During a press conference today, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Robert K Hur as Special Counsel to investigate the Joe Biden classified documents that were removed from the White House during President Obama’s term in office (2009 through January 2017). The timeline given by AG Garland does not match up with prior DOJ statements and lawyers representing Joe Biden.
[SOURCES: DOJ Video Here – AG Garland Transcript Here – AG Press Release Here]
The timeline as described by AG Merrick Garland:
♦ Nov 4, 2022 – National Archives notifies DOJ of classified documents located at Penn-Biden Center
♦ Nov 9, 2022 – Garland instructs FBI to conduct assessment of classified documents and investigate
♦ Nov 14, 2022 – Garland instructs USAO Laush to conduct investigation of events and documents
♦ Dec 20, 2022 – Biden Lawyers tell USAO Laush of additional classified documents in Delaware
♦ Jan 5, 2023 – USAO Lausch briefs AG Garland and recommends a special counsel be appointed
♦ Jan 12, 2023 – Biden Lawyers inform Lausch/Garland additional documents found in Delaware
♦ Jan 12, 2023 – Garland appoints Special Counsel Robert Hur
If the FBI began investigating on November 9th, and USAO Lausch began investigating on November 14th, then why was it Joe Biden lawyers informing Laush of additional classified documents found in Delaware on December 20th? Why did the FBI and Lausch not find them?
Why was it Joe Biden Lawyers informing USAO Lausch on January 12th about the third batch of classified documents? Again, where was the FBI and John Lausch?
Nothing about this timeline as described by AG Garland makes sense when contrast with the lawyers from Joe Biden saying earlier today, the Biden team was still doing a classified document search through “last night.”
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From AG Merrick Garland remarks (emphasis mine):
[Transcript] […] “On the evening of November 4, 2022, the National Archives Office of Inspector General contacted a prosecutor at the Department of Justice. It informed him that the White House [Counsel] had notified the Archives that documents bearing classification markings were identified at the office of the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, located in Washington, D.C. That office was not authorized for storage of classified documents. The prosecutor was also advised that those documents had been secured in an Archives facility.
On November 9, the FBI commenced an assessment, consistent with standard protocols, to understand whether classified information had been mishandled in violation of federal law.
On November 14, pursuant to Section 600.2(b) of the Special Counsel regulations, I assigned U.S. Attorney Lausch to conduct an initial investigation to inform my decision whether to appoint a Special Counsel.
Mr. Lausch has served as the U.S. Attorney in Chicago since 2017. Before that, he spent more than a decade as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in that same office. I selected him to conduct the initial investigation because I was confident his experience would ensure that it would be done professionally and expeditiously.
On December 20, President Biden’s personal counsel informed Mr. Lausch that additional documents bearing classification markings were identified in the garage of the President’s private residence in Wilmington, Delaware. President Biden’s counsel informed Mr. Lausch that those documents were among other records from the period of the President’s service as Vice President. The FBI went to the location and secured those documents.
On January 5, 2023, Mr. Lausch briefed me on the results of his initial investigation and advised me that further investigation by a Special Counsel was warranted. 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 morning [January 12, 2023], President Biden’s personal counsel called Mr. Lausch and stated that an additional document bearing classification markings was identified at the President’s personal residence in Wilmington, Delaware. [More]
The timeline doesn’t make sense. What was the FBI and John Lausch doing for two months? Something is not adding up.
Also, you don’t appoint a Special Counsel on the day it is announced. There had to be some discussion with Robert Hur in the lead up to the announcement today.
We still don’t know what the classified documents were about, how old they are, or how many of them exist. The only thing confirmed is the documents pertain to the timeline of the Obama-Biden administration which was January 2009 through January 2017.
The Penn-Biden Center didn’t exist until 2018, so where were the classified documents between the time they were taken and the time they were discovered in the office.
As Vice President Joe Biden had no authority to declassify government documents and could not possess classified documents.
So many questions…. Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe gives a good summary of some main issues.
Hard listening to Dana Parino…what a tool
Surprised they let Ratcliff speak.
