Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

68 Days of Silence: Why the White House Stayed Mum on Classified Documents [barf alert]
NYT ^ | 1/20/2023 | