After lawyers representing Joe Biden released information saying additional classified documents were discovered at multiple locations associated with Joe Biden, the investigation that was being handled by USAO John Lausch has been turned over to a new special counsel, Robert K Hur.
Attorney General Merrick Garland made the announcement earlier today [DOJ Press Release Here]:
(DOJ Press Release) – Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced today the appointment of a former career Justice Department prosecutor and former U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Robert K. Hur to serve as special counsel to conduct the investigation of matters that were the subject of the initial investigation by U.S. Attorney John R. Lausch Jr. related to the possible unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or other records discovered at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement and the Wilmington, Delaware, private residence of President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
“Based on Mr. Lausch’s initial investigation, I concluded that, under the Special Counsel regulations, it was in the public interest to appoint a Special Counsel. In the days since, while Mr. Lausch continued the investigation, the Department identified Mr. Hur for appointment as Special Counsel.
“This appointment underscores for the public the Department’s commitment to both independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters, and to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law.
I am confident that Mr. Hur will carry out his responsibility in an even-handed and urgent manner, and in accordance with the highest traditions of this Department.” (Source Link)
Robert K Hur was in private practice with the Gibson Dunn law firm. Prior to private practice, Mr. Hur served as the 48th U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland.
Presidentially appointed by Donald Trump and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Mr Hur served as U.S. Attorney from 2018 to 2021 as the chief federal law enforcement officer in Maryland. Before serving as U.S. Attorney, Mr. Hur served as the Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General with the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. from 2017 to 2018.
Essentially it looks like AG Merrick Garland is appointing a special counsel, because (a) he has to deflect political criticism given the issues and the growing scale; and (b) because a special counsel appointment will now throw the bag of “a current investigation” over any efforts from the Republican House of Representatives to investigate the office of the presidency.
Something is missing from the saga of the release of the Biden document info via NBC or ABC (don’t recall which ) .
The point is the MSM released the info , not the Alternative Media , so who dug up the fact that Biden had classified documents in the first place , and did it force the DEm’s to get out in front with an MSM release?
Imagine all the info on the Hunter laptop, perhaps in an email a simple, ” I have that stuff stored in the garage at ________.”
When the Dems finally understood McCarthy is being held to actual investigations, maybe they freaked.
Those classified documents have been hidden since 2017. What was Joe doing with them in the first place?
Garage gate
Peter Doocey caught Joe in a lie this morning when he asked if they were in his garage where he keeps his Corvette. Joe stated emphatically he was surprised they were there and didn’t know what was in the boxes. BS
inquiring minds would like to know . . . is that a brown Corvette?
Nope.
It’s a little red corvette.
MSM and their friendlies getting ahead of the GOP house. None of this would have come our if even the right kind of Republicans had not been elected. All of this a benefit of the 20 fighters.
There is no way the GOP House would ever get hold of this information if the Corruptocrats in DC wanted to hide it. We already have abundant evidence that the Deep State can hide whatever it wants from any congressional oversight. THERE IS EFFECTIVELY NO CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT OF EXECUTIVE BRANCH SPY OR LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES. They have 10 different ways to say “Talk to the hand chumps” and get away with it.
The reason his attorneys were out looking for stuff is because of the new GOP House and their intent to look “at everything,”
Exactly. No two ways about it.
And the right kind of Republicans. Kinsinger/Dizzy Lizzy, Paul Ryan types. Too many of the Dan Crenshaws. No way any of this would come out.
Unfortunately you are giving far too much credit to the GOP House. These Executive Branch agencies are basically all rogue and beyond any effective oversight. Think of all the Republican investigations when Trump was President that went absolutely nowhere. They did it before and they can do it again and again and again.
Yep. Congressional Investigators will find enough to call for a raid. Like in mara-lago. My question is how did he get to just walk away with these dox.? Ps: the special council will run cover and bury info.