Devon Nunes, too. He’s saying Twitter told him there were no signs of Russian activity or bots in the Trump-Russian collusion now that Musk released the info in another dump.
Jealousy will get you nowhere. She is one of the smartest Newscasters ever. Why not listen to CNN or MSNBC. They might be in your category.
All this smoke and mirrors re the Demented Fraud having classified documents is nothing but trash designed to lessen the impact of made up charges against PDT
They have to make it look “nonpartisan”
Garland is an utter pos…
You are being way too kind.
You left out‘criminal’
Don’t insult feces!
This being released is designed and purposeful, however hurried it may appear to be. There is a plan behind all this, perhaps an agenda, perhaps forced by dementia joe’s deterioration or some other immediacy known only to the planners. But none of this is just “happening”. The people who made epstein go away and two elections go one way do not allow random events to interfere. If we weren’t supposed to hear all this being reported, we wouldn’t. Hate to say that, but look at events over the last two years.
The truth is that Russia is winning and winning big in the war with the Neo-Nazis in Ukraine. The left do NOT want the entire story to come out about the US led coup in 2014 that removed the elected president of Ukraine in 2014.
The coup was under the direct control of Victoria Nuland. The fact that over forty US financed and controlled bio-warfare labs were operated in Ukraine is also something the US has to hide.
A total Russian victory will expose the money laundering by Biden, Pelosi, Mitt Romney and Al Gore and others who were all involved in illegal activities in Ukraine.
Any peace agreement with Russia will have to take all of these issues into account. Meanwhile the Ukrainian oligarch who controls Volodymyr Zelenskyy. is almost certainly blackmailing the US over the what has been going on with the US deep state with Ukraines PrivatBank in order to collect tens of billions of dollars.
BINGO!
So, will McCarthy be one heartbeat away from President?
Be a good time for the REAL US military to do what they’re supposed to!!!
But, but, but, the Republicans and/or Pres. Trump planted all these docs in cooperation/ collusion with Russia! Says the Dems. /sarc
Don’t kid around that might just be what the crooked Dems will say.
Wake me up when the Dems start going to the monkey house!
Is it possible that Biden has outlived his usefulness to the deep state? Was any information or documentation planted by the deep state? And by going after Biden on the same exact charge as Trump, they could get rid of Biden – possibly by resigning – and rearrange the admin to have much greater power – and go deeper after Trump. Their mantra would be that they prosecuted Biden, so Trump has no defense not to be prosecuted. The public would buy into this like swallowing hotdogs at Coney Island on the 4th of July.
Trump was POTUS; Biden was Obama’s VP….Big Difference.
it IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE INDEED.
dealing with that constitutional difference is a very big problem for the DEMS.
it IS ALSO A VERY BIG PROBLEM FOR OBAMA.
Why WAS biden permitted to take classified documents from the white house?
God Bless America
Bag man for the Kenyans dirty deeds documents why else. A tangled web of deceit
Why was Ovomit allowed to ship off all his docs & lock them up tightly with no access for 10 yrs?
And why is no one talking about Biden placing all the docs from his Senate yrs at the Univ of Delaware under lock & key?
Because Ovomit was installed, and was NEVER qualified to be POTUS. DS owns them both—lock, stock, and barrel!
Nice question!
Damn near anything is possible with this *hitsow. The best speculation I’ve seen all harmonizes with the information Sundance offers.
It does seem that some truly strange and seemingly ‘panic’ like ‘news’ has been rolling in suddenly for some reason right?
Fake ‘president’ biden was always disposable. He’s been that way for over 50 years.
Maybe this is the end of him… But it’ll just be another tossed aside tool for them…(it?).
Kamala anyone???
The difference is President Trump had the legal authority to declassify documents and take them with him. VP Biden did not.
Moreover, Mar-a-Lago is a secured facility with a SCIF and secret service protection. All three of Biden’s locations were not SCIFs, they were unsecured and had no secret service protection for 4 years or more
Your first sentence is absolutely ‘bat on’. Of course they have reached the point of complete usefulness. Now they have to get rid of him. I disagree that they will prosecute him or even go after Trump. He is getting sicker and they can’t handle him anymore. The ‘behind the scenes’ President will step in and the end will be near. The Vice President doesn’t compare to the protection of Vice President so his resignation would be meaningless. This is just another Socialist tactic being planned by people covering their ‘dirt’. The Democrat Party is falling apart. Maybe the corruptness will all be revealed and the Democrat Party will all collapse. We need to pray for their self-destruction.
