{"id":734,"date":"2023-01-25T11:36:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T16:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=734"},"modified":"2023-01-25T11:36:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T16:36:25","slug":"has-joe-biden-lost-the-consent-of-the-government-fbi-raids-hapless-presidents-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=734","title":{"rendered":"Has Joe Biden lost the consent of the government? FBI raids hapless President\u2019s home."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-10.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-735\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"880\" height=\"558\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-10.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-10.png 880w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-10-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-10-770x488.png 770w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-10-293x186.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-10-390x247.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The permanent state wants to choose the President from now on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That seems a simple explanation for the fact that the FBI has raided not one, but two presidents\u2019 homes in the past year in a bid for finding documents bearing classified markings\u2014any documents will do\u2014and with three special counsels now appointed to investigate President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump and the abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court during the 2016 election and after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Washington, D.C. establishment and mainstream media will be distracted by the mere spectacle of it all, but since 2016, this is a new form and method of establishing, not the consent of the governed, but the consent of the government\u2014epitomized by an administrative state that will hold onto power at any cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest comes as the FBI engaged in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/01\/21\/search-of-bidens-home-by-doj-finds-6-more-classified-documents.html\">yet another search of President Biden\u2019s Wilmington, Del. Home<\/a>, turning up more classified documents, this time from Biden\u2019s time as U.S. Senator prior to 2009 when he became Vice President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This comes atop documents found at a think tank then Vice President Biden used for office space from 2017 to 2019, the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/01\/10\/politics\/biden-classified-documents-iran-ukraine-united-kingdom-beau-funeral\/index.html\">some of them related to Ukraine, the United Kingdom and Iran<\/a>. More documents from his time in the Obama administration were found in his home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jack Smith and Robert Hur, appointed over the handling of classified documents in 2022 and 2023, both for papers each of them took when leaving the White House in 2021 and 2017 in Biden\u2019s case when he was the outgoing Vice President. The FBI even raided Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/speech\/attorney-general-merrick-b-garland-delivers-remarks-appointment-special-counsel\">Garland\u2019s Nov. 18 announcement<\/a>&nbsp;of the appointment of the special counsel, Trump\u2019s Nov. 15 announcement he was running for president in the constitutionally prescribed 2024 election was the rationale for the heightened criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Garland stated, \u201cBased on recent developments, including the former President\u2019s announcement that he is a candidate for President in the next election, and the sitting President\u2019s stated intention to be a candidate as well, I have concluded that it is in the public interest to appoint a Special Counsel.\u201d\u00a0Here, Garland admitted that the justification for the special counsel was political: Trump and Biden are running against each other in the next election.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In order for a special counsel to be appointed, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/cfr\/text\/28\/600.1\">28 C.F.R. 600.1<\/a>, the Attorney General must determine \u201cthat [a] criminal investigation of a person or matter is warranted and\u2026 investigation or prosecution of that person or matter by a United States Attorney\u2019s Office or litigating Division of the Department of Justice would present a conflict of interest for the Department or other extraordinary circumstances\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, Biden has one, too, since Garland says he cannot investigate his boss, either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both Trump and Biden are presumed presidential candidates in 2024.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the meantime, the third special counsel, John Durham, continues his own investigation of the Justice Department\u2019s handling of its fake investigation of Trump beginning in 2016, falsely accusing him of being&nbsp; a Russian agent in order to justify carrying on a years-long top secret investigation into his campaign and ultimately his administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It all began 2016, when the Democratic Party\u2019s nominee for president, Hillary Clinton, had an FBI investigation of her own because she was storing classified information on her private server for the convenience of reading her classified emails on a smartphone. Details of the investigation came out throughout the campaign, resulting in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytorch.com\/2016\/07\/hillary-always-going-get-away-keeping-classified-information-private-email-server\/\">former FBI Director James Comey\u2019s July 2016 determination not to pursue charges<\/a>\u00a0and then an Oct. 2016 surprise that he was reopening the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Determined to ensure that her opponent, then candidate Donald Trump, would not be without an investigation of his own, the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee sought to frame him as a Russian agent who had helped Moscow hack the DNC and put the emails onto Wikileaks. It resulted in a top secret FBI investigation and FISA warrants that all carried over after the 2016 election when Trump won and into his administration, ultimately resulting in Special Counsel Robert Mueller being appointed to investigate\u2014severely hampering the Trump presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mueller&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytorch.com\/2019\/04\/the-mueller-report-vindicates-trump-with-no-conspiracy-with-russia-so-why-was-the-collusion-probe-ever-pursued-in-the-first-place\/\">found there was no Trump campaign conspiracy with Russia<\/a>&nbsp;to hack the DNC and give the emails to Wikileaks. According to Mueller\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/storage\/report.pdf\">final report<\/a>&nbsp;to the Attorney General, \u201cthe evidence was not sufficient to charge that any member of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with representatives of the Russian government to interfere in the 2016 election.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report added, \u201cIn particular, the Office did not find evidence likely to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Campaign officials such as Paul Manafort, George Papadopoulos, and Carter Page acted as agents of the Russian government \u2014 or at its direction, control or request \u2014 during the relevant time period.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a result, in 2020, outgoing Attorney General William Barr appointed Special Counsel John Durham to investigate the legal predicate for that investigation, which he says wasn\u2019t there.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, if you want to count Comey\u2019s own inquiry into Clinton, the last three would-be presidents have had Justice Department investigation. Maybe we should call it the first in the nation Deep State primary. One wonders how many delegates towards the presidential nomination a special counsel warrants or demerits, but unfortunately it appears to be a secret ballot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/dailytorch.com\/2023\/01\/has-joe-biden-lost-the-consent-of-the-government-fbi-raids-hapless-presidents-home\/\">https:\/\/dailytorch.com\/2023\/01\/has-joe-biden-lost-the-consent-of-the-government-fbi-raids-hapless-presidents-home\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The permanent state wants to choose the President from now on. That seems a simple explanation for the fact that the FBI has raided not one, but two presidents\u2019 homes in the past year in a bid for finding documents bearing classified markings\u2014any documents will do\u2014and with three special counsels now appointed to investigate President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump and the abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court during the 2016 election and after. The Washington, D.C. establishment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-biden"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}