No one in the media or on the left has any curiosity how Biden became so rich raising a large family on a Senator’s salary.
Casual_Observer2020
1 year ago
Biden is a nincompoop who is incompetent. Trump is playing 5D chess. Only one of them actually intentionally stole top secret (not just classified) documents.
Lisa_Hooker
1 year ago
This is all much ado about nothing.
President Biden declassified all those documents, and probably more.
He simply forgot to remember that he did.
Bam_Man
1 year ago
They are going to need a big “distraction” to direct attention away from the upcoming collapse of Ukraine’s military.
Joe’s impeachment will do just fine.
Zardoz
1 year ago
They did nothing to Hillary for her email breach.
They did nothing to trump those documents.
Nothing will happen to Biden.
KidHorn
1 year ago
This whole thing is very fishy. The DOJ is the gestapo of the democratic party. They could have collected these documents and never said a word. They actually did that for months. I always thought Biden’s days would be numbered after the mid terms. The house will launch investigations and the Biden’s are neck deep in dirt. I always thought when the time came, the DOJ would threaten to throw Hunter in jail if Joe didn’t cooperate. There’s enough obvious evidence to put him away for decades. My guess is the plan is for Joe to step down before much damage can be done by the house. if the Biden’s are out, the house investigations are pointless.
And then we’ll replace the worst president ever with someone even worse.
Phew! Luckily Biden is a Democrat. If he was a Republican this would have been an extremely serious security threat, possibly treasonous, and special committees would have to be set up to investigate and make sure it never happens again.
JRM
1 year ago
Hey Mish, how quickly did you comment on the “CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS” Trump had???
Odd you didn’t mention it, until the SECOND BATCH is found!!!
Communist News Network reported the first batch was found in a envelope marked “PERSONAL”!!!
Meaning Biden was “HIDING” it, it you follow the DEMOCAT logics on Trump!!!
These latest developments proves Trump will not be “CHARGED”!!!!
So what “CLASSIFIED’ documents does other former VP and Presidents have in their possession??
I’m betting everyone of them!!!
Call_Me
1 year ago
In a particularly insightful moment, perhaps this will motivate people across the political spectrum to reduce the amount of information the government apparatus keeps from the citizenry.
Call_Me_Al
Six000mileyear
1 year ago
Let’s hoot some more. Biden want to pass expensive green projects while he drives a gas guzzling Corvette.
In fairness, his days of driving (are/should be) in the past 🙂
Call_Me_Al
ERB
1 year ago
Appears to be a third batch! Any word on that?
TheCaptain
1 year ago
“I suspect this will be the end of the Mar-a-Lago discussion by mainstream media.”
Really? Why? Liberals are shameless. Their native tongues are sophistry and double standards. They will simply ignore this like it wasn’t important. I have already seen them comparing the number of documents as a metric of relative not badness without one peep about the fact that trump had his in a locked room at the advice of the security experts in government. Also the number of docs is unimportant. It’s the content that is important. One document about the US nuclear program back during its development would be more important than a million other classified documents, combined.
The people constantly commenting on Trump are naive enough to believe that somehow “their side” is always righteous and innocent. They don’t seem to realize that the very act of being a Democrat requires a complete dislocation from reality and objective truth. They are the result of post-modern relativistic thought, and I believe a good portion of them suffer from mental illness of varying degrees and shades.
Every single person who handles the nation’s secrets signs the exact same piece of paper acknowledging they have to always follow the very simple procedures for safeguarding the material and that there are no excuses ever for mishandling this information, even inadvertently. “I didn’t know is never a valid excuse.”
Everyone in the media propaganda apparatus trying to create ambiguity for Hillary with her “Homebrew Server” was complicit in denying the simple fact she badly broke the law by intentionally, willfully, purposefully, taking this information off of government machines and networks to hide her criminal pay-to-play schemes and keep her own (likely), criminal message traffic completely hidden in perpetuity for even FOIA requests.
The people at the top are undermining the nation’s security intentionally and breaking the law intentionally. These acts of mishandling information are never accidental, and there is never any ambiguity. You are either 100% compliant with the law, or you broke it. Period.
That’s one explanation. Another explanation is Brandon is not only incompetent, but corrupt, even treasonous. This explains why his lawyers are searching for documents–attorney-client privilege. Anyone who voted for this clown should be ashamed.