Expendable empty suit.
DOJ special Investigators/Counsels: where truth goes to die.
If the republican House continues to insist on allowing DOJ to set up special counsels and REFUSES to even discuss reviving from the dead, the INDEPENDENT COUNSEL process, nothing will change.
What can we expect from this DOJ/special counsel: Sorry, but we cannot discuss anything related to this matter as there is an “ongoing investigation”. It will remain “ongoing” until biden leaves office/die. And then on a late saturday night in 2045, “case closed, nothing to see here”.
we’ve seen this movie before.
maybe the special counsel will arrest some jackwagon who jaywalked or made a congessional member nervous with a social media taunt. Maybe.
SC: where truth goes to die and scofflaws and criminals are protected.
God Bless America
Bingo!
If not then darker plans are in play.
The only thing we can be 100% certain of is that this is definitely NOT a come to Jesus moment for the powers and principalities responsible for this mess.
It has been a murder and a liar from the beginning.
It is the father of lies.
It which attempts quite literally to invert reality.
Looks like Robert Hur was picked for a good reason:
“Hur’s background is notable since he was the US Attorney who requested that the justification of an FBI raid on a reportedly recognized Clinton Foundation whistleblower’s home remain secret.”
From Zerohedge
This guy certainly got around.
He’s former King and Spalding.
Along with Wray, Sally Yates and a past cast of miscreants.
Guilt by association, IMO.
Just noticed something that escaped me earlier.
Look at the picture of HUR that Sundance posted. Purple tie.
Now, where have we seen that before?
Wish to God that someone would speak up at a press conference
and ask all these assholes if they might, by chance have another
color of tie to wear. It’s getting to easy to spot the sell outs.
Have a feeling that’s why the picture was posted.
Sux!
Thefederalist.com has a great post on this today… fact that the moron has been sitting on classified docs for 7yrs is criminal. Dems know DeSantis would devour this sociopathic liar in 2024.
RDS is not much different. Never voting for Ron DeepState.
Agree. FRDS
The answer is simple, the special council was appointed to block out congress from any meaningful investigations. “Sorry, you can’t have access to that because of muh’special council”
If Joke Xiden and Camelah Harris somehow were removed we get mccarthy as Prez.
Whoopee I guess
Is that why mccarthy wouldn’t step aside?
He’d been promissed the Oval Office.
No
No offense, but that only applies if the Pres. and VP both die unexpectantly. Otherwise, it’s like when Congress installed Gerald Ford as president. McArthy “could” be picked, but most likely not.
Ford was already VP when Nixon resigned office.
Remember the joke – “We have a Ford in office but no gas.”
I’m guessing, but the documents are likely white house memos and internal communications related to unmasking, and probably “matters” related to obama directing/agreeing to social media censorship and manufacturing and echo chambering the russia russia hoax/fraud.
Why did it end up with Biden?
Also guessing: biden is the biggest fool in the room. It would not surprise me one bit if these documents were PLACED in his name/locations by team obama to make him the fall guy. And probably the ONLY reason Obama had his as his smelly number deuce.
also guessing: joe malarkey has been a dummy for a very long time. OPSEC and secrecy requires intelligence, and that ship sailed long ago with this jackwagon. He is gaffe personafied. And a pathological liar.
the worst kind of bullshiter too.
there are three types of liars:
some who bullshits and actually gets rewarded.
some who bullshit trying to win something but not good at it.
bullshits who make stuff up with nothing to be gained by doing so.
joe malarkey started off as the first type..but as bullshiters are want to do over time, they can’t keep use these lies over the long term. This breaks down into failure, and he has this in spades. Now joe malarkey is a complete fool with nothing to be gained at all with his obvious bullshit.
It’s not so much about his age either. Bullshitters have a fundamental flaw: they get lost in their own delusions ..some quicker than others.
joe malarkey is the type of guy who lies to himself…he enjoys it. He probably “believes” he is good at it and there is something BIG that gets acccomplished with his BS.
this is WHY HE WAS INSTALLED.
he is a fool that everyone will notice and not be looking at the real criminals in the background running the white house and making the big decisions. He is the village idiot that is the product of the most absurd criminal treason this country has ever witnessed.
the only difference between this moron and the town drunk is the town drunk has a good reason to do foolish things…
when alcohol wants to get drunk and be a fool it drinks joe malarkey…
I think maybe 10 million people voted for joe malarkey…at best. That’s the only way I can make sense of this rotten business.
there are two possibilities:
There are two possibilities:
1. The election was a fraud. There was a coup and a conspiracy to install the senile navel gazing ambulatory basement dwelling imbecile, aka, Joe Malarkey because President Trump was too much of a threat to the globalists and their private agenda.
OR
2. Millions of Americans actually did roll out in record numbers setting every single record ever for a presidential election and chose Joe Malarkey as THEIR LEADER!
BOTH POSSIBILITIES ARE EQUALLY TERRIFYING !
God Bless America
“…he is a fool that everyone will notice and not be looking at the real criminals in the background…”
JB’s resume and job description in one breath. Brilliant.
“Bullshitters have a fundamental flaw: they get lost in their own delusions ..some quicker than others.
joe malarkey is the type of guy who lies to himself…he enjoys it. He probably “believes” he is good at it and there is something BIG that gets accomplished with his BS.”
Say it loud. Say it proud.
This shell of a man has been convinced by his handlers & his tart for a wife that he’s doing a great job for America! That he’s the best president ever when in reality he’s destroying America faster than even Ovomit & Hillary together.
I wonder if DS surveillance found that the Republican investigators were about to subpoena those documents, and have quickly moved to protect them under the shield of “already part of a special council’s investigation”…?
But I still think this is more likely misdirection, focusing the national spotlight on an impending crisis that will require constitution-bending response to “save democracy.”
Sleepy Joe’s White House residency has surely been being saved–as Joubert said to Condor–“for that day.”
if it’s too good to be true, it is
when the DOJ announces ANYTHING, it has an agenda that has NOTHING to do with Justice.
see barr, see huber, see durham, watch these two “new” SC people..also selected by the DOJ to “perform bondo and spray paint)
my perspective, simple, learned from someone who had demonstrated more truth telling and realistic expectations than anyone I have ever read and followed:
“we do not flinch” – sundance
God Bless America
Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Tony Blinken, China. All had access to Biden’s office at the Penn Center. Selling US secrets?
Bingo!
This certainly has an appearance of impropriety.
I wish they would just get on with whatever fresh new hell they’ve thought up for us. I’m so sick of the dog and pony show and the pretending.
Commas
“People know I take classified documents and classified materials seriously,” the president added.
“People know I take classified documents and classified materials, seriously,” the president added.
Rush always said if the media and deep state made you, they can break you. Looks like breaking time for Brandon. They never can break Trump because they had nothing to do with his rise to political significance. I’m not sure Brandon’s enemies know what the consequences are because Harris is a clown show. The house of cards is crumbling. God always wins!
“I smell a big, fat, commie rat!”
I dunno…there’s something else going on, that we are not supposed to notice. TPTB had Biden’s classified trash in-hand for long enough to strategize how and what to do with it. And wow – it’s all being ‘discovered’ and addressed in a very small timeframe. None of their typical delays, dissembling, denials and counter-accusations. As a wise man once said: “Watch the other hand.”
Nothing like a Dr Strangelove reference to add levity.
What did Biden know and when did he forget that he knew it ?
