Classified documents from Biden’s time as VP discovered

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House Judiciary Committee Announces Probe Into Biden’s Classified Document Scandal


WENDELL HUSEBØ
13 Jan 2023

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Friday announced a new investigation into President Joe Biden’s classified document scandal in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland.



The House Judiciary Committee’s investigation follows Rep. James Comer’s Oversight Committee investigation into the matter, along with the Justice Department’s special counsel’s probe.



“On January 12, 2023, you appointed Robert Hur as Special Counsel to investigate these matters,” Jordan and Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) wrote. “The circumstances of this appointment raise fundamental oversight questions that the Committee routinely examines. We expect your complete cooperation with our inquiry.”

Jordan raised questions about the peculiar timing of the public disclosure of the stashed documents in January by Biden’s attorneys. The letter continued:



It is unclear when the Department first came to learn about the existence of these documents, and whether it actively concealed this information from the public on the eve of the 2022 elections. It is also unclear what interactions, if any, the Department had with President Biden or his representatives about his mishandling of classified material. The Department’s actions here appear to depart from how it acted in similar circumstances.



The letter also slammed Garland for the seemingly duplicitous form of justice of approving a raid on former President Trump’s residence while abstaining from the same measure against Biden. The congressmen wrote:



In fact, on August 8, 2022, despite the publicly available evidence of President Trump’s voluntary cooperation, you personally approved the decision to seek a warrant for excessive and unprecedented access to his private residence. On August 15, 2022, Committee Republicans wrote to you and FBI Director Christopher Wray requesting documents and information related to the FBI’s raid of President Trump’s residence.



The investigations into Biden’s mishandling of classified documents come as Biden administration officials have reportedly begun blaming the National Archives for not properly taking care to protect the classified information when Biden left the White House in 2017.



Biden’s personal attorneys have admitted the president had at least three troves of stashed documents in three separate locations, including Biden’s garage in Delaware and the Penn Biden Center in Washington, DC. It is unknown why Biden’s personal attorneys were initially looking for the classified documents.



Some of the classified documents discovered are related to Ukraine. The Biden family business has an extensive history in Ukraine. In 2017, Hunter Biden was paid $83,000 per month to be on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company. Hunter was appointed to the board of Burisma in 2014 with no previous experience in the energy sector or in Ukraine.



According to Breitbart News’s senior contributor Peter Schweizer, Hunter made massive sums of money from Ukraine for which he “offered no real work.”



In 2015, Joe Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion from Ukraine if the Ukrainian government did not fire the prosecutor who was investigating Burisma.



Hunter’s salary was cut in half when then-Vice President Joe Biden left the White House in 2017. In that same year, Joe Biden visited Ukraine to deliver a farewell address; his sixth visit in seven years.



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Report: Biden Family Confidant Kathy Chung Questioned by Law Enforcement About Classified Docs


WENDELL HUSEBØ
13 Jan 2023

President Joe Biden’s former executive assistant Kathy Chung, hired to the post on Hunter’s recommendation, was reportedly questioned by law enforcement in relation to the classified documents stashed in three separate locations.



Chung, who currently serves as deputy director of protocol for Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, was questioned by law enforcement for her role in packing then-Vice President Joe Biden’s documents in January 2017, NBC News reported.



Chung’s employment as Joe Biden’s assistant was in part due to Hunter, who recommended his father to hire her, according to Hunter’s laptop emails. Previously working as former Sen. Mark Udall’s scheduler, Chung replaced Michele Smith in the position.



“Thanks for calling and thinking of me,” Chung responded to Hunter on May 14, 2012. “After the initial shock of taking in what you said…how could I pass up an opportunity to work for the Vice President of the United State!!!! I do have a few questions. What is Michelle’s primary job? I think I know what the job would entail, minus the scheduling part, which is a huge part of what I do now. But what would be my top 3 – 5 responsibilities be in the office? Do you know the salary? Again, thanks for thinking of me.”



“Call if/when you want me to tell Dad you are interested and I’m sure Michele would also want to talk to you at some point,” Hunter added. “I don’t know who else they were considering but I thought you would be great.”



On June 13, 2012, Chung emailed Hunter to thank him for the position. “I cannot thank you enough for thinking about me and walking me thru this,” she said. “What an incredible opportunity! Thanks, Hunter!!”



Hunter and Chung remained in close contact over the course of Joe Biden’s tenure as vice president. Their correspondence included arranging Biden family business meetings between Chinese President Xi Jinping, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, and notably the former University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann, who Joe Biden later picked as U.S. ambassador to Germany.



The University of Pennsylvania is the entity that hosts the Penn Biden Center and where the first trove of stashed classified documents was disclosed.



Chung’s relationship with Hunter was so close that Hunter even offered her a job with him and his business partner Eric Schwerin at their firm Rosemont Seneca. Hunter and Schwerin met with Joe Biden at the White House on numerous occasions.



According to the Daily Mail, Schwerin had personal access to an account owned by Joe, depositing a tax refund check into it and purportedly sending money from that account to Hunter. Joe Biden and Hunter shared bank accounts. At least 150 of Hunter’s bank transactions have been flagged by U.S. banks as suspicious.



On Thursday, Rep. Mark Green (R-FL), chair of Homeland Security, demanded “a forensic analysis on everybody” who had access to Penn Biden Center and Joe Biden’s residence. Classified documents were found in Joe Biden’s garage.



Joe Biden admitted in 2016 that Hunter had access to his father’s garage. Moreover, Hunter owned Joe Biden’s residence in 2018, according to a document unearthed by New York Post’s Miranda Devine on Thursday.


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Hunter Lived at Home Where Dad’s Classified Docs Were Found

by Kari Donovan

January 13, 2023




Speculation is building about the latest earth-moving scandal to come out of the Democrat Joe Biden ‘crime family’, as the points of data are coming together to form a sinister picture of what exactly the Biden family was doing since Joe Biden became Vice President.



According to a recent report from Just The News, China allegedly funds Joe Biden’s office at the Penn Biden Center, which is the center of controversy over stolen government documents. The report from John Solomon is that the office space is funded by the Chinese Communist Party to the tune of nearly 50 Million dollars:



“University of Pennsylvania, which hosted the Penn Biden Center where classified documents were found in November, received $47.7 million from China in the three years when Biden was affiliated with it.



The University of Pennsylvania, the Ivy League institution which collected tens of millions of dollars from China while paying Joe Biden and hosting his foreign policy think tank, successfully pressured the Biden Justice Department to end an FBI counterespionage program targeting Beijing’s increasing influence within U.S. academia.”



Ironically, as JTN reports:



Attorney General Merrick Garland shut down the FBI’s so-called China initiative in February 2022 shortly after more than 160 members of the University of Pennsylvania faculty signed and made public an open letter demanding the program be shuttered, on the grounds that it amounted to racial profiling. The faculty letter was part of a larger university battle against the program.



The stolen government documents in Joe Biden’s possession are now being investigated by an Attorney General appointed Special Counsel. Documents were found in numerous places, including in Biden’s personal messy and insecure garage at his home.



And what is even more suspicious is that Biden’s embattled son Hunter, who is the center of his own massive scandal involving a laptop full of crimes, was living at home attached to the garage that held the stolen documents.



Newsweek reported on those details:



President Joe Biden suggested his “locked garage,” containing “my Corvette,” was a secure location for the latest batch of classified documents.



Meanwhile, a new report has found Hunter Biden lived at the address from 2018 to 2019. Hunter, the president’s troubled son, has been accused of peddling access to his father when Joe was vice president to reap financial benefits.



The Washington Free Beacon reported it has documented evidence Hunter Biden claimed the then-vice president’s residence as his own, according to images of Hunter Biden’s Delaware driver’s license stored on his laptop.



Hunter Biden has a host of foreign business contacts; he is also said to be facing investigation over alleged tax fraud and misstatements about past drug use on a gun application, the Free Beacon reported.



Attorney General Merrick Garland named a special counsel Thursday to investigate President Biden’s handling of classified documents.



The new find — like the original, from Biden’s time as vice president — was uncovered in the garage of his home in Wilmington, Delaware, where he often spends weekends, the White House said.



Robert Hur, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, is empowered to examine whether the cache violated any law.



“Under the regulations, the extraordinary circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel,” Garland said.



The appointment came hours after the White House acknowledged the second batch of papers but did not address their contents. The first set was found at a Washington think tank where Biden had an office.



Republicans in Congress have been accusing the White House of a cover-up and swiftly announced their own inquiry to run independently of the criminal probe.



“I take classified documents and classified material seriously,” Biden told reporters. “We’re cooperating fully, completely with the Justice Department’s review.



“As part of that process, my lawyers reviewed other places where documents from my time as vice president were stored, and they finished the review last night.”



The president said a “small number” of documents with classified markings had been found in storage areas and his library and the Justice Department was notified immediately.



Biden declined to take shouted questions from the press, but a White House lawyer said later the documents had been “inadvertently misplaced.”



Hur is a former assistant U.S. attorney who worked in the DOJ from 2007 until 2014 and returned to public service under Trump as the principal associate deputy attorney general.



He promised a swift investigation and pledged to be “fair, impartial, and dispassionate.”



The first cache of Biden documents was discovered a week before last year’s midterm elections but not revealed by the White House until Monday, prompting accusations from Republicans that it was kept secret for political reasons.



Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., head of the House Oversight Committee, said he would be leading an investigation into the “mishandling of classified documents and the Swamp’s efforts to hide this information.”



“There are many questions about why the Biden administration kept this matter a secret from the public, who had access to the office and the residence, and what information is contained in these classified documents,” he said.



Trump took to his Truth Social platform to call for an immediate end to his investigation “because I did everything right.”



After the first batch of Biden documents was discovered at his former office at the Penn Biden Center think tank last November, lawyers turned them over to the National Archives, which handles all such materials, the White House counsel’s office said.



Lawyers for Biden then scoured possible locations for any other stray documents.



Tempers flared during an exchange between Biden’s press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, and reporters seeking to know if she was aware of any discussions in the White House about delaying public disclosure of the original discovery.


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UPDATE: 20 Classified Documents Found So Far At Biden’s Office And Home

By Cullen Linebarger

Published January 13, 2023 at 8:24pm




The Biden classified documents scandal continues to grow. CBS News revealed Friday that there are now 20 known documents with classified material, some of which are top secret material.



A leak of top secret information would cause “exceptionally grave danger.” This of course means America’s national security would be in jeopardy if a single top secret document fell into the wrong hands.



Despite this, the mentally incompetent Biden felt perfectly comfortable storing these top secret materials in a less than secure location. Yet another reason he must be removed from office as soon as possible.



Here is the full story from CBS News:


The approximately 10 documents marked classified and discovered at the Penn Biden Center included top-secret material, according to a federal law enforcement official familiar with the investigation.



Top secret is the highest of the three basic levels of classification: confidential, secret and top secret. A leak of top secret information could cause “exceptionally grave damage.”



Fewer than 10 documents marked classified were found at the Biden residence in Wilmington, Del., and none were marked top secret.



In all, the source said, the total number of known documents marked classified is roughly 20, between the two locations.



CBS News reported Monday that roughly 10 documents with classified markings had been found at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington. The documents were from President Biden’s vice-presidential office at the center.



Then on Thursday, the White House confirmed that a second group of records with classified markings dating from Mr. Biden’s time as vice president had been found in his home in Wilmington, Delaware.


On the same day, Attorney General Merrick Garland named a special counsel, Robert Hur, to oversee the investigation into the documents.



Make no mistake: this new information is likely the tip of the iceberg of what’s coming down the pike. Biden deserves to be worried because it seems the media is no longer looking to protect him.



Of course, your average American would already be looking at a lifetime behind bars for absconding with classified, top secret material. So Biden has already gotten off extraordinarily easy.

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Jonathan Turley Blasts Karine Jean-Pierre For Refusing to Answer Basic Questions About Biden’s Classified Document Scandal

By Cristina Laila

Published January 13, 2023 at 6:35pm




Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley on Friday blasted White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre for refusing to answer basic questions about the Biden document scandal.



White House reporters on Friday continued to grill Karine Jean-Pierre about the classified documents found in Joe Biden’s garage.



It was revealed this week that Joe Biden improperly stored stolen classified documents in his garage next to his Corvette.



Top-secret documents related to Ukraine, China, Iran and the United Kingdom were also found in the Penn Biden Center.


Joe Biden STOLE the classified documents then refused to tell the public when his lawyers supposedly discovered the materials.



CBS broke the story of the classified documents stored at Penn Biden Center through a leak.



The Biden White House never voluntarily came forward and announced classified documents were found in Biden’s private office and garage next to his Corvette.



Karine Jean-Pierre for the last two days has insisted the Biden Regime has been transparent about the process, however, she is dodging all questions related to the scandal.

Jonathan Turley weighed in on the scandal and said Karine Jean-Pierre is dodging questions to protect Biden, not the integrity of the DOJ’s investigation.



“It is increasingly painful to watch Karine Jean-Pierre as she argues that they have been “transparent” by being transparently unwilling to answer any questions…” Turley said.

“Nothing prevents the White House from answering basic questions about the scandal. It will not undermine the Justice Department for the White House to confirm the President’s position and recollection. The silence protects the President not the investigation…” he said.

“The White House has already stated that the documents were inadvertently removed but refuses to answer questions on the basis or meaning of that defense…” Turley added.

“I can understand the desire of a criminal defense attorney for Biden to remain silent. However, the refusal to answer basic questions is not to protect the “independence of the Justice Department” or the investigation. It meant to protect the President as an individual.” he said.

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COVER UP: Lawyers Found More Classified Documents in Biden’s Private Library Than Previously Known

By Cristina Laila

Published January 14, 2023 at 11:38am


Joe Biden’s personal lawyers found more classified documents in the president’s private library than previously known.



On Saturday it was revealed 6 more classified documents were discovered at Biden’s Wilmington home.



CBS News Friday night reported at least 20 classified documents were discovered so far.



According to Joe Biden’s lawyer, Bob Bauer, Biden’s personal lawyers do not have security clearances so as soon as they saw the documents marked classified, they stopped the search.


For this reason, this is why the actual number of classified documents stored at Biden’s private residence is not known, the lawyer said.

On Monday it was revealed top secret intelligence documents related to Ukraine, UK and Iran were found in Joe Biden’s private office shortly before the 2022 midterm elections.



Joe Biden stored top-secret files with the “sensitive compartmented information” (SCIF) designation at Penn Biden Center in DC.



Government officials discovered more classified documents at Joe Biden’s Delaware home – in the garage.



US Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to investigate Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents.



Garland tapped Robert Hur as the special counsel.



Robert Hur – a Trump appointee – was a US Attorney for the US District of Maryland.



THE TIMELINE

The timeline is important because it shows Joe Biden is engaged in a cover up.



Here is the timeline of the documents scandal according to Joe Biden’s lawyer:








 

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“The White House Keeps Digging a Hole Deeper” – Mueller’s ‘Pitbull’ Andrew Weissmann Turns on Joe Biden Amid Documents Scandal

By Cristina Laila

Published January 14, 2023 at 7:35pm


The Deep State is coming for Joe Biden.



Robert Mueller’s “pitbull” Andrew Weissmann on Saturday turned on Joe Biden and suggested the president is engaged in a cover up in light of classified documents being discovered at Biden’s private office and Delaware residence.



“The WH keeps digging a hole deeper: they have failed to answer so many questions, which is very strange if this is all an innocent mistake.” Andrew Weissmann said on Saturday morning.



“Total number of government docs found and precisely where; and what levels of classification?” Weissmann said.


“Why wasn’t this all revealed in Nov/Dec?” he added.

The White House got caught trying to cover up yet another huge scandal involving Joe Biden.



According to a timeline of events provided by Joe Biden’s lawyers, the classified documents were discovered at Penn Biden Center on November 2.



Joe Biden stored top-secret files with the “sensitive compartmented information” (SCIF) designation at Penn Biden Center in DC.


The news of the discovery of “top secret” documents improperly stored at Penn Biden Center was leaked to CBS News and reported to the public on Monday.



Biden never publicly announced his lawyers found the documents at his private office. A leak to the media forced the story out.



A second batch of documents were discovered at Biden’s Delaware home in his garage on December 20.



That discovery wasn’t released to the public until Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.



A THIRD set of classified documents were discovered on Thursday night, according to Biden’s lawyers.



However, Karine Jean-Pierre all day Thursday claimed “the search was complete” – later that night Biden’s lawyers discovered more classified materials in Joe Biden’s library.

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More Classified Documents Found At Biden's Delaware Home

BY TYLER DURDEN

SATURDAY, JAN 14, 2023 - 12:25 PM


Another day, another report of Biden having classified documents scattered all over the place - as opposed to a safe at Mar-a-Lago.


And of course as vice president when he took them, he had no authority to declassify - unlike a president.



In the latest 'document-gate' development, the New York Times reports that 'additional pages of classified information' were found at President Biden's Delaware home on Thursday, hours after a White House statement acknowledging that a classified document was found in a storage area 'adjacent to the garage' of his Wilmington home, which Biden's aides reportedly discovered the night before.



The news comes after Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel this week to investigate Biden's handling of classified materials.



The Biden camp has pushed back against accusations that their failure to disclose the document find the day before the 2022 midterms amounts to election interference.



They also defended their decision not to be fully forthcoming about the matter. The White House has been criticized over its public disclosures, including why it did not reveal the discoveries much earlier, and why, when it acknowledged on Monday that some classified files had been found at Mr. Biden’s office on Nov. 2, it had not indicated that more had been found at his house the next month.



Mr. Biden’s lead personal lawyer, Bob Bauer, said in a statement on Saturday that Mr. Biden’s legal team had tried to balance being transparent with “the established norms and limitations necessary to protect the investigation’s integrity.” -NYT



According to Biden's lead lawyer, DOJ investigators needed 'time' to complete their inquiry, and revealing certain details publicly before more information emerged could cause earlier statements to be "incomplete."



"That's your version of events," said White House spox Karine Jean-Pierre on Friday when asked if the White House did not disclose the original findings until they were reported by CBS News earlier this week. "Look, I want to very clear: There’s a process here, we are going to respect that process," she added.



What a load of horses**t.

"The timing of the revelation of the document discovery is indeed curious," said former Rep. Chris Carney (D-PA), a longtime Biden ally and former intelligence officer, per The Hill. "President Biden must be accountable and accept responsibility for this awkward episode. The most important thing here is not preventing political embarrassment, it’s protecting our nation’s security."



"Look, this happened Nov. 2nd. Joe Biden said he would be the most transparent president in American history. Why are we just now learning this? CBS did a great job uncovering this or we would never know," said Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) in a CBS interview earlier this week.

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Analysis: Documents Probe Dents Biden’s Claims to Competence
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WASHINGTON (AP) — When Joe Biden was running for president, he offered himself to Americans as the kind of leader they wouldn’t have to think about after the tumult of his predecessor’s years in the Oval Office. But an excruciating week of awkward disclosures and the appointment of a special counsel to investigate classified records found at his Delaware home and a former office dating to his time as vice president is beginning to strain his claim to competence.



The surprise revelations that on at least four different occasions Biden’s lawyers found improperly stored classified documents and official records evoked the turmoil surrounding Donald Trump’s presidency, a four-year ruckus from which Biden has tried to move the country past. In the latest development, the White House acknowledged on Saturday that Biden’s lawyers had turned up even more such documents at the home than previously known.



It’s an embarrassment to Biden, and the selection of a special counsel to investigate potential criminal wrongdoing in the matter exposes the president to a new, self-inflicted risk.



Further, it complicates the Justice Department’s calculus about whether to bring charges against Trump over his handling of classified material, hands fresh ammunition to newly empowered House Republicans eager to launch investigations and undercuts a central plank of Biden’s pitch to voters just as he looks to launch a reelection bid in the coming months.



“It just won’t be so exhausting,” former President Barack Obama had promised about a Biden presidency in the closing days of the 2020 campaign, adding that voters are “not going to have to think about the crazy things … and that is worth a lot.”



The Biden case is markedly different from Trump’s mishandling of classified documents and official records — not least because Biden’s team voluntarily turned them over to federal officials when they were discovered. Still, it has caused private frustration among Biden allies and some advisers because the president and his team, as billed, were supposed to be better than this.



The current White House explanation, offered by lawyer Richard Sauber, is that the special counsel’s inquiry “will show that these documents were inadvertently misplaced” — a “mistake” with the nation’s secrets.



Biden seemingly ignored or forgot about a cardinal rule in politics: Check your closet for skeletons before you complain about someone else’s. His public criticisms about Trump’s “ irresponsible ” handling of classified documents, however different the circumstances, are now coming back to haunt him.



Biden allies say the packing up of his vice presidential office happened swiftly. Biden aimed to run through the tape on his eight years alongside Obama even as aides worked to close down his office before Trump’s inauguration at noon on Jan. 20, 2017.



But that explanation, said Richard Painter, the top ethics official in the George W. Bush administration, suggests behavior that was “incredibly careless and really quite shocking.”



Painter said that while Biden probably would avoid the criminal issues looming over Trump because there is so far no sense that Biden intentionally mishandled classified records, it still merited investigation.



“You never just pack stuff up and cart it out of there,” Painter said. He said aides and lawyers are supposed to carefully sift through what are official records that are property of the National Archives and personal records that may be removed.



“To say nothing of classified documents which have these distinctive markings on them,” Painter said. “It’s still very worrisome. It’s a serious national security breach.”



Beyond all that, the piecemeal way that word of the discoveries became public — more than two months after the first batch of classified documents had been found at the Penn Biden Center in Washington — has drawn bewilderment from crisis management experts.



“The White House can’t let itself be seen as hiding information or be bled to death by investigators’ or others’ leaks,” said Adam Goldberg, who served as special associate counsel to President Bill Clinton from 1996-1999.



It wasn’t until Monday that the White House confirmed that classified documents had been found at Biden’s former office on Nov. 2, days before the midterm elections. Even then, that acknowledgement came only in response to news inquiries.



Not until Thursday did Biden lawyers acknowledge the Dec. 20 discovery of documents in the garage of Biden’s house in Wilmington, Delaware, and inform the Justice Department that another classified record had been found the night before in Biden’s home library.



“If there’s any further bad news out there, they better be the ones to put it out and put it out all at once,” Goldberg said.



White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had said Thursday that Americans can “assume” there are no more classified documents or government records improperly stored after Biden’s personal lawyers conducted a final search that concluded on Wednesday evening.



She repeatedly deflected questions about the White House’s public disclosures, insisting the president’s team was handling handling the matter the “right way” by deferring to the Justice Department.



A statement from Sauber on Saturday about the latest discovery of classified documents in Delaware did not explain why the White House waited two days to provide an updated accounting.



If Biden’s White House needs to get its messaging back on track after a week of missteps and unforced errors, Trump’s issues go well beyond mere competence.



“On the political front, assuming the White House gets its communications right, I’m not worried about any political fallout,” said Goldberg. “With Trump, competency hasn’t been the issue, intentional misconduct has been. While Republicans will try to muddy this up, there’s just such a big difference between Biden discovering and disclosing these on his own and Trump’s obstruction and lying.”


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Elise Stefanik Rips Joe Biden as National Security Threat After More Classified Docs Unearthed


WENDELL HUSEBØ
14 Jan 2023

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), the third highest ranking House Republican, stated Saturday that President Joe Biden is a present threat to the nation’s national security after five more classified documents were reported stashed in Biden’s home Saturday.



