biden cooperated with investigators, agreed to searches and volunteered to be interviewed. Trump is accused of hiding documents from investigators and lying about having them — "serious aggravating facts," Hur's report said.
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It's all bullshit. Some of us won't admit it, but the bogus legal charges, the lockstep media, the hide-the-button with Congress...It's all bullshit.
The American people deserve better.
It's time to cut the staff of the Executive Branch and Congressional staff by one-third. It's time to limit the time Congress can meet, except in declared energencies. It's past time to severely scrutinize the income of people in public office. We need to abolish or combine multiple departments and decentralize some of them. If COVID proved anything, we don't need as many drones in Washington.
And we need to re-establish co-equal branches of government. Reign in the imperial presidency a bit, make Congress pass and adhere to a budget and put equal justice under the law back into the Justice Department.