Three reasons this is playing out now… Tucker Carlson explained the first of the three tonight…
1. To get rid of Biden. They can’t have him run in 2024 but they also couldn’t risk losing (not stealing) 2020.
I add my next two theories to cap off the plan …
2. Put Kamala in asap in order to appoint the next democrat presidential candidate as her VP who will be solidly in place to run in 24
3. By taking Biden down it provides democrats the path to finally achieve their most important goal…indict Trump to take him out with the goal of stopping him from being elected the third time and actually being President again ensuring they are able to take power in their delusional minds forever
Favorite tweet that crossed my timeline today:
PREDICTION: Under pressure, Biden will be forced to resign later this year. Kamala shall ascend to the presidency. She will change her residency to Washington DC. Six months into her presidency, she will nominate Gavin Newsom as her VP. The President and VP can’t be from the same state, hence the six month waiting period. Five RINOs in the House will affirm the appointment. Then, in 2024, Kamala will resign (under mortal threat from the deep state) and President Newsom will be the incumbent President to run in 2024 against DeSantis. Newsom will be selected President.
Textbook. Very solid prediction.
Doesn’t make sense from the get-go: How did the National Archives discover the documents were at Penn Center?
FJB’s personal lawyers were removing his files & effects from the Penn Biden Center Office & encountered boxes in a locked closet. In searching thru the boxes they found documents with classified notations. They immediately “stopped” (LOL) & called the National Archives. Archives called the DOJ/FBI 2 days later.
FJB apparently used the office from 2018 until he launched his campaign & moved to his basement in Wilmington to launch his campaign in 2019. No ones knows where the files were in between leaving the VP office in Jan. 2017 & moving into Penn Center when it opened in 2018 or why they’re in 2 or 3 different places now.
That’s the story for now…..
Hey Joe
Sorry you are done.
Found classified documents showing the Chinks payed and delivered the corvette to you for favors.
What if the plan is to justify indicting trump by also indicting Biden? Equal justice under the law and kills 2 birds with one stone. Neither can run in 2024.
President Trump did not break any laws. The pervert did.
Biden was always going to be shoved down the stairs after the midterms. This is just the various predictions playing out.
The bonus for the DOJ is they will testify before the “weaponization” committee and claim they are the ones playing things straight. They didn’t have to raid Biden’s home because he had all the illegally-possessed classified piled up in the corner of the garage whereas Pres Trump had his papers legally and properly stored in a SCIF.
I expect more Democrats to get DOJ visits, and the DOJ and FBI have to dump Hunter Biden in a dumpster somewhere in the hope that by doing so they can claim they didn’t rig the 2020 election.
The SC also allows DOJ to refuse to testify to the “weaponization” committee about their fraudulent investigation of Trump and their current attempt to overthrown a sitting – even if illegitimately so – President.
My guess is to get kameltoe in for 10 years.
What a great f you and humiliation to the American people.
Makes sense to me.
The DOJ allowed Trump’s lawyers to search for more documents. They even signed an afadavit.
As for Lausch…he was revlewng the documents to assess any nat securlty damage.
As for Hur, lt took Garland a week to find a Spec Counsel. Nothlng odd about that, elther
My opinion: The public timeline of this is somewhat irrelevant. It is unclear when the presence of these documents was actually known, but what IS known is that their presence was known WELL BEFORE any public announcement. As the powers that be often do, they sat upon the info about these documents until an appropriate time to publicize them. So, what would be an appropriate time? It would be a time when those powers have decided that it is time to begin the removal of Joe Biden from the White House.
This may also be the impetus for beginning to extricate the US from the mess it created and continues to support in Ukraine, as well.
Could it be that the Ukraine money laundering scheme is about to break out into the open? It sure looks like Dementia Joe is being teed up as a scapegoat for a multitude of sins.
“Ukraine is Republicans’ #1 priority,” said Republican leader Mitch McConnell as he & his 18 member Anti-America squad approved the $1.7 trillion Omnibus Bill, giving Ukraine another $45 billion in “aid.”
IMHAO, you could be right. You can only fend off the Burisma-Ukraine-Biden connection for so long once things start boiling over & then the media is going to be looking at Republican rumors as they are always apt to do.
McCain has been dead long enough that Lindsey Graham is no longer safe & maybe Drmocrats Klobuchar & Chris Murphy aren’t either.
