Joe Biden's classified documents stonewall continues
It's confusing (at best) when Biden's personal attorneys are allowed to sit through classified documents while the FBI is allowed to sit at home and enjoy their evening. As Kim Strassel highlights in this article, "The Journal reported Tuesday that, soon after the discovery, the Biden team 'discussed with the Justice Department the prospect of having FBI agents present while Mr. Biden’s lawyers conducted the additional searches. Instead, the two sides agreed that Mr. Biden’s personal attorneys would inspect the homes.'"
Former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy "says this decision 'boggles the mind.' The initial documents, including some classified at the highest security level, were discovered in an office that didn’t open until 2018—meaning they were moved there from yet another unauthorized location and heightening the likelihood of more document finds. Mr. McCarthy says the Justice Department is 'duty bound' to ensure searches are 'done by federal law enforcement agents—in this case, the FBI—when there are grounds to believe evidence, especially classified evidence, will be recovered.' Only agents 'with high security clearances' could 'ensure that the evidence was preserved for investigative purposes, and that national security was thus protected."
Despite the fact that they haven't followed the law, Joe Biden says he doesn't have any regrets:
I'm betting he doesn't have any regrets. With Biden's personal attorneys conducting the search instead of the FBI conducting the search, I'd be grinning ear-to-ear if I was Biden.Instead, the process was left entirely to Mr. Biden’s private lawyers, who didn’t have security clearances—allowing them access to national secrets and the potential to glean the nature of the material found (which might be useful in a later Biden defense). It also allowed them to craft the circumstances of the discovery—where they were, their condition, whether they were easily observable. The department allowed this process to continue even after the first tranche of additional documents was discovered—even though this confirmed the potential for yet more.Who needs discovery when you've already seen the documents? That's better than having a snitch on the inside.
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