The FBI declined to comment on Tuesday on claims that investigators searched President Joe Biden‘s Washington office in November of last year.
If you ask the FBI to comment, they just refer you to the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of the Special Counsel. That’s exactly why Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel, so that they can avoid answering questions by referring you to the special counsel who will only tell you that he can’t talk about an ongoing investigation. It’s a scam move.
Unnamed sources told Fox News and CBS News that FBI agents searched the president’s think tank, the Penn Biden Center, in mid-November. It came after Biden’s personal lawyers discovered sensitive information there on November 2, and it’s unclear whether the agents took any additional documents.
According to those accounts, Biden’s team was fully aware of the search and consented to it. According to the reports, which again cited anonymous sources, there was no search warrant involved. Should anyone trust that Joe Biden did not tell the FBI to grab documents he shouldn’t have had and don’t own up to it? We have learned through experience that this administration is willing to do anything to cover their own rear ends.
In response to other news sites on Tuesday, the DOJ and FBI both declined to comment on such stories. On Tuesday, the White House Counsel’s Office did not reply to calls for comment, and the Biden administration has not publicly commented on the reports. They went into full radio silence mode.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELThe FBI’s examination of the Penn Biden Center had previously gone unnoticed by White House officials or Biden’s personal lawyers. Why do you think that is?
According to the AP, the White House and the president’s personal lawyers did not directly talk about the search or comment on the matter on Tuesday. The White House and the president’s personal lawyers have been criticized by Republicans and even some Democrats for being slow to release information and for not giving enough information about the discovery of classified documents.
“We have been transparent in the last couple of days, remember there is an ongoing process and we have spoken when it is appropriate,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters earlier this month after confidential materials were discovered at the Penn Biden Center.
In a January 21 statement, the president’s personal attorney, Bob Bauer, acknowledged that FBI agents had searched and taken custody of classified records at the president’s Wilmington, Delaware home the day before, saying the search “was consistent with the process described in the statement we released on January 14 and followed after the personal attorney’s discovery of the documents found at the Penn Biden Center.”
Who would send $1,000 an hour attorneys to look for classified documents at your home or at your think tank?
After it was revealed that Biden had kept classified documents after leaving office, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed former U.S. Attorney Robert Hur as special counsel to supervise the investigation into his handling of the documents. This was more than likely to help Biden get out of trouble.
“The extraordinary circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel for this matter, Garland said in announcing the move. I strongly believe that the normal processes of this department can handle all investigations with integrity. But under the regulations, the extraordinary circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel for this matter,” he noted.
Last week, both Democratic and Republican legislators urged the DOJ and the White House to be more forthcoming about their investigations into Biden’s and former President Donald Trump‘s handling of secret documents. Don’t hold your breath.
Mark Warner (D-VA), the Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman, said to reporters last week, “We don’t want to get into a question of threats at this point. But we want to say this though: We have a job to do, it is our job to make sure that the security of our country is protected and that the intelligence that our country depends upon is not compromised.” He added, “The notion that we have to wait until a special prosecutor blesses the intelligence committee’s oversight will not stand.”
Around the same time, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) informed reporters that “there will be pain as a consequence” of the Biden administration’s obstruction. Cotton stated that he will “take every step I can” to prevent nominees from being confirmed or to withhold funding for federal programs.
Former Vice President Mike Pence said last month that classified documents were discovered at his Indiana home.
According to the Presidential Records Act, all documents from the president and vice president must be turned up to the United States National Archives after the administration ends. However, a president has the authority to classify and declassify at will according to a Supreme Court decision in 1988 on the Department of the Navy vs Egan, and another case was decided in 2012 called Judicial Watch vs National Archives and Records Administration, where the judge ruled that a president has the right to determine what are considered presidential records that he may keep and NARA has no authority to tell the president to return the documents.
