{"id":574,"date":"2023-01-19T11:32:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T16:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=574"},"modified":"2023-01-19T11:32:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T16:32:04","slug":"fbi-decided-not-to-monitor-biden-document-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"FBI Decided Not To Monitor Biden Document Search"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After President Biden\u2019s lawyers found classified documents at an office he used at a DC think tank, His Justice Department considered, and then declined, a plan to have FBI agents monitor a search for classified documents at his residences, in order to \u2018avoid complicating later stages of the investigation,\u2019 and because Biden\u2019s attorneys \u2018had quickly turned over a first batch and were cooperating,\u2019 the Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a> reports, citing people familiar with the matter.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, the DOJ decided that it would be just fine for Biden\u2019s lawyers to conduct the additional searches by themselves<\/strong>, and would agree to immediately notify the Justice Department if they found any other potentially classified records \u2013 after which law-enforcement authorities would take them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The arrangement meant that FBI agents wouldn\u2019t bear witness to things such as the volume, or contents, of whatever might turn up. This is, of course, the same FBI <\/strong>that participated in a plan (and fabricated evidence) in a plot to frame former President Trump as a Russian asset, and then ran cover for the Bidens during the 2020 US election <\/strong>\u2013 telling social media companies that Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop, or anything like it, was likely Russian disinformation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the week since news reports first surfaced about the documents, the incident has drawn parallels to the discovery of a much larger number of documents at former President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, which federal agents obtained a warrant to search in August<\/a> after more than a year of negotiations between Mr. Trump\u2019s lawyers, the National Archives and the Justice Department and after Mr. Trump\u2019s lawyers said all documents had been returned. -WSJ<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

After the initial finding at the Penn-Biden Center in early November (and not disclosed until last week), classified materials were discovered on three separate occasions<\/a> <\/strong>in Biden\u2019s Wilmington house in December and January, in the garage and a room adjacent to it, White House lawyer Richard Sauber said last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Sauber, the documents were \u201cinadvertently placed\u201d at the locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump supporters have accused the DOJ of a double standard<\/strong> in the handling of the Biden situation vs. Trump\u2019s. And of course, as President, Trump\u2019s ability to declassify the documents obtained in the raid remains a constitutional grey area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden\u2019s supporters have pointed to the president\u2019s cooperation, however the DOJ\u2019s willingness to let Biden\u2019s lawyers conduct unsupervised searches is obviously fraught with concern<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the White House, it\u2019s no big deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NBC News' Peter Alexander repeatedly presses Karine Jean-Pierre about the White House claiming that Republicans are "faking outrage" over Biden's classified document scandal.

"Why shouldn't Americans be upset about documents found in a garage?" he asks.

She can't answer. pic.twitter.com\/zTdd3SkkmN<\/a><\/p>— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) January 17, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>