The mishandled documents present the possibility the classified information could have landed in the hands of American adversaries.



Between the classified documents retrieved from the Biden Penn Center and the documents retrieved from Biden’s residence in Delaware on Thursday, the total number of classified documents Biden stashed is now about 25 — some of which are top secret.



Some of the documents found in Biden’s trove at the Penn Biden Center were related to Ukraine. The Biden family business has a long history of deals in Ukraine. In 2017, Hunter Biden was paid $83,000 per month to be on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company. Hunter was appointed to the board of Burisma in 2014 with no previous experience in the energy sector or in Ukraine.



“Biden and the Biden Crime Family are corrupt and significant threats to national security,” Stefanik told Breitbart News. Stefanik also noted the duplicity of Biden’s Justice Department, which has targeted Republicans while permitting Democrats to avoid scrutiny.



“The fact that federal law enforcement looks the other way when Democrats like Hilary Clinton, Hunter Biden, or Joe Biden break the law while these federal agencies illegally target Republicans is why critical Congressional oversight is so sorely needed to deliver accountability,” she said.



The double standard of justice comes as the Biden administration has avoided complying with the House’s investigations into Biden’s mishandling of classified information. Rep. James Comer (R-NY), the chair of the Oversight Committee, stated Saturday that the White House, National Archives, and the Justice Department have all failed to inform Congress about the violation.



“President Biden’s three strikes against transparency will be met with swift congressional oversight,” Comer wrote. “The White House, the National Archives, and the Justice Department failed to promptly inform Congress and the American people about mishandled classified documents from Joe Biden’s time as vice president.”



The White House has also failed to relay accurate information to the press. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre falsely claimed Thursday that the search for President Joe Biden’s classified documents was completed Wednesday night. That timeline was contradicted Saturday when the White House admitted five more documents had been found Thursday.



Critics have questioned why Biden’s personal attorneys were initially searching through his papers as far back as November. Others have questioned why Biden waited until January to disclose his wrongdoing. Comer went on to say:



We first learned about the Penn Biden Center classified documents months after they were found in an unsecure closet. Then it took the White House weeks to inform the public about the documents found in President Biden’s Wilmington garage. And now days later, we are learning that there are more documents at the Wilmington residence.



“Are there more classified documents to be found?” Comer questioned.

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Adam Schiff Admits Possible National Security Jeopardized With Biden Documents

BY TYLER DURDEN

SUNDAY, JAN 15, 2023 - 02:00 PM

You know it's bad when...


No lessor liar than Rep. Adam Schiff (R-Calif.), the now former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, admitted this morning that it's possible national security was jeopardized after President Joe Biden's lawyers confirmed classified documents were found in various locations.



"I don't think we can exclude the possibility without knowing more of the facts," the California Democrat said of the Biden documents when pressed by "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl about any national security risks.



"We have asked for an assessment in the intelligence community of the Mar-a-Lago documents," Schiff said.



"I think we ought to get that same assessment of the documents found in the think tank as well as the home of President Biden. I'd like to know what these documents were. I'd like to know what the [intelligence community's] assessment is, whether there was any risk of exposure and what the harm would be and whether any mitigation needs to be done."



Of course, Schiff was quick to get back on track with the narrative, as echoing the media and most other Democrats, the Russia collusion hoaxer asserted that Biden’s and Trump’s cases are different because Biden, he said, is cooperating.



“The Biden approach was very different in the sense that it looks that it was inadvertent that these documents were at these locations,” Schiff said.



“There was no effort to hold onto them, no effort to conceal them, no effort to obstruct the Justice Department’s investigation.”

It’s worth noting, however, that the National Archives had confirmed last year that Trump’s lawyers were cooperating with the agency before the FBI raided his Florida residence in August.

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Why Was Hunter Paying Joe Biden $50k Per Month To Rent House Where Classified Documents Found?

BY TYLER DURDEN

SUNDAY, JAN 15, 2023 - 03:00 PM


A Thursday tweet from the NY Post's Miranda Devine containing a background check for Hunter Biden has people asking questions.


"The now-52-year-old began listing the Wilmington home as his address following his 2017 divorce from ex-wife Kathleen Buhle — even falsely claiming he owned the property on a July 2018 background check form as part of a rental application," the Post reported.



Of note, this is the same house where classified documents were found.



Yet, upon closer inspection, Hunter lists the "Monthly Rent" as $49,910 - or roughly $550,000 for the 11 months he indicated he lived there?

A Zillow search reveals that the most expensive home currently for rent in Wilmington, Delaware is going for $6,000 per month.







According to Town & Country magazine, Biden's home is worth around $2 million.



Could Hunter, a crackhead, have accidentally listed the annual rent payment to his father for the house which contained classified documents? Sure. But why was his wealthy ex-VP dad charging him rent in the first place, when Hunter was allegedly broke?



Trending Politics asks the quiet part out loud; was this Hunter's way of funneling money to his father?



After Hunter’s divorce was finalized in May of 2017, he was included in an email from his business partner James Gilliar about a venture with Chinese state-funded energy company CEFC China Energy. The email stated that Hunter and his partners would receive 20% of the shares in the new business, with 10% going to Hunter’s uncle James Biden and the other 10% being “held by H for the big guy.”



Tony Bobulinski, another one of Hunter’s former business partners, claims that he had a meeting with Joe Biden regarding the CEFC venture on May 2, 2017, and that the president was the individual referred to as the “big guy” in Gilliar’s email. Additionally, Gilliar himself confirmed that Joe Biden was the “big guy” mentioned in a message found on the laptop.



And as the NY Post reports, "The following year, federal investigators began looking into whether Hunter and his business associates violated tax and money laundering laws during their dealings in China and other countries. Emails and other records related to the deals were found on the laptop, which Hunter dropped off at a Delaware repair shop in 2019 and never reclaimed."



"I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years," Hunter told his daughter Naomi in January, 2019. "It’s really hard. But don’t worry, unlike pop, I won’t make you give me half your salary."

As the Post continues:



The laptop doesn’t contain any direct evidence of such money transfers but shows Hunter was routinely on the hook for household expenses — including repairs to the Wilmington home.



In December 2020, weeks after his father was elected president, Hunter Biden announced that his “tax affairs” were being investigated by federal authorities in Delaware, and said he was “confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately.”



Recent reports have indicated investigators believe they have enough evidence to charge the first son with tax crimes — as well as with lying about his drug abuse on a federal form so he could buy a gun in 2018.



So, was the $49,910 'monthly' rent a simple crackhead mistake when that was in fact the annual payment amount, or did Hunter create "Exhibit A" for any honest prosecutors to pursue? We aren't holding our breath on the latter.



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“That Does Not Look Like What a Secure Location Would Be” – CNN’s Jake Tapper on Biden Storing Classified Documents in His Garage (VIDEO)

By Cristina Laila

Published January 15, 2023 at 4:03pm


CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday criticized Joe Biden for storing classified documents in his garage next to his Corvette.



It was revealed a few days ago that Joe Biden improperly stored stolen classified documents in the garage of his Wilmington, Delaware home.

Top-secret documents related to Ukraine, China, Iran and the United Kingdom were also found in the Penn Biden Center.



Biden was visibly irritated after Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked him why he stored classified documents in his garage.


“My Corvette is in a locked garage, okay? It’s not like they’re sitting out on the street,” Biden said.



WATCH:

CNN’s Jake Tapper criticized Biden as a photo of him backing his Corvette into the garage was displayed on the screen.



“That does not look like what a secure location would be,” Jake Tapper said.



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Andrew McCabe Calls on Biden's DOJ to Obstruct GOP's Classified Documents Probe

BY MATT MARGOLIS 1:43 PM ON JANUARY 15, 2023



Andrew McCabe Calls on Biden's DOJ to Obstruct GOP's Classified Documents Probe


On Friday afternoon, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) announced an investigation into Joe Biden’s mishandling of classified documents, some of which were labeled top secret. Andrew McCabe, the disgraced former FBI deputy director and current CNN senior law enforcement analyst, promptly urged the Biden Justice Department to obstruct that investigation.



“Chairman Jim Jordan announced this House Judiciary Committee investigation into the DOJ actions related to the President’s handling of the classified documents today,” explained CNN anchor Anderson Cooper on Friday night. “How much does that impact the DOJ ongoing investigation?”



“I certainly would advise them — if they were willing to listen to my advice — I would advise them to take a very hard line against that,” McCabe said. “There is a clear precedent here of not sharing information from an ongoing criminal investigation with Congress. And I think the DOJ is in a very strong position to resist on those grounds.”



“Who knows what comes of that resistance?” McCabe continued. “Maybe DOJ leadership starts getting subpoenaed. And ultimately, that fight will end up in the courts. And that could drag things out. That’s going to be an additional distraction to DOJ. But it shouldn’t disrupt the actual conduct of the investigation. So, that’s a — it’ll be a separate but related set of stressors the DOJ has to deal with.”



For our VIPs: Yes, Merrick Garland Has Politicized the Department of Justice



Of course, there’s no reason to believe the Biden administration wasn’t going to obstruct this investigation anyway, since they’ve already been obstructing investigations. But, boy, what chutzpah for McCabe to suggest that the administration’s investigation of Biden should supersede the GOP’s.



Obama and his administration fought and obstructed every investigation into its scandals, and the Biden administration will do the same. They’ve been using Obama’s playbook from the start, and they will make the Obama administration’s constant attempts to block the inquests look like child’s play.



The Biden DOJ can’t be trusted to conduct a fair investigation of Joe Biden. But the Obama administration pulled that stunt too — several times — and always vindicated itself. McCabe knows the Biden administration won’t hold Biden or anyone else accountable, which is why he wants the administration to block the GOP’s investigation — because he knows Jim Jordan will.

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Oversight Committee Demands White House Release Biden’s Wilmington Residence Visitor Logs


JACOB BLISS
15 Jan 2023
Washington, DC

Oversight Committee chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) sent a letter to White House chief of staff Ron Klain requesting the visitor logs for President Joe Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware, residence where multiple classified documents were found.



“It is troubling that classified documents have been improperly stored at the home of President Biden for at least six years, raising questions about who may have reviewed or had access to classified information,” Commer wrote in his letter to Klain on Sunday, noting that there is an ongoing investigation into Biden’s mishandling of classified documents from his committee and the Department of Justice.



With possible national security risks, the Oversight chairman also raised questions as to why Biden aides and attorneys — many of whom may not have clearances — have appeared to continue searching for more classified documents at his Delaware home after the initial documents were found there last week.



“Given the serious national security implications, the White House must provide the Wilmington residence’s visitor log,” he added in his letter to Klain. “As Chief of Staff, you are head of the Executive Office of the President and bear responsibility to be transparent with the American people on these important issues related to the White House’s handling of this matter.”



“Biden’s mishandling of classified materials raises the issue of whether he has jeopardized our national security,” Comer continued. “Without a list of individuals who have visited his residence, the American people will never know who had access to these highly sensitive documents.”

This past week classified documents were found at Biden’s vice-presidential office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington, which is within close proximity to Capitol Hill, in addition to other places such as his home in Delaware.



However, Comer’s letter comes after a report from the New York Times from Saturday said that his legal team found additional classified documents in Biden’s Delaware residence, bringing the total amount of mishandled materials to about 25. Breitbart News’ Wendell Husebo wrote:



The additional pages were found just hours after the White House revealed Thursday that one document had been found in a storage area near the garage of Biden’s Wilmington home, the New York Times reported Saturday.



Justice Department employees retrieved the document Thursday that had been unearthed Wednesday by the president’s legal team, who did not have security clearances.



Biden’s personal attorney, Bob Bauer, stated Saturday that the single document lead Biden’s attorneys to five more classified documents, which were apparently unearthed because “Biden’s personal legal team did not have security clearances, so when they saw the one-page document with classification markings, they cleared the area and did not look further.”



Comer noted in his letter that it is concerning that Biden’s White House aides and personal attorneys have searched the president’s Delaware home, knowing that the DOJ is also investing in the matter. He also noted that there needs to be transparency with the visitor logs to determine “whether any individuals with foreign connections to the Biden family gained access to President Biden’s residence and the classified documents that he has mishandled for years.”



To be in cooperation with the letter, Comer is asking Klain to produce “All documents and communications related to the searches of President Biden’s home(s) and other locations by Biden aides for classified documents,” in addition to the dates of searches and identity of the aides, and the visitor logs of Biden’s Delaware residence since January 20, 2021. Comer is asking for the documents by January 30, 2023.


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Biden Admin Fails to Comply with Classified Doc Probe After Vowing ‘Highest Standards of Transparency’

WENDELL HUSEBØ
14 Jan 2023

The Biden administration has failed to comply with the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into  Joe Biden’s mishandling of top secret documents after promising the “highest standards of transparency” in United States history.



In a letter issued by the president on February 4, 2021, Biden vowed the highest standards of transparency would be “revitalized” and implemented within his administration.



“In a democracy, the public deserves as much transparency as possible regarding the work of our national security institutions, consistent with legitimate needs to protect sources and methods and sensitive foreign relationships,” Biden’s letter stated.



“The revitalization of our national security and foreign policy workforce requires a recommitment to the highest standards of transparency,” the president wrote.



But Biden has failed to live up to his promised standard.



On Wednesday, Rep. James Comer, the chair of the House Oversight Committee, requested the National Archives disclose “all documents and communications between or among the White House and the Department of Justice or NARA [National Archives and Records Administration] regarding the documents retrieved from President Biden’s personal office at the Penn Biden Center.”



The National Archives has apparently not complied. Comer told Fox News on Saturday the National Archives is stonewalling the Oversight Committee’s investigation.



“I have jurisdiction over the national archives. This agency is supposed to do a briefing anytime something like this happens. They have not,” Comer said. “Not only have they not given us a briefing, even though we’ve requested one, they have not answered any of our simple requests for information.”



Meanwhile, there appears to be a blame game brewing within the Biden administration about who is responsible for the mishandling of classified documents — some of which are top secret.



A report by CNN revealed Biden administration officials are blaming the National Archives for refusing to treat then-Vice President Biden’s records with the “same high regard” as it did former President Obama’s records.



“While the National Archives sends staff members to the White House to gather files and papers of the President, they do not treat all vice presidential papers with the same high regard, officials said,” CNN reported, citing “former and current administration officials and others familiar with the process.”



Law enforcement has reportedly begun interviewing individuals responsible for the violation. According to NBC News, Joe Biden’s former executive assistant Kathy Chung, hired to the post after a recommendation from Hunter Biden, was questioned by law enforcement over the classified documents stashed in three separate locations. Chung’s employment as Joe Biden’s assistant was in part due to Hunter Biden, who recommended his father hire her, according to Hunter’s laptop emails.



Hunter and Chung remained in close contact over the course of Joe Biden’s tenure as vice president. Their correspondence included arranging Biden family business meetings with former University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann, who oversaw the Biden Penn Center.



While the White House appears to be trying to deflect blame, former Department of Justice prosecutor Andrew McCarthy argued Thursday that Biden has already admitted guilt. Biden has claimed no knowledge of the violation.



“That’s not a defense to a charge of mishandling classified information,” McCarthy stated. It is tantamount to an admission of guilt.”



“For conviction, federal law requires prosecutors to establish that the defendant was grossly negligent. There is no need to prove that an accused was trying to harm the United States; just that he was trusted with classified information and carelessly flouted the standards for safeguarding it,” McCarthy said.

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Ex-Clinton WH Advisor: Biden Will ‘Get Creamed’ over Classified Docs – ‘It’s a Very, Very Big Deal’

Frank Bergman
January 15, 2023 - 9:35 am


Former Bill Clinton administration advisor David Gergen has warned that Democrat President Joe Biden will get “creamed” over his classified documents scandal because “it’s a very, very big deal.”



