Reply to Special Counsel Report on Classified Documents

Forum Index » Political Discussion

Reply to "Special Counsel Report on Classified Documents"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Well said Heather Cox Richardson …

Yesterday, Special Counsel Robert Hur, appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland in January 2023 to investigate President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents before he was president, released his report. It begins: “We conclude that no criminal charges are warranted in this matter. We would reach the same conclusion even if Department of Justice policy did not foreclose criminal charges against a sitting president.” [u]The Department of Justice closed a similar case against former Vice President Mike Pence on June 1, 2023, days before Pence announced his presidential bid, with a brief, one-page letter. 
[/u]
[b]But in Biden’s case, what followed the announcement that he had not broken a law was more than 300 pages of commentary, including assertions that Biden was old, infirm, and losing his marbles and even that “[h]e did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died[/b]” (p. 208).

As television host and former Republican representative from Florida Joe Scarborough put it: “[b]He couldn’t indict Biden legally so he tried to indict Biden politically.”[/b]

Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and their teams came out swinging against [b]what amounted to a partisan hit job by a Republican special counsel[/b]. [b]The president’s lawyers noted that it is not Department of Justice practice and protocol to criticize someone who is not going to be charged, and tore apart Hur’s nine references to Biden’s memory in contrast to his willingness to “accept…other witnesses’ memory loss as completely understandable given the passage of time.” [/b]
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics