According to multiple media reports, it was discovered a week prior to the midterm election that Joe Biden had removed classified documents from his term as Vice-President to a private office in the Penn Biden Center. The nature of the classified documents is unknown.
The notification from Biden lawyers to the DOJ, presumably on November 2nd, 2022, was kept under wraps until today when CBS first broke the news. It should be noted that as vice-president Joe Biden held no declassification authority, so removal of the classified material is a much larger breech than the claimed comparison to President Trump declassifying documents and taking them to Mar-a-Lago.
The motive for the public disclosure is somewhat interesting. Is the publicity through CBS, a known friendly narrative engineering firm for the interests of the Democrat apparatus, a specifically timed release against the backdrop of a DOJ decision not to prosecute President Trump for similar issues? Something to consider.
(CBS News) – […] The material was identified by personal attorneys for Mr. Biden on Nov. 2, just before the midterm elections, Richard Sauber, special counsel to the president confirmed. The documents were discovered when Mr. Biden’s personal attorneys “were packing files housed in a locked closet to prepare to vacate office space at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C.,” Sauber said in a statement to CBS News.
The documents were contained in a folder that was in a box with other unclassified papers, the sources said. The sources revealed neither what the documents contain nor their level of classification. A source familiar told CBS News the documents did not contain nuclear secrets.
Sauber also said that on the same day the material was discovered, Nov. 2, the White House counsel’s office notified the National Archives, which took possession of the materials the following morning.
“The discovery of these documents was made by the President’s attorneys,” Sauber said. “The documents were not the subject of any previous request or inquiry by the Archives. Since that discovery, the President’s personal attorneys have cooperated with the Archives and the Department of Justice in a process to ensure that any Obama-Biden Administration records are appropriately in the possession of the Archives.”
A source familiar with the matter said representatives from the National Archives then notified the Justice Department.
Garland assigned U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois John Lausch to find out how the material marked classified ended up at the Penn Biden Center. The review is considered a preliminary step, and the attorney general will determine whether further investigation is necessary, including potentially appointing a special counsel.
Lausch was nominated to be U.S. attorney by former President Donald Trump, and he is one of only two current Trump-era U.S. attorneys still serving. The other is Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, who is leading an investigation into the president’s son, Hunter Biden.
Lausch recently briefed the attorney general and will eventually submit a final report to Garland. The review is expected to conclude soon.
The Penn Biden Center is a think tank about a mile from the White House, in Washington, D.C., that is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania and named for the sitting president. (read more)
CTH research revealed the Mar-a-Lago document issue was essentially a nothingburger. The documents in the Trump case likely connected to the DOJ and FBI operation against the Trump campaign and administration, with much of the information being made public prior to his departure from office.
The FBI/DOJ hype around the Mar-a-Lago issue was intended to be what it was, another round of anti-Trump narrative engineering by elements of the DOJ/FBI and same entities who carried out all previous Trump-Russia antagonisms. Eventually the wild stories about nuclear secrets were even debunked and admitted by the Washington Post.
Former DNI John Ratcliffe, a man presumed to have seen the Mar-a-Lago documents, suspected the documents were essentially DOJ and FBI work products, including interviews with ‘sources’ like Igor Danchenko, from their fabricated case against President Trump. Under this scenario, the objective of the DOJ/FBI would be to avoid sunlight on their political targeting operation. The Ratcliffe viewpoint makes sense when you consider the DOJ/FBI position that no one should ever be allowed to look at those documents, including the appointed Special Master in the case, Judge Raymond Dearie, whom they fought to get removed.
If I had to hazard a guess about what classified documents VP Biden would want to take from the White House during the Obama era, they likely included some form of blackmail material in the event that Obama Inc ever tried to strong arm or threaten the Biden crime syndicate politically. Documents likely containing dirt on nefarious issues related to the Obama administration that Biden could hold as leverage, an insurance policy of sorts.