The former White House official, now a political analyst at CNN, commented on the scandal after three batches of classified material have been found in Biden’s private home and office.



During an interview with CNN, network opinion host Anderson Cooper asked Gergen about the scale of Biden’s scandal.



“It’s very, very big,” Gergen responded.



“Not legally, but politically,” he claimed.



“It’s a very, very big deal.”



Gergen’s legal claim may not be entirely accurate, however.



As Slay News reported, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced earlier this week that he appointed a special counsel to oversee the federal investigation into the scandal.



“I do think that they, that the Biden people, they may be making a big mistake,” Gergen said.



“I don’t think sitting there, hunkering down now, you’re just acting like it’s not out there … they’re going to get creamed doing that.”



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Gergen said that the way the Biden administration has handled the matter is going to lead the American public to ask the question, “What are they hiding?”



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Joe Biden Reportedly Spent 163 Days in Wilmington Home Where Secret Service Claims No Visitor Logs Exist


WENDELL HUSEBØ
16 Jan 2023

Joe Biden has reportedly spent 163 days of his presidency at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, where the Secret Service claimed Sunday no visitor logs exist.



Critics have raised questions about who might have visited Biden’s residence after his attorneys found classified documents stashed in the home’s garage.



In total, Biden has spent 163 days over the course of 49 trips to his Wilmington residence, according to the Republican National Committee’s “Big Guy tracker.” It is unknown how many days Biden spent at the home after leaving the White House in 2017 and before assuming the Oval Office in 2021.



The considerable amount of time Biden has spent at the home raises questions about who might have had access to the classified documents.



On Thursday, Biden’s personal attorneys found five more classified documents stashed at Biden’s home. The White House has refused to explain why Biden’s attorneys initially searched Biden’s residence and the Biden Penn Center for classified documents.



Rep. James Comer (R-KY), House Oversight Committee chairman, asked the White House on Sunday why Biden’s personal attorneys were continuing to search his home for classified documents after a special counsel was appointed. The White House has yet to respond to Comer’s question.



Comer also asked for the disclosure of visitor logs from Biden’s home in Wilmington.



On Sunday, the Secret Service claimed no visitor logs exist from the residence. “We don’t independently maintain our own visitor logs because it’s a private residence,” Secret Service Spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.



The White House also confirmed Biden has failed to keep records of who visited his Wilmington home.

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Jim Jordan Launches Major Probe of Biden As Classified Document Scandal Explodes

Jon Dougherty
January 15, 2023


OPINION: This article may contain commentary which reflects the author's opinion.



House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan announced a new probe on Friday into President Joe Biden following revelations that he was in possession of Obama-era classified documents, potentially in violation of federal law governing such materials.



In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, the Ohio Republican noted that it was his committee’s responsibility to conduct such “oversight” and added that he expected the Justice Department to cooperate. The Judiciary probe follows another by Rep. James Comer’s Oversight Committee investigation into the matter, as well as that of a special counsel appointed by Garland last week.



“On January 12, 2023, you appointed Robert Hur as Special Counsel to investigate these matters,” Jordan and Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) wrote. “The circumstances of this appointment raise fundamental oversight questions that the Committee routinely examines. We expect your complete cooperation with our inquiry.”

In the letter, Jordan also raised questions about the timing of the document disclosure earlier this month after learning that the first batch was discovered at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C., just days before the midterm elections.



“It is unclear when the Department first came to learn about the existence of these documents, and whether it actively concealed this information from the public on the eve of the 2022 elections,” the two lawmakers wrote.



“It is also unclear what interactions, if any, the Department had with President Biden or his representatives about his mishandling of classified material. The Department’s actions here appear to depart from how it acted in similar circumstances,” the letter continued.



In addition, the chairman ripped Garland for approving an FBI raid on the Mar-a-Lago home of former President Donald Trump to retrieve classified documents the government knew well in advance that he had, but not authorizing a similar raid against Biden’s home in Delaware, where additional documents have been found as well.



“In fact, on August 8, 2022, despite the publicly available evidence of President Trump’s voluntary cooperation, you personally approved the decision to seek a warrant for excessive and unprecedented access to his private residence. On August 15, 2022, Committee Republicans wrote to you and FBI Director Christopher Wray requesting documents and information related to the FBI’s raid of President Trump’s residence,” the letter noted.



Garland has been briefed a number of times about the ongoing investigation into the matter by Chicago-based U.S. Attorney John Lausch Jr., one of the few holdovers from the presidency of Trump. Lausch, the attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, was appointed by Trump in November 2017.



“The documents were not the subject of any previous request or inquiry by the Archives,” Richard Sauber, special counsel to the White House, said in a Monday statement, according to Fox News. “Since that discovery, the President’s personal attorneys have cooperated with the Archives and the Department of Justice in process to ensure that any Obama-Biden Administration records are appropriately in the possession of the Archives.”



Fox News noted further:



The discovery echoes revelations last year that Trump had housed a trove of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago home after leaving office. The FBI ultimately raided his residence to recover some 300 classified documents.



Trump himself was quick to make the comparison on social media Monday, and a number of other Republicans called for more information about the Biden documents.



“Why didn’t the ‘Justice’ Department announce the Highly Classified documents found in the Biden Office before the Election?” Trump asked on his Truth Social platform.



“Biden’s documents are HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL, many pertain to UKRAINE, where Hunter was ‘raking in the dough,’ and FUNDED BY CHINA, which gave $55 Million to Biden, through Penn, and probably had easy access,” he noted further.



Donald Trump Jr. also asked, “When will the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team storm one of Biden’s many vacation homes bought and paid for somehow by a lifetime of being a humble public servant?”



Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), who served as White House physician during part of Trump’s administration, also asked similar questions.



“It’s just been discovered that Biden had HIGHLY CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS that were improperly stored in one of his private offices. INCREDIBLE! WHERE is the FBI? WHERE is the dramatic raid? We have two systems of justice in this country: one for them and one for us,” he wrote on Truth Social.

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“It’s a Clean Up Job…They Are Trying to Cover-Up Something Else” – Christina Bobb on Biden’s Classified Document Crimes

By Joe Hoft

Published January 16, 2023 at 8:25pm


Christina Bobb, Attorney for President Trump’s 2024 Campaign, was on the War Room this morning to discuss Biden’s classified document crimes and cover-up.



Steve Bannon invited Christina Bobb on the War Room to discuss the Biden’s classified document crimes.



Bannon shared that Bobb is not simply a lawyer, but she is a Marine Corps Major. He also said he didn’t want to take the bait between Trump and Biden’s classified document cases because there’s no comparison.



Bannon went on to mention that Dana Remus, Biden’s former White House Counsel, is not “doing storage movement”.



TRENDING: "It's a Clean Up Job...They Are Trying to Cover-Up Something Else" - Christina Bobb on Biden's Classified Document Crimes



“You don’t have arguably the most powerful lawyer in Washington DC. I say Bob Bauer and her are the most powerful lawyers because they represent Joe Biden as a person. She represented the office of the President as White House Counsel and now she’s not over there rumaging… and they moved these things multiple times.



Even NBC notes these are the most classified documents we have. They have compartmented top secret, we know they are about Ukraine. They already leaked that…Why would a personal lawyer of Biden be rumaging around that closet ma’am?



Bobb replied:



Quite possibly. I think you hit the nail on the head earlier in the show. It’s a clean-up job. There’s no reason for her to be out there, other than they are trying to cover up something else.



And if you have Adam Schiff, the New York Times, CNN, and all these Democrats saying, oh his inadvertent mishandling of classified documents. They’re all singing that song. It lets you know that that’s the cover-up it’s not the actual story. So I don’t think the actual story has come out yet.



Bobb goes on to say:



The fact that it is about Ukraine is extremely, extremely interesting… I don’t believe for a second that the media is telling the story honestly.



Much was said before Bannon shared the following about the corrupt Democrats and their response to Biden’s classified document crimes:



They are in full panic mode. You can’t get any folks heavier on the Democratic side.



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Karine Jean-Pierre Refuses to Say if Joe Biden Rummaged Through Boxes in His Garage Looking For Classified Documents After He Returned to the Crime Scene (VIDEO)

By Cristina Laila

Published January 17, 2023 at 3:25pm




White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Tuesday once again dodged questions on the Biden documents scandal.



Reporters repeatedly grilled Karine Jean-Pierre about the searches for classified documents after she was caught lying about the timeline.



One reporter asked Karine Jean-Pierre if Joe Biden personally rummaged through boxes at his home or in his garage looking for classified documents when he returned to the crime scene over the weekend.



Joe Biden took off to Delaware last Friday after his lawyers discovered more classified documents in his library.

There was no FBI raid of Biden’s Delaware homes.



Joe Biden’s lawyer also confirmed there are no visitor logs at Biden’s Delaware home.



Biden was able to return to the scene of the crime where he might have been able to rummage through his own boxes of documents.



“Is [Biden] physically joining in the searches for these things? Rummaging around his boxes in the garage and wherever else? Literally?” a reporter asked.



Karine Jean-Pierre refused to answer the question and blasted the reporter.



“Seriously!” the reporter said as KJP berated him for asking a real question.



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COVER UP: DOJ Decided Against Having FBI Agents Monitor Search by Biden’s Personal Lawyers For Classified Documents

By Cristina Laila

Published January 17, 2023 at 4:51pm


The Justice Department actually decided against having FBI agents monitor a search by Joe Biden’s personal lawyers for classified documents.



Joe Biden’s personal lawyers do not have security clearances yet they were allowed to rummage through Joe Biden’s boxes of documents in search of top secret materials.



Biden’s White House Counsel was then allowed to facilitate the handing over of the documents to the DOJ.



Rather than machine gun-toting FBI agents descending on Biden’s Delaware homes, the Justice Department and Biden’s lawyers came to an agreement on how the searches would be conducted.


“[The] two sides agreed that Mr. Biden’s personal attorneys would inspect the homes, notify the Justice Department as soon as they identified any other potentially classified records, and arrange for law-enforcement authorities to take them.” – The Wall Street Journal reported.



The Wall Street Journal reported:



The Justice Department considered having FBI agents monitor a search by President Biden’s lawyers for classified documents at his homes but decided against it, both to avoid complicating later stages of the investigation and because Mr. Biden’s attorneys had quickly turned over a first batch and were cooperating, according to people familiar with the matter.



After Mr. Biden’s lawyers discovered documents marked as classified dating from his term as vice president at an office he used at a Washington-based think tank on Nov. 2, the Justice Department opened an inquiry into why and how they got there. Mr. Biden’s legal team prepared to search his other properties for any similar documents, and discussed with the Justice Department the prospect of having FBI agents present while Mr. Biden’s lawyers conducted the additional searches.



The discussions and the Justice Department’s willingness to let the Biden lawyers do the searches unsupervised also suggest federal investigators are girding for a monthslong inquiry that could stretch well into Mr. Biden’s third year in office.



One reason not to involve the FBI at an early stage: That way the Justice Department would preserve the ability to take a tougher line, including executing a future search warrant, if negotiations ever turned hostile, current and former law-enforcement officials said.



According to Joe Biden’s lawyer, Bob Bauer, Biden’s personal lawyers do not have security clearances so as soon as they saw the documents marked classified last week, they stopped the search.



For this reason, this is why the actual number of classified documents stored at Biden’s private residence is not known, the lawyer said.



Joe Biden stored top-secret files with the “sensitive compartmented information” (SCIF) designation at Penn Biden Center in DC.



Government officials discovered more classified documents at Joe Biden’s Delaware home – in the garage next to his Corvette.



Was Joe Biden also rummaging through his own boxes?



Biden was able to return to the scene of the crime where he might have been able to rummage through his own boxes of documents.



A CBS reporter asked KJP on Tuesday why Joe Biden’s counsel, Richard Sauber, was allowed to go to Wilmington to facilitate the handing over of documents to the Justice Department.



“You’ve repeatedly emphasized the need as you did today for independence…of the…investigation…I wonder why did the WH counsel go to Wilmington to facilitate the handing over of documents to the DOJ? How is that separating the WH from…DOJ?” CBS’s Weijia Jiang asked Karine Jean-Pierre.



Of course she didn’t answer the question.



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The CBS reporter was not satisfied with Karine Jean-Pierre’s answer and asked her once again why Biden’s lawyers are allowed to search for the classified documents.



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Biden goes into panic mode over Doocy’s revelations about classified documents

by Kari Donovan

January 18, 2023

OPINION: This article contains commentary which may reflect the author’s opinion





Democrat POTUS Joe Biden has spent a great deal of time away from the White House during his two years in leadership, where people could monitor him, and reports show that Biden has been in his Delaware home, where people can not monitor him. Media reports about how often Biden is away from Washington DC, come at the same time top secret classified documents were discovered in Biden’s Wilmington garage, leading to speculation that Biden is giving someone access to documents who should not see them.



Fox News reporter Peter Doocey recently gave some outstanding updates on what he has discovered is unfolding in another huge scandal for Biden:



“We are learning there are no visitor logs, chronicling who comes and goes from the president’s house in Wilmington. An official at the White House Counsel’s Office is telling me that like every president in modern history, a personal residence is personal. They make the distinction that unlike the previous administration, the Trump Administration, they are committed at the White House to being transparent about White House visitor logs. But in terms of what Republicans on the Hill are asking for, a record of who may have been in the Wilmington residence and potentially had access to the areas where these documents were found, it does not appear that that exists. It would have to be done, it sounds like, retroactively,” Doocy said while outside the White House.



“There are no visitor logs for President Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, the White House Counsel’s office said in a Monday statement. Republicans on Capitol Hill demanded the visitor logs this weekend following revelations that Biden’s lawyers had discovered a stash of classified documents inside the home’s garage. While it is common practice to keep comprehensive visitor logs at the White House, Biden’s lawyers say no such record exists for his home in Delaware,” Fox News reported.



Watch Doocey talk about it:

“Like every President in decades of modern history, his personal residence is personal,” the White House Counsel’s office told Fox News. “But upon taking office, President Biden restored the norm and tradition of keeping White House visitors logs, including publishing them regularly, after the previous administration ended them.



The U.S. Secret Service revealed on Sunday that while a protection unit is assigned to Biden’s Delaware home, they do not record visitors, Martin Walsh reported for Conservative Brief, adding details:



“We don’t independently maintain our own visitor logs because it’s a private residence,” spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told reporters.



Republican Rep. James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, is demanding the logs and more answers, Walsh pointed out:



“Given the serious national security implications, the White House must provide the Wilmington residence’s visitor log,” Comer wrote to White House chief of staff Ron Klain. “As Chief of Staff, you are head of the Executive Office of the President and bear responsibility to be transparent with the American people on these important issues related to the White House’s handling of this matter.”



Republicans are demanding answers on the lack of transparency on visitor logs from Biden’s Delaware home.



“The White House has dodged questions on a report that the Secret Service claims to have no records on who has visited Biden’s home, where the president has spent more than 25% of his time since he took office. By comparison, the visitor logs to the White House have been released,” the Washington Examiner reported.



Kentucky GOP Rep. James Comer said: “President Biden has spent a large amount of time at his Delaware residence since assuming office. Americans deserve to know who President Biden is meeting with, especially since we know that he routinely met with Hunter’s business associates during his time as vice president. The Biden Administration must provide transparency to the American people.”



South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace also demanded answers from Biden over his Delaware visits, arguing that everyone who comes “into close proximity with the President, in an official or personal capacity, is screened by the Secret Service” and that their record of coming close to the president “exists somewhere.”