Piglosi says no President is above the law, but Obama, Biden etc. You can be assured that the next front runner for President in 2024 will be Akeem. Has he made a statement? There was a reason the Obama camp replaced the witch Piglosi with him. Get his name and face front and center for 2024. Old JoeBama didn’t get the memo! History repeats itself. Remember Obama and the Democrats convention where the chosen one was show cased for all the voting idiots.
The Department of Injustice has had this in the making for sometime now and you can bet Merrick Garland will have a tight leash on his fraudulent puppet.
If these documents were taken (given by Barry) by Biden as VP who all know he stole them ?
He didn’t steal them, Trump planted them in order to take the heat off of himself. Total and complete sarcasm. Yet you may hear this narrative coming from the left media.
I read an article stating that the idiots on the view have already made this accusation.
I wouldn’t be surprised one bit.
It’s true.
They are so predictable.
Sounds about right 🤔
Special Counsel has got to be the easiest job in government. He can bury further findings and the contents and start writing his report now and have months of quiet time to catch up on Netflix, do some reading, and organize a few do-nothing meetings before releasing his report on a Friday afternoon before a long holiday weekend.
“After a long investigation, we found no intentional release of classified material. No reasonable prosecutor would try a case like this because we were unable to determine intent.”
Oh, wait … “intent to release?” Is that why you raided the home of a former President, just to discover that he had lawfully brought classified materials with him? So that you could then concoct some hypothesis as to his “true intentions?”
All right, then. “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.” Prosecute Biden for the same crimes, committed before he (supposedly) became President, and impeach him.
But, of course, you won’t. I believe that the term is: “Omerta.”
Now any investigation by the House into joe will run into the special counsel. They won’t be able to get documents for years. The SC is there to protect joe from oversight. There are no coincidences
Bingo
Double BINGO
B.S. See my post, above.
The difference between the purpose/intent of Congressional vs Criminal investigations assures they CAN occur simultaneously, with no risk of the Congressional investigations, in any way interfering in the criminal investigations.
The House MUST proceed, undeturred.
Otherwise, the DOJ will just appoint a SC, ‘to investigate’ Fauci/Scamdemic, 2020 election fraud, and anything else the House is intending to investigate.
There is NO VIABLE legal or Constitutional reason why Congressional Investigations and Criminal Investigations can not occur simultaneously.
The 20 can NOT allow this lame excuse to ‘stand’.
It’s obvious from the actual questioning of the Press Secretary by the MSM other than Peter Doocey, that their editors have gotten word from on high, “Go after him.” [Biden]
This is the first time in the Biden admin other than the quick Afghan pull out that the press has questioned the behavior of Biden.
It’s clear they received orders from their media bosses to ask questions.
The bosses are getting scared of the future House proceedings and the US Senate Intel Committee is likely freaked as well as the House has declared their independence from that body.
I feel better already.
Poor Merrill has some albatross around his neck.
Start the spin cycle.
The fox is hiding in the hen house. If only bird flu could strike. Harris will be the end of life as we knew it. God save the Republic.
HarryAss has been running with the Getty’s, NewScum’s & Brown’s since her days as CA AAG.
No, not Willie Brown, the other CA Browns. Willie just got her started.
In fact, She’s the “godmother” to Billy & Vanessa Jarman Getty’s 1st son.
There’s the scoop on the lucre/power behind her political career.
Is it time for Jordan’s committee to subpoena Wray and Garland but first get ALL of their emails and texts for the past 6 years?
Time to Go Deep, Jordan!
They needed to start like Yesterday.
Now we get to see what Jim Jordan is really made of. He can be a hero or he can be a bust like Trey Gowdy.
Who Is Merrick Garland’s Special Counsel Robert Hur? …He Partnered with Chris Wray at DC Law Firm and Later Was Rod Rosenstein’s Top LieutenantBy Jim Hoft
Published January 12, 2023 at 12:54pm
442 Comments
This looks like a political circus circle, around and around we go, where Huber Opps I mean Hur stops when he is told. nothing ventured nothing found.
DOJ has no “highest traditions”.
And just like that….the hack of the FAA system grounding all flights has disappeared from the news.
