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“Like a car, only better.” This Corvette slogan, which sold many cars, wasn’t used until last week when it came to classified documents.President Joe Biden said Thursday of Fox’s In response to a question from Peter Doocy about the disclosure of additional classified documents found in the garage next to his Corvette at his home in Delaware. is not sitting in the street.”
Like his car, confidential documents seemed better kept in the garage.
Biden’s 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is definitely the car to watch. Most of us take stingrays over the classified Ukrainian briefing documents and assortment of notes. But foreign intelligence agencies may be more discerning.
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The fact is that the argument that you protected classified documents as carefully as a Corvette doesn’t cut it in criminal law. It can be criminal. The Department of Justice cited provisions including 18 USC 793 (Collection or transmission of defensive information) and 18 USC 2071 (General concealment, deletion, or mutilation).
Despite that history, many experts have publicly assured that there were no criminal acts involving Biden, and there were several leaks without any evidence.
Lawrence Tribe, a Harvard University professor, has written criminal law on what Donald Trump should be charged with, including witness tampering, obstruction of justice, criminal election violations, Logan Act violations, extortion, espionage, and treason by Trump or his family. was previously examined.
He even argued that “beyond reasonable doubt, beyond doubt, the crime is clear.” Trump should be charged with the attempted murder of former Vice President Mike Pence. .
Yet, when Biden was similarly accused of unlawful possession of classified information, the tribe needed no further proof. “One is a criminal (Trump) and one is not a criminal (Biden). In plain English,” he declared.
Mueller’s Chief of Staff Andrew Weissman added, “It is not a crime to misappropriately obtain and retain government documents. If you know you have the documents and return them, there is no crime.” rice field.
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Clearly, the Justice Department disagreed. To appoint a special prosecutor, the Attorney Generalthat a criminal investigation of a person or matter is justifiedThis does not mean that criminal activity exists in this case, but the law prefers to wait for a little bit of evidence before making a final judgment, at least for the sake of appearance.
Biden’s lawyers argue that this is simply “misguided.” That statement is betrayed by several facts. First, it seems likely that these documents have been moved multiple times. Biden resigned as Vice President in 2017. He probably had these documents with him at the time. However, they ended up elsewhere, including one document that he found separate from the residence’s “garage files.”
Additionally, Biden had an office at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia after his term ended in 2017.
Biden was unable to move to the Washington, D.C. office until later that year. Therefore, these documents had to be moved from another location by moving trucks and personnel. They then sat in the office for years while other classified documents lay in his garage with his Corvette.
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At some point some papers were sent to the office and some to the residence and garage. If not based on what the VP at the time was working on, how did you explain this split?
The “inadvertent” defense is seldom consistent with these facts. Moreover, if Biden were to deal with any of these documents for his book (which dealt with some of the underlying subjects like Ukraine), not only would the careless defense be crushed, but later It could be cited as an effort to deceive the public.
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Public statements from the president and his staff already raise concerns. The White House was already aware that classified documents had been found not just in one, but in three (Penn Biden’s office, garage, and residence). But the president said only the Penn-Biden office documents mattered.
Finally, I have a question about timelines. There appeared to be a general lack of urgency from the government, despite the finding of documents classified at high “Top Secret/Classified Information” (TS/SCI) levels.
However, it took the Archives two days to notify the Department of Justice. It then took him seven days from discovery until the FBI conducted a risk assessment. Most notably, after classified material was discovered in two locations, the last classified document was found by a private attorney. That was December 20th. Given the repeated finds in various locations, it’s not clear if the FBI asked for or was allowed to conduct its own search prior to his December 20th.
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Garland eventually made the appointment, but he appears to have made one big gain for Biden. Biden’s allegedly influential peddler who justified the appointment of a special counsel long ago There was no mention of scandal.
But we may soon see an extraordinary historic development, with each leading presidential candidate campaigning with their assigned special counsel.
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