It’s interesting the name John Lausch resurfaces as he was the Chicago area DOJ selected by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions to review all of the DOJ/FBI material that was not being given to the House Judiciary Committee, and then act as the arbiter/negotiator for release. This was 2018.
Unknown to us at the time of the Lausch involvement in the document argument was the extent of control the Weissmann and Mueller teams had over the DOJ.
As we said at the time, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has not been able to stop, stall or disrupt their ongoing activity of the corrupt DOJ and FBI elements remaining in 2017/2018. Team Mueller was simply better than Team Sessions, and they operated as an insurgency.
Jeff Sessions was marginalized and getting his ass kicked by his own department, and then eviscerated by President Trump and the media. Jeff Sessions appeared weak, ineffective and inept because the Attorney General was weak, ineffective and inept.
Sessions appointed John Lausch to the task of document review in an effort to give the outward impression that he was doing something to combat the stonewalling from inside the DOJ and FBI toward congress; a stonewalling ultimately being carried out by Andrew Weissmann and crew, that AG Jeff Sessions couldn’t control.
John Lausch was appointed by Sessions in 2018 to try and get the criticism to tamp down. However, it went nowhere. Now his name resurfaces as the arbiter of whether or not Joe Biden violated the law.
Set a Left wing AG to do a job and the optics are cover-up. Set a right wing AG and then coerce to get the desired result. Come over to the dark side and you will be rewarded. Going nowhere.
“a specifically timed release against the backdrop of a DOJ decision not to prosecute President Trump for similar issues?”
Here’s a thought: could it be the other way around? Could the Trump document theater (and expected declining to prosecute anyone) have been concocted from the get go as cover for letting Biden walk on HIS document trove?
Oh, and as far as blackmail protection, I expect it was dirt on HIllary to protect Biden against Hillary. She was supposed to be the next president after Obama and she had scores to settle with the Obama crew who cheated her out of the seat in 2008.
It may also be that the release is timed such that an “investigation” starts which can be used as a shield against anything the newly formed house committees would investigate. It can be used as an additional level of legal boilerplate. When documents are requested, the answer would always be that they are “under current investigation” and cannot be turned over.
Considering the depth and breadth of corruption in the Biden crime family, though, they are going to need a bigger investigation.
The house should start with looking at everyone in Joe’s immediate circle, since the Chinese method of bribery is to pay everyone around the mark, and they make the mark “comfortable”.
“Plausible”.. very..
The difference between what President Trump did and what Vice President Biden did is President Trump has the authority to declassify documents while the Vice President doesn’t.
I’m listening to The Derek Hunter Show on WCBM and he just played the interview Scott Pelly had with Biden where they were discussing the documents found at Mara Lago.
Pelly asks “When you saw that photograph of those classified documents lying there, what were your thoughts?”
Biden replied, “I was shocked, how could someone be so careless and so irresponsible. What secrets could be compromised? Sources and methods, yada yada yada…”
The way this was released is proof to me it is much worse than what President Trump was accused of.
And don’t think that that evil witch doesn’t want revenge for not getting to be president. That was the thing she wanted more than anything else…her turn at the destruction of America!
A probability very much so, but that brings in two other questions. PDJT was totally conforming with document requests, there was never any reason for the raid on his home. Was the raid on PDJT set up to cover for FBJ’s illegal hoard ? If it was, the dates given for finding out about FBJ are false and it must have been known about for a long time, also for the DS to go to that amount of chicanery what FJB had must have been very serious.
Will we be seeing Bill Barr on the Sunday shows spewing his bile? Or maybe fatso Krispy Kream Christie spitting his observations?
In a word: No.
Yes
No…I won’t be seeing them even if they are on cause I don’t watch that 💩! So Treehouse will have to provide the entertainment.
love your “Krispy Kream Christie” moniker for Chris Christie.
“Krispie Kream Christie” …
You just put me off cream-filled donuts – forever.
Think about it.
The logical way to be certain and make sure Joe Biden has no more illegally obtained classified documents from his Vice- Presidency is for the FBI to raid all of his residences, including the White House seizing anything they want, including his passports, Hunter’s cocaine collection and Dr. Jill’s underwear.
Our Democracy is in jeopardy, our elections will be stolen and anything less and we will all die.
/sarcasm but true
A source familiar told CBS News the documents did not contain nuclear secrets.
Well, we can take some solace in this, I guess. /s
So who was the person who told CBS the classified documents that Joe Biden hid for 5 years did not contain nuclear secrets? Did this person have top secret security clearances?
It is most interesting that this information, found on Nov.1, 2022, before the midterm election, was just released after the election.
There is a pattern of suppression of evidence that damages Joe Biden . An example would be the outright lie that Hunter Biden’s laptop was misinformation. This occurred prior to the 2020 election.
How do they know – did they read them all?
sources they say.
read: bullcorn we made whole cloth
he also has a trove of documents at the University of Delaware that are under lock and key.
Republican House has to ramp up this investigation pulpit – keeping it forefront in the public’s eye
Biden’s UPenn SCIF is an interesting conundrum.
On one hand, no elected Democrat with power can be held to the law for anything, unless on the other hand, there is a plot by others with power to remove him.
Biden is saying he is thinking about running in 2024. Could the powers-that-be want to remove him before that?
Add in that this has been known for months and only broke now, when Biden happens to be in Mexico?
Very interesting to say the least.
My comment on the rules package passing was while admittedly being as
DC swampy as anyone there I was wondering if McCarthy’s ego would be so big as to not allow himself to be politically bested by the woman who was his predecessor. Pelousi being truthfully quite strong willed and rather ruthless against her opponents. In other words, McCarthy knows the ineptness of Sessions.
Would McCarthy’s ego allow him to be weak as Sessions. It seems to me that McCarthy has a much bigger ego than Sessions and would not allow himself to be bettered so obviously and so soon after a woman in his current position. Especially, a position 2 steps from POTUS.
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“Until, one day, an evil being crept into the castle. He invaded every space, then sent his warriors throughout the land.
“Those who knew how hard the task of building their Country was, were suddenly silenced by those who knew nothing of this history.
“The fate of the remarkable Country is not known. The fate of its faithful, also unknown.
It is as if this land never existed, but some of us know it did, & believe it still does.”
I’m stealing this. 🙂
Copied and kept in my “worthy of note “ folder.
well presented!
Yes, it is interesting, CBS being the vehicle for the release. Who, leaked the info from the DOJ?
Well, it will defiantly insure Biden cannot be President, that one more nail. With all the investigations beginning, it makes this ‘find’ even more interesting.
The question that needs to be answered, how did that get in there? I have read where the Chinese helped fund the Penn Biden Center. Depending on what is in the file or files, could lead to high treason charges, for someone. Hunter.
Maybe the lawyers brought the documents with them from the bathroom reading rack in Joe’s house in order to “find” them at his think tank office. Hot potato game.
We all have seen the shows where the spies set-up a drop?
The Chinese were/are apart of the think tank. A collaboration (you know) to find solutions to the America problem.
The nefarious infiltration of our worst enemy into the most critical areas of our country is extensive. And they OWN Slow Joe.
Let’s presume Speaker McCarthy writes a very nasty letter to the Biden White House.
Watch Rep. Mike Rogers. He will have to be pulled away from fighting the mailman to make him deliver it fast enough.
Maga people think Mike Rogers has taken over Boehner’s liquor cabinet
I heard reports that during the SOTH selection procedue that Rogers was called away to attend to his wife who was experiencing complications in delivering their newborn child. A pretty emotional situation. However, this in no way excuses Rogers’ behavior towards Matt Gaetz.
He’s been married to his wife for 4 decades — what?
