Biden Gets a Get-Out-Jail-Free Card after Mishandling Classified Documents for Years
You just thought the Federal DOJ and Federal Law Enforcement under the Biden Regime was Corrupt. It is worse than you imagined.
Most Americans do not even know President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., was the subject of a Special Counsel’s investigation into his mishandling of classified documents, because the Fake News Media scarcely reports it. Nevertheless, despite this near blackout by Legacy Media, the Attorney General appointed Robert Hur to lead the investigation back in January 2023. After a one year investigation, the Special Counsel issued his report on February 5, 2024. The findings from the investigation are startling. The report confirms Joe Biden mishandled classified documents for years, in some cases completely losing classified briefing books, keeping classified documents in his garage, in his den, in his bedroom and all over his house. Yet, despite Biden’s reckless disregard for this Nation’s national security, the Special Counsel declined to prosecute Biden claiming he is a “. . . sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.” (Seriously, that is the reason.) The case was not even presented to a Grand Jury.
The complete report is well over 300 pages long, if you wish to read it. Let’s take a closer look at it.
In the interest of brevity, and in order to dive straight into the merits of the report, the background on how the classified documents in Biden’s possession were discovered and how the initial investigation progressed are omitted from this article. I may write about that later. I will start by highlighting Biden’s mishandling of classified information, then will briefly address the Special Counsel’s reasons for declining to prosecute Biden an will conclude with some observations about the different treatment Biden received when compared to President Trump.
The Classified Documents Retained by Biden
Joseph R. Biden acquired large numbers of classified documents from his decades of service in the United States Senate and his two terms as Vice President in the Obama Administration. Biden wound up strewing these documents all over his house.
Classified documents, totaling approximately 300 in number, were found all over Biden’s Delaware home.
The Classified Documents in Biden’s Garage
Classified documents about a 2009 review of Afghanistan counterinsurgency campaign, US military programs there, requests for additional troops to be deployed there, along with extensive intelligence assessments of the situation in Afghanistan were found in a box in the garage of Biden’s Delaware home.
From the Special Counsel’s report:
Here is a photograph of the garage depicting the box the classified documents were in:
(Report pg. 127.) That looks like a great place to store classified documents, doesn’t it? For anyone interested in more photographs of Biden’s “safekeeping” of classified documents check out this article containing more of the photos.
The Special Counsel’s report states the unauthorized disclosure of the classified material in Biden’s garage could cause “exceptionally grave damage to national security” even today:
(Report, pg. 132.)
The Notebooks with Classified Info – found in unlocked drawers in Biden’s home
According to the Report, when he was Vice President, Joe Biden would write down “. . . obviously sensitive information discussed during intelligence briefings with President Obama and meetings in the White House Situation Room about matters of national security and military and foreign policy.” Biden kept the notebooks he used to take the notes of these classified briefings. The notebooks were found in “unlocked drawers in the office and basement den” of his Delaware home.
(Report, pg. 6.)
Biden’s Delaware Garage Storage Closet Contained Classified Files
A storage closet in the garage of Biden’s Delaware home contained boxes with documents bearing classified markings from foreign trips Biden took in the 1970’s and 1980’s while he was a United States Senator.
(Report, pg. 170.) Many of these documents were confirmed by the Special Counsel to currently be classified at the “Secret” level. (Report, pg. 176.)
Biden’s Home Office in Delaware contained Classified Notecards
When he was Vice President, Biden used notecards to take notes of meetings, intelligence briefings and other matters. When Biden researched a book he wrote after leaving office, he twice went to the National Archives to review some of these notecards which were held in a very secure area known as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility:
(Report, pg. 75.)
All of Biden’s classified notecards did not make it the SCIF at the National Archives. Some were found on his desk at his Delaware home, including some containing “Top Secret” level classifications:
(Report, pg. 79.)
There were more classified documents found at Biden’s Delaware home, along with classified documents found at the Penn Biden Center and the University of Delaware, but the documents outlined above prove the point: Joseph R. Biden, Jr., kept a host of classified documents in his possession, many of which he never had any right to keep.
Biden Read Classified Information to his Ghostwriter
There is more. Biden also shared classified information with an unauthorized person. In 2017, then former Vice President Biden wrote another book, this one with the help of a ghostwriter. On multiple occasions during the process of writing the book, Biden read classified information to the ghostwriter directly from his notebooks (the notebooks containing his notes of classified briefings).
(Report, pgs. 9 & 10.)
Biden Lost Briefing Books Containing Highly Classified Information
The Special Counsel’s investigation revealed that Biden routinely recklessly mishandled or even misplaced classified briefing books or the classified material found in them while he was Vice President. The Special Counsel observed:
(Report, pg. 33.)
