The Biden documents investigation and differential treatment
They’re investigating Joe Biden’s mishandling of classified documents:
The federal investigation into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents prior to becoming president has grown into a sprawling examination of Obama-era security protocols and internal White House processes, with investigators so far interviewing scores of witnesses, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, sources familiar with the investigation told ABC News.
Federal prosecutors and FBI agents from special counsel Robert Hur’s office have been interviewing witnesses for nearly nine months, targeting an expansive constellation of former aides — from high-level advisers to executive assistants and at least one White House attorney. Several sources estimated that as many as 100 witnesses have already been interviewed, with interviews conducted as recently as last week and some witnesses asked to return for follow-up interviews.
That’s an ABC story, and note the language. I used the term “mishandling,” but they use the even less pejorative term “handling.” The message in those paragraphs is not only to norm what happened, but also to give the impression that any investigation will be mega-thorough and extremely dogged in its pursuit of the truth. Cynics among us (and that’s most of us) don’t quite buy it.
Next paragraph:
Sources who were present for some of the interviews, including witnesses, told ABC News that authorities had apparently uncovered instances of carelessness from Biden’s vice presidency, but that — based on what was said in the interviews — it seemed to them that the improper removal of classified documents from Biden’s office when he left the White House in 2017 was more likely a mistake than a criminal act.
Is anyone surprised at this basically foreordained conclusion?
The rest of the article goes on and on about how thorough the investigation is, and then contrasts the cooperation of the Biden forces with authorities versus Trump’s alleged lack of cooperation. Unless I missed it, there is no discussion of the difference between a Vice President or senator – Biden at the time the documents were taken – having such documents, versus a president (Trump) possessing them.
There’s also this:
[Special counsel] Hur has vowed to conduct a “fair, impartial, and dispassionate” investigation, following the facts “thoroughly” and “without fear or favor.”
So now we all believe that’s the way it has been and will be, right?
Democrats will contend it is so. The right believes the opposite. But it’s the people in the middle who interest me. I can’t help but wonder whether many of them will see the disparity in treatment and agree that Trump is being persecuted and Biden let off easy. That could end up being reflected at the ballot box in 2024, because I think there still are many Americans who do believe in equal justice, and don’t see it happening these days.
“Hur has vowed to conduct a “fair, impartial, and dispassionate” investigation, following the facts “thoroughly” and “without fear or favor.”
Sort of like Judge Roy Bean, who always gave every defendant a fair trial before he hanged him.
Mushandled documents, inadvertently and innocently.
“Gambling? I’m shocked. Shocked.”
Chief Inspector Clouseau is on the case.
“[Special counsel] Hur has vowed to conduct a ‘fair, impartial, and dispassionate’ investigation, following the facts ‘thoroughly’ and ‘without fear or favor.'”
Dude’s got nothing to fear because he is in the entrenched regime’s favor.
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Wonder if this Robert Hur bloke has a son named “Ben” . . .
Decent Joe would never ever do something like that.
It’s clearly all a conspiracy theory.
Just like Hunter’s laptop.
I mean, do you really think Hunter Biden even knows how to use a laptop?
Really? (I mean, you can’t exactly smoke it…)
Strange thing about conspiracy theories, though, is that folks have been noticing they’ve become kinda—make that, “real”—accurate over the past decade or more…
(Or some of ’em have been noticing, at least.)
Speaking of crazy conspiracy theories:
‘ “A CIA Front Organization”: Revisiting EcoHealth COVID-19 Claims After Fauci ‘Influence’ Campaign Bombshell’—
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/cia-front-organization-revisiting-ecohealth-claims-after-fauci-influence-campaign
Of course, that can’t be…since EVERYONE knows it’s the bats that dunnit.
Or those pangolin thangs. Raccoon dogs?
It’s all natural. 100% natural.
(My, what a tangled virus we weave….)
“…Sort of like Judge Roy Bean…”
…or Jack “We-Have-One-Set-of-Laws-in-This-Country-and-They-Apply-to-Everyone” Smith.
M J R:
Since the word “ben” means “son” in Hebrew, any son of Hur would be Ben Hur. The fictional character was actually named Judah Ben Hur.
In general the laws on Classified materials do not allow for mistakes. You are not allowed to remove the material. It is not an intent crime. I didn’t mean to is excluded and you have to mean not to. Frankly, this kind of material should not be left in the offices either. There should be rooms where it is and you go there to look at it. You go in with nothing and leave with nothing except what is in your head. When it is left in a place where it can be comingled with non-classified paper it is inevitable that it will be mishandled.
The word I heard is that Hur’s investigation will be general and system-oriented. He’s going to look at procedures for dealing with documents in the Obama years and earlier and put the blame there, and let Joe more or less off the hook.