Isn’t Rogers a psychotherapist? They have their fair share of addiction issues to be sure.
psychologists and psychiatrists regularly create their own patients and attend “counseling” sessions of their own to keep them in “balance”
Crenshaw just lost his committee assignment. That’s what he gets for shooting his mouth off.
Well it’s ok as long as he doesn’t cry 🙄
Where is the ghost of Sandy Berger? Democrats are fair minded people…
Look at the video of Jill Biden on the stage with the Mexican president. Watch how she moves and her face expression. Something is up and she is not happy.
Trotsky also met his end in Mexico..
link?
Jill should be hanging her head in shame every day of her life. She knows very well how she ended up becoming the so called First Lady.
She wants the money.
My heart aches for the family…and their fans.
A great American success story….and gone too soon….Rest in the Lord sweet Diamond! The Lord needs you to shine forth from above!
The stench of media lies and cover-ups, misdirection and ulterior motives is all over this. There is no way on earth anything about this is legit news.
Year #4 of The Great Pretending is well underway.
“Is the publicity…a specifically timed release against the backdrop of a DOJ decision not to prosecute President Trump for similar issues?”
Is all of this just scripted theater?
Psyops includes staging actors and events, as well as propaganda and censorship, to manipulate and control masses.
It does seem that no matter what, a Juggernaut slowly continues, toward an end state that looks like this:
US/western alliance transformed into vassals of a new hegemon, under complete surveillance of an authoritarian police state.
Who would be the new hegemon?
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/long-history-of-chinas-ccp-and-biowarfare
Well, after having read it all and watched the video, it seems this was a piece to blur all the lines.
They keep calling him President Biden, but he wasn’t a President, or the illegitimate resident that he is. He was an ex-VP when he absconded with Classified docs.
Oh, and this is different because he “self-reported”. Oh, that’s the ticket. He self-reported that he was a thief of the highest order.
Now if he would only self-report how he stole the elections and the Presidency of The United States of America. Oh, he already did that too.
Actually his good buddies Pelosi McConnell and uniparty installed Biden! This was a communist coup with China financing. It makes me sick!
A President can declassify the documents and do that, a Vice President cannot. Biden was the Vice President at the time. He is the criminal, not Trump.
Circuitous nonsense. Everyone needs to stay focused on the DOJ and Jack Smith never ending political enemy suppression effort. You want to defund something? Defund this garbage.
What part of moving boxes out of an office requires hiring attorneys, having them open each box, and having them document every document inside every folder in those boxes?
Dewey, Cheatam and Howe Attorneys at Law, Moving and Inventory Services, Inc.
Biden was having Attorneys inventory everything in that office. Why! Wasn’t there already an inventory taken when he stole those documents? When he installed them in that office?
Who hires Attorneys to take inventory? To pack up documents?
My guess is that some other source, busy scrubbing Biden’s criminal behavior, heard that there were SCI documents in that office, stolen from a SCIF, and made sure Biden cleaned up on his side.
Was it the FBI investigating Hunter? Maybe real spies investigating China or Ukraine?
Also, why no concern over who had access to these documents for the past six years? Why no concern about some flimsy closet door lock used to protect classified documents?
Everything about this smells like a coverup where nothing being said is accurate.
Maybe the commies are giving walking papers to the 2-3 actors playing biden so they can move in the next set of puppets ?
Hmmmmm
Biden and Company are the gift that keeps on giving. Like a bad case of the Herps.
Have session appear in front of the committee
joe’s people don’t want Joe to run.
“If it weren’t for double standards they’d have no standards at all.”
They’d have triple.
Isn’t that quote from mr serious Mikie Pence?
What’s the bet that a declassification document from Obama appears in the hands of Garland in a day or 2….
Lord have Mercy.
Could it be as simple as this is a block strategy by Dems?
Meaning now that a US Attorney has been assigned by DOJ to “investigate” it halts the Jim Jordan committee from investigating anything Biden, including possibly Hunter as the spin line becomes……..