My thought was if you get a list of Republicans & Democrats who have visited Ukraine immediately before & after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, you’d know who was participating in the kickbacks/ money laundering because who goes to active war zones since Hillary & Chelsea were fired at in Bosnia or Serbia?? Both Pelosi & McConnell have been to Ukraine.
I believe the appointment of a special counsel serves only to set up the national security wall so effectively used in the Russian collusion effort. The documents, I am sure, expose lots of others in Obama’s and Biden’s earlier money laundering schemes. The people controlling this shit show may not want and or intend for Biden to run again, but they don’t need to get rid of him this way. Something else is happening here.
The beneficiaries :-
the DNC – way to remove Biden from running 2024
Biden – can’t be investigated (or at least difficult) by Congress whilst there is an ongoing two year? investigation by DOJ (protected by DOJ)
Recall that last year the National Archives mob claimed they had control over all of the Obama Administration’s documents, including classified documents and that Obama had fully cooperated, etc., etc. Except it now appears Biden stuffed some of those documents the NA claimed it controlled in his pants and stored them in the back of the garage after he left office SIX years ago. And then took some of those classified docs to his Penn Biden shakedown office when that office opened about 18 months AFTER Biden left office.
Obama must’ve directed this all remain quiet until after the election. Were it not for republicans taking the House, the WH and the media still would be suppressing this story.
This has all the makings of another Obama hit job, a warning shot fired across the WH’s bow: Joe, forget about that announcement you’re running for reelection in 2024.
I’m not sure FJB’s ego or his wife will let him drop out, resign, retire, etc. His handlers & his voters have made him feel like he’s the best president ever, even better than Ovomit….That is, when he remembers he’s President.
He’s been in the pay-to-play business since at least 1973 when he was sworn in as Senator. IMHAO, it’s in his long-term memory which is usually the last thing to go in dementia & old age patients. He doesn’t believe he can be “caught” or that the MSM will turn on him because he’s always used his brother James, Hunter & other family members as the front man for his schemes.
Look at how the Biden family uses grandson “Beau” as a foil for all their “family” time together. And now that Hunter is out of major trouble, he’s back to spending a lot of time at the WH & working the room at soirees & WH functions.
CONJECTURE: the DOJ/FBI knew all about the Biden docs long ago, probably not long after he left the VP office. The only thing that changed was increasing worry that the truth would eventually come out, along with question of why DOJ didn’t prosecute. To insulate Bidens from inevitable indictment they needed to first concoct a classified docs scandal against Trump so they could appear even-handed by dropping both prosecutions. Ergo, conduct preposterous but highly visible raid on Mar-a-Lago with photo leaks and appointment of special prosecutor. This also explains why Biden’s lawyers are doing the searching: the DOJ already has the list of locations/docs and is telling them where to look, so they can appear to be “cooperating” by “discovering” the documents themselves.
C’mon man, where were the doc’s between 2017 and 2018? Biden’s Penn “Think Tank” office wasn’t available until 2018.
It’s ironic that Russian MSM right now is discussing the nuclear Apocalypse as they see it and honor in dying for the mother Land while we Americans haggle these details about classified documents. So so sad…
Wouldn’t this be another case of the DS creating an investigation to hide information from the committees?
This way they can claim an active investigation to keep from having to share sensitive info with oversite!
Anything from those multiple locations would fall under “evidence” in an active investigation and not available to the house representatives.
Is anyone surprised that Trump was fully transparent and followed all the regulations that apply and is threatened with continuous criticism and even accused of a treasonous act that may warrant the death penalty ?
Meanwhile the Resident and Cheat with severely eroding mental capacity does more and worse real criminal activity from his positions in federal offices and it’s move along nothing to see here just an honest mistake as a Chi Com agents tunes up my corvette 🤪 WELCOME TO LEFTISTS BIZARRO LAND
WASHINGTON DC
now the ASSHOLE OF OUR ONCE GREAT REPUBLIC
Nothing “lines up” with these “occupiers”
They installed Joe in plain sight and can remove him the same way.
Hard to miss, we have NO functioning system of laws or adherence to our Constitution.
We’re in a free fall and refusing to admit it.