Vice President Biden received classified briefing books on “most days,” according to the Special Counsel. (Biden also joined President Obama for intelligence briefings in the Oval Office on a daily basis.) But, Biden’s staff were routinely unable to recover all of the briefing books. Also, classified material was often missing from the briefing books Biden did return.
Biden’s cavalier attitude with classified documents and information caused Obama Administration National Security officials to seek him out and brief him on how to handle classified material, only reviewing it in secure locations, not allowing it to leave Biden’s immediate possession and how to properly store the documentation. (Report, pgs. 46-47.)
Biden’s staff even created special procedures to track and recover the classified briefing books, but despite these efforts his staff “. . . continued to struggle to retrieve Mr. Biden’s classified briefing books.”
(Report, pg. 49.)
There is A LOT more in the Special Counsel’s Report about Biden’s reckless disregard of the applicable rules, regulations and law governing the handling, storage and dissemination of classified documents and information, but hopefully, this smattering of the evidence proves the point.
Why Won’t the Special Counsel Prosecute Biden for this Conduct?
In short, Biden’s memory is so poor, the Special Counsel did not feel the Government could prove Biden possessed the necessary intent (willfulness) required to prove criminal violations. Stated another way, Biden is so mentally deficient the Special Counsel did not think he could prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Biden’s unlawful retention of classified documents or his unlawful sharing of classified information was “willful.” This is not a joke. The Special Counsel literally put this in writing. The following passages sum up the Special Counsel’s position on this issue quite well:
(Report, pg. 208.)
(Report, pg. 208.)
The Special Counsel stated the concern this way as well:
(Report, pg. 6.) This is unbelievable. This mentally impaired person does not have sufficient faculties to form criminal intent, but he is mentally competent to run this Country? Pathetic.
This is More Proof of our Two-Tiered Justice System
President Trump did not receive any such treatment from the Special Counsel investigating him did he? President Trump did not unlawfully retain documents for year and years like Biden did. President Trump did not spread classified documents around the Country like Biden did (Biden left classified documents at a home in Virginia, at his home in Delaware, at the Penn Biden Center and at the University of Delaware where his Senate papers are maintained). President Trump did not leave classified documents unattended, unprotected in a cardboard box in his garage or the garage storage room for YEARS, like Biden did.
The Special Counsel investigating President Trump did not give him the benefit of the doubt, over and over again, like Biden received, did he? On the contrary, the Special Counsel investigating President Trump indicted Mar-A-Lago staff members, demanded hundreds of thousands of hours of Mar-A-Lago surveillance video, worked to pierce Trump’s attorney client privilege and more. In short, President Trump is the subject of an aggressive, no-holds-barred, take no prisoners Federal prosecution, while Sleepy Joe Biden gets a kind and gentle prosecutor who gives him endless get-out-of-jail-free cards, supposedly because he is a senile old man.
This article is already too long, but I omitted a massive amount of evidence of Biden’s guilt. The Special Counsel even found Biden lied about telling his ghostwriter that he found a pile of classified documents in his basement (Biden told the Special Counsel that he did not mean “classified” documents, he meant something else). See Report, pgs. 223-224. Yet, Biden is not being charged for making a false statement to Federal law enforcement. Do you think Trump would get a pass on something like that?
There is more. Biden’s ghostwriter deleted a host of recordings he made of Biden after the ghostwriter knew the Special Counsel was appointed to investigate Biden’s handling of classified information.
(Report, pg. 12.) Guess what? They are not prosecuting him either. The Special Counsel claims he had “innocent” explanations for the destruction of this critical evidence (evidence he held on to for 7 years, until the Special Counsel was appointed).
Do you think President Trump’s assistants get treated with these “kid gloves?” Absolutely not. Several of President Trump’s staff members were indicted over alleged conduct nowhere near as serious as this.
In summary, as is so often the case, there is one standard of justice for Democrats where they walk away “Scot Free” for all manner of criminal misconduct and another standard for President Trump and pro-Trump Republicans where they do not even enjoy the rights and privileges afforded the average criminal.
The Democrats and the Biden Regime, in league with their lackeys in the Fake News Media, turned the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Law Enforcement into a corrupt arm of the Democrat Party. I wish it were not true, but it is that bad. Worse still, Democrat politicians are angry the Special Counsel called out Biden's mental infirmities, as though this is mistreatment.
The simple fact of the matter is when President Biden’s term ends, he should be prosecuted for his mishandling of classified material and classified information. Particularly, since President Trump is being prosecuted for much less.
Americans had best vote Biden out of office in November. If we don’t there may not be a Rule of Law left to salvage.
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