“It’s bad if there is official business being conducted and they aren’t telling us with who,” Mace said. “It’s even worse the Administration is using the Secret Service to excuse its complete and total lack of transparency.”



Last month, the U.S. Secret Service admitted that no records exist of who Biden has met with at his Delaware home. The agency said no records exist of those visits as a New York Post Freedom of Information Act request was denied, Fox News reported.



In a letter dated September 27, Secret Service deputy director Faron Paramore wrote, “the agency conducted an additional search of relevant program offices for potentially responsive records,” according to the paper. “This search also produced no responsive records,” the letter read. “Accordingly, your appeal is denied.” The denial is the latest in a series of developments involving Biden’s records.



In a March 2010 email reviewed by Fox New Digital, the office of then-Vice President Biden expressed concerns about the University of Delaware’s terms for the “deed of gift” for his Senate papers “due to the political sensitivities” that could arise from releasing the papers to the public. The email went on to list some sections that needed to be reviewed, including “Property ownership,” “Timing of archival processing and public release,” “Opportunity for review prior to release,” and “Scope.”



This story will be developing for a long time.

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Bongino: Something Bigger Is Going On With Biden Docs


by Liza Carlisle

January 18, 2023

OPINION: This article contains commentary which may reflect the author’s opinion





Inquiring minds are looking at the astounding facts concerning the recent discovery of classified documents in the possession of President Joe Biden.



Remember, a short time ago, the FBI raided former President Trump’s Florida home, Mar-a-Lago, to seize documents that Trump had stored there. In the case of the items seized, they were formerly-classified documents that Trump publicly state that he himself had declassified before he left the Oval Office, a power that a sitting president holds. The documents were slated to be a part of Trump’s future presidential library, in the manner that all presidents leaving office compile and declassify documents for such a purpose. Trump stated soon after the raid that not only were the documents stored in a special room, but the FBI have viewed the storage and the room and requested additional locks be added to the locks already present and Trump complied, receiving FBI approval in the matter of the storage of the documents.



Now, documents have been discovered in Joe Biden’s possession. Documents that date back to the Obama era White House, when Joe Biden was vice-president. Vice presidents do not have the declassification powers that sitting presidents do, so Biden could not have declassified these documents himself. Furthermore, reportedly some of the discovered documents bear information about the international business dealings of Hunter Biden and the connection between those dealings and President Joe Biden, a hot topic since the discovery of similar information on the laptop of Hunter Biden, and the release by Twitter of files relating to the laptop information.



The documents were first discovered in an off-site office space used by Joe Biden in Washington, D.C. Then, another stash of documents were discovered in Joe Biden’s garage of his house in Delaware. Biden brushed off the discovery and questions about the security of storing classified documents in a garage by stating his garage was locked because it houses his Corvette. Then, a third and a fourth group of classified documents were discovered at the Biden home.



In investigating the discovery of the documents in Biden’s possession, it has been stated by the FBI that there are no logs kept as to individuals who may visit the Biden home, the home of a sitting president. Stating obviously that the Biden home is a private residence, the FBI ignores the fact that the Trump home is also a private residence.



Former president Trump posted in social media about the lack of visitor logs at the Biden home, and his own security in Florida:



“The White House just announced that there are not LOGs or information of any kind on visitors to the Wilmington house and flimsy, unlocked, and unsecured but now very famous, garage. Maybe they are smarter than we think! This is one of seemingly many places where HIGHLY CLASSIFIED documents are stored (in a big pile on the damp floor). Mar-a-Lago is a highly secured facility, with Security Cameras all over the place, and watched over by staff & our great Secret Service. I have INFO on everyone!”



We Love Trump speculates:



Have you been struggling to make sense of the Biden classified docs story? I have. Why? Because it just doesn’t make any logical sense.

And if you’re like me, then you’re not alone. Dan Bongino can’t figure it out either. Actually, he has two competing theories, which is essentially what I’ve arrived at as well. It’s one of these two things, the only question is WHICH one? Because it can’t be both.

I kind of tend to lean toward the first one, but then I’m not entirely convinced. Love to know what you think…



Watch here:

“Was this a sabotage hit job by Democrats who want Joe Biden out of the race? Which is likely. Or was this an effort to cover up mistakes Joe Biden made that maybe illegal, unlawful and illicit? Just quickly on the first one. You don’t find it a little bit suspicious that lawyers deeply connected to Barack Obama, who’s got a long going feud with Biden – they do – I worked in the White House, these two men not really do not like each other. Obama always thought Biden was a buffoon and Biden was always jealous of Obama. That’s why he’s [Biden] doing the whole and “I’m the new FDR” thing now. He is a cancer on the coming presidential race, Biden, there’s very little chance against any competent candidate he’s gonna win,” Bongino said.



“So you don’t find it odd that people connected to Obama found documents all of a sudden? Why didn’t they burn them? Why didn’t they make them go away? It’s just kind of weird. But then you say yourself on the other hand what is this part of something bigger? Is there a bigger story here and here?” he asked.

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[Midnight]

House Oversight Chair James Comer to Investigate Biden Regime’s Plan to Cover Up Classified Documents Scandal

By Cristina Laila

Published January 19, 2023 at 9:05pm


House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) plans to investigate the Biden Regime’s plan to cover up the classified documents scandal.



“The Biden White House’s secrecy in this matter is alarming,” Comer told Breitbart News. “Many questions need to be answered but one thing is certain: oversight is coming.”



Joe Biden stored top-secret files with the “sensitive compartmented information” (SCIF) designation at Penn Biden Center in DC (found on Nov. 2).



Government officials discovered more classified documents at Joe Biden’s Delaware home – in the garage next to his Corvette (found on Dec. 20).


Additional documents stored in Biden’s library were discovered on January 12.



The Washington Post on Thursday reported that the White House and the DOJ conspired to hide the scandal from the public and they also refused to tell CBS about the second tranche of documents found at Biden’s Wilmington home.



Recall, information about classified documents stored at Penn Biden Center was leaked to CBS News.



When CBS contacted the White House for comment on their report on the Penn Biden Center, the DOJ did not reveal that a second trove of classified documents were also discovered at Biden’s home.



Lots of new reporting in our story on Biden team’s approach to DOJ investigation into handling of classified docs



Key point: An unreported letter from DOJ to Biden attorney dictated a strategy of caution + deference

w @mviser, @carolleonnig + @yabutaleb7 t.co/4zx39VRoVX



— Tyler Pager (@tylerpager) January 19, 2023



White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre last Thursday said SIX TIMES the search for classified documents was complete.



However, later that night Biden’s lawyer discovered 6 more classified documents in Biden’s library.



WATCH:




More classified documents were just discovered. pic.twitter.com/X8qwe7ZlZM



— RNC Research (@rncresearch) January 14, 2023



There’s more evidence of a cover-up…



The Justice Department actually decided against having FBI agents monitor a search by Joe Biden’s personal lawyers for classified documents.



Joe Biden’s personal lawyers do not have security clearances yet they were allowed to rummage through Joe Biden’s boxes of documents in search of top secret materials.



Biden’s White House Counsel was then allowed to facilitate the handing over of the documents to the DOJ.



Rather than machine gun-toting FBI agents descending on Biden’s Delaware homes, the Justice Department and Biden’s lawyers came to an agreement on how the searches would be conducted.



“[The] two sides agreed that Mr. Biden’s personal attorneys would inspect the homes, notify the Justice Department as soon as they identified any other potentially classified records, and arrange for law-enforcement authorities to take them.” – The Wall Street Journal reported.



A CBS reporter asked KJP on Tuesday why Joe Biden’s counsel, Richard Sauber, was allowed to go to Wilmington to facilitate the handing over of documents to the Justice Department.



“You’ve repeatedly emphasized the need as you did today for independence…of the…investigation…I wonder why did the WH counsel go to Wilmington to facilitate the handing over of documents to the DOJ? How is that separating the WH from…DOJ?” CBS’s Weijia Jiang asked Karine Jean-Pierre.



Of course she didn’t answer the question.



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