So much corruption that I need a white board the size of a football field.🤬😟 Everyday is filled with something/s new and more rotten than the last.
God have MERCY!
Federal offices in Maryland, isn’t that where Rod Rosenstein worked out of from time to time?
Unanimously appointed? Uniparty pick?
He kind of looks of Chinese heritage. (ooh, was that racist?)
How long before this ‘special’ counsel wraps its arms around and absorbs all things found on the laptop from hell?
What’s the problem?
Old Joe said his garage was locked!
BINGO!
Now we know exactly why the leaks about joe biden having top secret docs at penn/ biden chinatown and classified docs in a room near a garage that also had classified docs were said to have been found.
The leaks were timed to stop the us house of reps invesrigating biden and his son and probably most of congress on the take via china.
“Essentially it looks like AG Merrick Garland is appointing a special counsel, because (a) he has to deflect political criticism given the issues and the growing scale; and (b) because a special counsel appointment will now throw the bag of “a current investigation” over any efforts from the Republican House of Representatives to investigate the office of the presidency.”
Throw a bag over investigations is exactly the right way to put it.
All planned it would seem for this reason and others.
Deepstate corruption continues.
The deepstate uses people like AG Hur as a shield like a robber holding a hostage with a gun so the police will back off.
Also AG Hur helps the deepstate cabal “investigation” look more real.
US house if reps needs to impeach biden without an investigation about his classified docs.
Do it.
Would any of this have come out if Republicans had not won the house and more specifically, if enough of the right kind of Republicans won. Let’s be real, if Kinsinger/Dizzy Lizzy had won or Paul Ryan or similar, not a damn thing would have been revealed. And this is only revealed by demonrats so they can set up the “ongoing investigation”. The only thing more toothless than a GOPrick RINOrat investigation of demonrats is a demonrat investigation of demonrats.
Discussion ongoing at Fox with Cavuto re this story . . .
meanwhile, Paul Ryan on CNN with Jake Tapper discussing the Speaker fight!
Top secret documents have become the new fiat currency in DC.
One document can be worth 300 pounds of gold.
Why is there a conflict of an ongoing investigation? The SC is looking to see if a crime was committed by the action of handling classified documents, not what was in them. They are classified so the SC cannot view them, which was the standard the DoJ put on the Mara Lago Special Master to keep him from viewing the same. What is in the documents is fair game for the House.
Miranda Devine wrote the book on the laptop:
Miranda Devine
@mirandadevine
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One thing we should know by now is that Joe Biden isn’t paying for these pricey DC lawyers to comb through his belongings and clean up after him. So who is paying? Either the taxpayer or Dem donors – is that allowable? It’s an expensive gift which needs to be accounted for
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Last year NBC reported on 3 “war rooms” with big dark money budgets run by Dem hitmen like David Brock to combat House GOP probes against the Bidens. Those pricy lawyers required access to Joe’s secrets to effect the cleanup. Hence the searches and, no doubt, the sanitizing.
Robert K. Hur – Partner at Gibson Dunn
Hur is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and Co-Chair of the Firm’s Crisis Management Practice Group.
Sock Puppet JoeBama has been set up for his final bow before the curtain falls on his public life. The documents were neatly planted and then “some lawyers” were randomly sent on a some unrelated snipe hunt and voila …oh my goodness.
There is no way the “dumbest of the dumbest” guys in government and whom Obama says would “f*** things up” was allowed to “secretly stash” sensitive, classified stuff in this manner. There are way too many names and facts in those papers, to allow Joe to handle let alone leave them laying about.
The visit in the night to Joe with the resignation papers and requisite pardon (or sentence commuted) will be forth coming. The new VP will be the 2024 candidate designate or if needed Kamal can now serve 2-terms … the options are wide open.
Of course the democrats will attempt to get full value for Uncle Joe’s “sacrifice” and look for something to happen v/v the DoJ assault on President Trump in parallel with Joe’s resignation. [Try ths on for size…both JoeBama and President Trump have guilty hung on them and then both have their sentences commuted. President Trump is out of 2024.]
My guess for new VP is of course Governor Newsome but to do not count out Hakeem Jeffries.
The purpose of the Special Counsel is not so much to “protect JoeBama” but to PROTECT the DOCUMENTS and MATERIAL FOUND.
The Dems wll never get Newsom or Jeffries thru the House. They vote too for a new VP, heh heh
Quite the prism we look through (not just us, everyone)
We assume that Garland goes SC in short order to protect FJB with “ongoing investigation” smoke screen.
Garland is a stooge for FJB and his DOJ
Libtards assume Garland is a punk, that it took over a year to get an SC for PDJT in similar circumstances.
Garland works hand in glove with a DOJ that protects Trump.
crazy times
“Investigation” as coverup is now business as usual. Nobody has the leverage to cut through the crap.
How on Earth can there be folks who vote for Biden?
It’s patently obvious the Special Counsel is appointed to hide information/deflect investigation.
Totally FUBAR.
Can’t help but notice the picture.
Assuming Hur has loyalties to any country, which country would that be?
The same one that laundered the payoffs from U Penn?
This game is getting old.
Who was the woman with bulging eyes that talked about hiding documents from the incoming Trump administration?
She was on various news shows during the Jan. transition.
I can see her face but I can not remember her name or position.
But I think that Sundance took note of what she was saying .
Evelyn Farkas
That is her.
Thank you.
“because a special counsel appointment will now throw the bag of “a current investigation” over any efforts from the Republican House of Representatives to investigate the office of the presidency.”
My thought exactly. SC appointments serve as investigatory moats. Deja vu all over again.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/cover-biden-white-house-lawyer-failed-publicly-disclose-december-20-discovery-classified-documents-corvette-garage-initial-statement/
Personally, I think Garland appointed a special counsel, as they are now planting the seeds to remove Biden, blame him for the failure in Ukraine, etc.
December 23, 2022..Donald Trump said..
“ Now that the precedent has been set by Congress,
Donald Trump asks the same committee to release the same tax filings of the Biden family
so that a comparative dive into the financial holdings of Joe Biden can be conducted.”
Because a special counsel appointment will now throw the bag of “a current investigation” , the Republican House of Representatives needs to publish Biden’s taxes.
I don’t understand why this information would ever see the light of day. It makes FJB look bad and puts him on the defensive while reducing Trumps legal liability. We know the Deep State can hide whatever it wants for eternity so who would do this and for what purpose?
FJB Has outlived his usefulness. The Deep State has to offset Trump’s indictment with the Bidens to show justice being done. And this clears the decks for whomever the Deep State decides to install in ’24.
When Trump was the sitting president, there was talk about whether or not if he could pardon himself.
Hunter is probably talking to his dad as I write this.
I wonder when the talks will begin with Kamala to pardon the bidens when she becomes president.
Can you imagine Putin, Xi and several others, getting their morning briefing on World Affairs, but when it comes to the USA, resembles Sponge Bob Square Pants cartoons. This is horrifically tragic, but media still blames Trump for everything.
Why were Biden’s high price lawyers searching around Biden’s garage in the first place?
Kash Patel says Hur was assigned by Garland because he was first on the list to be called for testimony to Jordan’s committee….was involved in trying to block the Nunes memo re Russiagate from being released. Was Rosenstein’s lawyer when he lied to Congress.
These special counsels were appointed to cover up institutional crimes.
Kash wants Jordan to subpoena Hur because Kash has the receipts.
Defensive positioning.
So who found the dayum documents? It wasn’t Biden’s lawyers as they want us to believe.
Really no need for comments here. Your (b) in the last paragraph above is self-evident.
Yes, Garland appointed a SC, to TRY to prevent any House Investigations of Hunter/Joe, on the basis of “muh Ongoing Investigation”, however that was/is only an EXCUSE for not having Congressional Investigations.