There is a current ongoing investigation.
seems like the same old crap by the left.
This may be the trigger for the Engineers to break out the Vaudeville gaffe hook for joketato. Maybe they find a whole bunch more documents after a closer look and the Republican’t House begins Impeachment proceedings. In the end joketato is removed, and he pardons hunter and jim on the way out the door.
Sessions was in on it.
He knew he was going to recuse and hid it from President Trump to secure his AG nomination.
Then he didn’t resign, but only offered to be fired, trying to bait True President into firing him for an Impeachable Offense.
No Honor.
They’re vacating these offices to go where?
Lawyers are packing up everything to be moved?
Just so happens they rummage through a file, in a box, and find some classified docs?
Do they have clearance to see these? Who determined there were no nuclear secrets?
Somewhere along the line, somebody has to muster 1/10th the courage of the Founding Fathers who put their fortunes and lives on the line and go in there and clean house top to bottom knowing it is probably a suicide mission.
Biden had a think tank???
I don’t suppose Joe is under any threat of having his home raided by an FBI goon squad.
If there are really SCI materials involved, NARA and the originating agency should have known.
NARA seemed to know they were missing documents from Trump.
No reasonable prosecutor would bring a case against Joe Biden for a few classified blackmail documents.
Every one of these swamp rats has a trove of blackmail against everyone else. Once we crack the first nut, the rest will be easy.
Docs found at “Biden think tank”…..now there’s an oxymoron for you.
Personally, I think it’s a way to keep Biden from running again. I doubt seriously any investigation into the Biden crime family would turn up anything other than a few sound bites of pretend distress and maybe a report that the media will not acknowledge. But, the dirt exposed might be enough that the Democrat machine’s ballot harvesting and fake votes can’t overcome. I’d like to think no way would they run this tired, old man again, but he’s so pliable. Anyone with half a brain knows he isn’t running anything but is a servant to the fourth branch of government.
IMO Sundance is the only person who could have replaced Rush. Sundance… your Go Deep analysis without a doubt is the best and We Treepers know what a blessing we have in you!
For years, in times of turmoil we always thought What Would Rush Say. Now we eagerly wait to see, What Will Sundance Write!
God Bless You!!
Big Amen on ^^!
I guess you should pay your attorneys on time! FJB, FMG
Frankly, I cannot believe that any “radioactive” docs that are either highly incriminating or killer darts against potential blackmailers would ever be stuffed into a box with other papers in some storage place.
They would be kept deep within a personal bunker/hideaway safe. Now, perhaps Biden is too stupid or brain addled to manage these logically.
My feeling on the timing of this coming out now is for a reason.
This will in time show how evil the 118th congress is to come after the poor old 80 year president trying to finish his term. Give him a break you rotten sobs.
It’s good old Joe for gods sake.
Sad that everything is a political game of power in DC while the American people continue to suffer.
Wonders never cease…someone in d.c. actually has a sense of humor.
A think tank named after Biden!?
That’s the best definition of “oxymoron” I’ve ever heard.
This story is laughable. We all know that nothing will come of this.
Did Joe grab a copy of Big Mike’s annual ob-gyn physical?
The Penn Biden Center is a Chinese money laundry.
Joe Biden in his own word.
He’s either a sociopath or a pathological liar. He also insultingly questioned Donald John Trump’s character repeatedly. It doesn’t matter that Brandon is elderly or demented, his character remains as constant as the Northern Star.
Some people pass and it’s sad, but this is a great family loss, as well as a national loss of brilliance, humor and especially, truth.
Condolences and prayers for the family, especially Silk, for whom we especially pray. Rest in Eternal Peace, sweetheart!
Doubt overshadows much of this news – from the date of discovery to the nature of the documents, whether there are additional files at his residence (or elsewhere) to whether everything was returned. Not to mention that VPs do not have declass authority.
So, as usual, assume the worst.
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