Uh no. It’s impossible to know what the future holds so you can’t classify based on that. And, a lot of times something that is in and of itself is classified because of the source of the information. Example: how often does Putin change his underwear? I’d venture to say that’s insignificant, but if it became public then that would probably mean US intelligence had infiltrated his household establishment. Consequently, that would probably be classified at above a top secret level.
Of course, secrecy can be abused, no doubt about that.
Jmurr
1 year ago
It’s curious that improper storage of classified documents is treated seriously while extrajudicial killing by drone bomb is perfectly fine.
Garland is as corrupt as the president he serves. Now, he is caught with his pants down and has no choice but to go through the motions of investigating.
Doug78
1 year ago
DOJ Indicts Trump For Biden’s Possession Of Classified Documents
It is embarrassing for the Democrats. Democrats supposedly control the bureaucracy of the three branches of government yet this and much more embarrassing things are leaking out. It started as a drip and now its a torrent. We will see if this results in a very much needed housecleaning. If so it a job that will last years.
davebarnes2
1 year ago
Merrick appointed a special counsel. Let’s see how it plays out.
CRZYHUN
1 year ago
Sure sign of dementia …
Does he even have a drivers license? Or is the vet-ting up on blocks?
Why even hide it there? In a gayhrage?
OHKAY!
Captain Ahab
1 year ago
For SPECIAL ACCESS, TS/SCI SI-VRK ONLY (as high as classifications go), Biden’s Corvette/garage is no doubted rated as a ‘secure place’. LMAO–the hypocrisy of the left has no bounds.
You are correct ,it is a mental disorder . They can justify anything or pretend not to know .
threeblindmice
1 year ago
Curiously, no one has mentioned Hilary’s deliberate setting up of an unsecure private server, confirmed presence of classified information, destruction of 30K-some docs, probable interception by foreign agencies, deliberate destruction of files under subpoena (with additional “bleach-bit” erasure), passing through SOME of the documents for review after her attorneys went through it. All the while Comey concludes ‘no prosecutor would take this’ while ignoring the criminality.
No one mentioned it? It was investigated for about 8 years.
LM2022
1 year ago
Biden’s lawyers found the documents at Biden’s residence and voluntarily turned them over. Trump carted off boxes of classified documents to Maro Lago and then he and his advisors and lawyers all lied about it. Repeatedly. Sure, let’s have that full and thorough investigation.
Except Trump never lied about it. And had been working with the FBI for months.
And the far more important issue is how secure were the documents? Trumps were in a safe in a highly secured building. Biden’s were in an open garage and at some money laundering operation under the guise of a university library in Georgetown.
This affair again demonstrates a general inability to override political affiliation and bias when one’s own ‘team’ is guilty of the same thing that causes one to scream righteous indignation at ‘the other guy.’ This lack of objectivity and principles is one of the reasons why we’re f$%ked as a nation.
First of all I’m an independent. I hate both parties. However, I prefer the general ineptitude of the democrats to the malignant treason of the republicans . As I said before, let’s have a full and thorough investigation of both.
Right. I forgot. Trump could magically declassify documents (that he denied he had) just by thinking about them!
rktbrkr
1 year ago
NARA looks dysfunctional. Controls over classified docs seem incredibly loose. NARA needs a professional, objective management audit (not a Gym Jordan scream-fest). I assume there are docs at other former Prezzes and veeps. Quayle probably has some in his man-cave with his golf trophies.
radar
1 year ago
I work as a defense contractor and if they found classified documents at my home they’d put me under the jail.
I think the FBI is waiting until they demand all documents back, Biden’s people sign acknowledgement it’s all back, and THEN they can go find the illegally withheld documents. The cognitive dissonance in falsely equating these scenarios is pretty notable. Ask yourself, could Biden have burned all the documents and nobody been the wiser? After six years, and no requests for the records, it’s not like the Archives had any clue these docs existed. The only risk Biden’s team took was by doing the honest thing. The only risk Trump took was by doing the DIShonest thing. That should be pretty elementary for everyone to deduce. Please don’t mistake this for making excuses for Biden. Just differentiating between dramatically different scenarios.
“My administration will bring transparency and truth back to government.”
-Joe Biden, January 20, 2021
Show us the malignant treason of the Republicans, we are waiting…