More specifically, the Mueller Investigation gave Mitch and Ryan/McCarthy the EXCUSE they needes, for not having investigattions they had no intention or desire to have, any way.
Notice the investigations by the FBI/DOJ of the J6 “Insurrections” did NOT prevent the Un-select Committee from holding hearings on J6.
Notice during Watergate, the ongoing criminal investigations of Watergate, did NOT prevent Congress from holding hearings.
There is NOTHING, legally or Constitutionally, to prevent either House of Congress from holding hearings, even AS criminal investigations are ongoing.
ITS JUST AN EXCUSE, for “the Court of Public Opinion”, and it only “worked” because Congressional leadership had NO DESIRE to hold the hearings for Muh Russia.
Lindsey Graham became Chair of Judiciary, ‘campaigning’ for the chair, by promising investigative hearings, and once he got the chair, saying “as soon as all CRIMINAL “Ongoing Investigations” have been concluded, because we “don’t want to INTERFERE in an ‘Ongoing Criminal Investigation”.
He COULD have said; Congresssional hearings are held to gather information to inform the legislature of legislation that needs to be rewritten, or for new legislation, or “Oversite” hearings toinsure the Executive Depts are enforcing the laws, as the Legislature intended, both neccesary for its LEGISLATIVE function.
We do not investigate CRIMES, thats for the Executive.
Of coarse, if we DISCOVER any potential criminal we will of coarse make criminal referals.
Well prior to any testimony, we take depositions of the witnesses, and know exactly what they are going to say, so we will not, with our hearings disclose ANYTHING that would jeapordise an “Ongoing investigation”.
In the Watergate hearings, the Committee knew for two months, what agent Butterfield testified to; the recording system in the Oval.
The House ‘leadership’ riding McCarthy like a bull at a rodeo, should NOT agree to not hold hearings on the Bidens, just because there is a SC investigation ongoing; they should not let that DETER them, one bit.
Keep to the LEGISLATIVE intent, purpose and justification for Congressional hearings, make criminal referals ( if they should in the coarse of their investigations discover evidence of criminal wrongdoing) and PROCEED WITH THE INVESTIGATIONS AND HEARINGS.
The appointment of an SC won’t prevent congressional hearings.
What its does is allow the witnesses in the hearings to claim “ongoing investigation”.
Thus, making the hearings a waste of time.
So, I think we agree on this.
Sorry if I’m just repeating what you laid out.
Jason Foster
@JsnFostr
Robert Hur was also among those @TheJusticeDept
ID’d for the @JusticeOIG
as:
“officials who handled, participated in, or have personal knowledge of the FBI’s relationship and communications with” dossier author Christopher Steele.
According to this doc:
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Miranda Devine
@mirandadevine
In 2018 Hunter Biden claimed he owned the house where Joe Biden kept classified documents alongside his Corvette in the garage Via
@jj_talking
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Klnd of a confusing document. lt would be easy for someone like Miranda to go to the Wilmlngton assessor and look at the property record. May even be accesslble on llne
Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
NEW: The managing partner of Penn Biden think tank in DC where Biden had highly classified documents stashed concerning Ukraine was none other than Biden’s Ukraine adviser Michael Carpenter, seen here sitting next to Schiff’s Ukraine impeachment whistleblower Eric Ciaramella …
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Only thing I can think of is, they had enough of Joe,time to move on 🤔
Bring on Kamel toe 🙄
I wish I could see the script,I’m sure there’s one written somewhere 🤔
Sebastian Gorka says Smith and Hur are both compromised and should be removed as special counsels.
They should both be testifying to Jordan’s Chuch style committee.
It is the DOJ TWO-STEP again:
1] Smith investigates and charges Trump for real (for real as they can make it look).
2] Hur vacuums up all incriminating Biden documents and shields them from Congressional Republican investigations as “under the purview of the Special Counsel” .
How many times have we seen this? If Lindsay Graham calls for a Special Counsel you ought to know not to take it at face value. Everything forthcoming from this will just be for the benefit of the corporate media smoke show.