Say It Isn't So, Joeโฆ
ANALYSIS โ In what must be one of the most ironic twists of news, in a world full of twisted news, Joe Biden appears to have taken home highly classified intelligence memos and documents during his time as vice president.
Or, worse, took them to a private, unsecured D.C. office he used occasionally after leaving the White House.
CNNย reportedย that Rep. James Comer, who chairs the House Oversight Committee, said he plans to โpress the National Archives for information about the classified documents removed by Joe Biden during his time as VP. He said he would send a letter to the Archives โ which his committee oversees โ within the next 48 hours.โ
โPresident Biden has been very critical of President Trump mistakenly taking classified documents to the residence or wherever and now it seems he may have done the same,โ Comer added. โHow ironic.โ
This comes as an attorney general-appointed special counsel investigates, among other things, former president Trump's treasure trove of classified documents found at his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida.
So, while still bad, Trump's reckless disregard for sensitive intelligence now seems less unique or outrageous.
Especially considering Trump was a political neophyte, and Biden has been in national politics his entire adult life.
To be fair, a key difference between the two cases is Team Trump's long delay in recovering and returning the classified documents in Trump's possession.
Biden's personal attorneys reportedly found the documents in aย closetย when packing files in November while emptying out an office that Biden used at the notoriousย Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C.ย for his nonexistent relationship with the University of Pennsylvania (U Penn).
There he was paid handsomely (nearly $1 million over two years) as an honorary professor from 2017 to 2019 but never taught a class or saw a student.
Instead,ย accordingย to the New York Post, โBidenย gave roughly a dozen lectures and talks but never taught a full semester's course. Nor did he conduct any researchย or have any administrative responsibilities.โ
This reality hasn't kept Biden from claiming he was a โfull professorโ at U Penn for years.
In response to the public disclosure, almost three months after the documents were found, the White House evaded commenting by using the Justice Department โongoing investigation' trope.
CNN reported that nearlyย a dozen classified documents were found at Biden's former office.
The news outletย added:
It is unclear why they were taken to Biden's private office. The classified materials included some top-secret files with the โsensitive compartmented informationโ designation, also known as SCI, which is used for highly sensitive information obtained from intelligence sources. Federal officeholders are required by law to relinquish official documents and classified records when their government service ends.
In response to specific questions about why the Biden team did not disclose the discovery of classified documents in November at Biden's private office, Ian Sams, a spokesman for the White House counsel's office, said that they are โlimited in what we can sayโ now because the Justice Department is looking into the matter, and โfurther detailsโ may be shared in the future.
Typically, despite some of the documents being clearly labeled SCI,ย CNN chose to report that โtwo people familiar with the call say, none of which are โparticularly sensitive' and โnot of high interest to the intelligence community.'โ
Yet, the designation of SCI on some of the documents says otherwise.
Newsflash to the hacks at CNN, by definition, SCI information is โsensitive'ย as in Sensitive Compartmented Information.
It is also always of high interest to the intelligence community since SCI always concerns or is derived from sensitive intelligence sources, methods or analytical processes.
All SCI must be handled within formal access control systems established by theย Director of National Intelligence.
While SCI is not a classification, SCI clearance has sometimes been called โabove Top Secret.โ
In practice though, information at any classification level (Confidential, Secret or Top Secret) may also be considered SCI and protected accordingly.
However, as noted above, at least some of the Biden documents were Top Secret/SCI, which is fairly high.
The U.S. government requires SCI be processed, stored, used, read or discussed in an extremely secure Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilityย (SCIF).
Rep. Mike Turner, the new GOP chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has sent a letter to Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines requesting an โimmediate review and damage assessmentโ of the classified documents Biden had left in an old private office closet.ย
So, despite the laughable mental gymnastics CNN is performing to minimize Biden's reckless actions in taking home some highly classified intelligence โ in that regard, his doing so makes him no different than Trump.
Just more hypocritical.
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions ofย American Liberty News.
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So did Obama too make=
No mention that Donald J Trump was president at the time and he said he declassified the documents. I believe him. Ol’ joe has no excuse whatsoever.
Oh Gee! Didn’t you know Donald Trump “planted” those documents in Biden’s office? Biden and his partners in crime have accused Trump of everything but sinking the Titanic, so just wait. They’ll dream something phony up to charge Trump with.
You can’t fix a stupid doddering puddinghead.
THAT SEEMS TO INCLUDE HIS WHOLE ADMINISTRATION, CAN’T HAVE ANYONE SMARTER THAN THE CHIEF AND THE ONLY DIRECTION TO GO IS DOWN
The big question I have is why he had them in the first place since he didn’t have the right or authority to declassify the documents. With their blatant past actions, can we trust the FBI and the DOJ to tell us the “real” truth about what he had.
Absolutely not, the FBI & DOJ are fully corrupt, I wouldnโt trust them any further then I could piss into a hurricane!
Soโฆ.. who else has access to this said closet?
CHINA
Let’s see now. Who has access to the closet full of ultra secret documents? Putin, the president of China, the crooks running the drug cartels, the leaders of Iran. Do you suppose that might help our national security? Personally, I find myself wondering how many secret deposits have been made to secret Biden bank accounts by those I just mentioned. By now, we should all understand that he’s a crooked corrupt politician, who thanks to a bunch of idiots who didn’t bother to look at his past record and blindly voted for him.
tHIS WHOLE ADMINISTRATION IS ABSOLUTELY CORRUPT FROM THE FBI, DOJ, DEFENSE CHIEFS, TWO DIFFERENT RULES APPLY NONE FOR THE COMMIE DEMS AND MADE UP CRIMES FOR ANY OTHES
How do we know that Hunter didn’t get his hands on these documents that Biden had in his office sell them to China or some other country he was dealing with.
Okay then the DOJ is investigating, but the facts of the matter Joy Bayhar as fully exonerated Biden so the only thing left to do is check the boxes of innocent, and send Trump to the Rosenberg electric chair! See how justice works nowadays?
Democrats only pay lip service to security clearances and classified documents.
No wonder we never see Obama smiling anymore. His star replacement sidekick doesn’t know how to be corrupt without being totally stoopid at the same time.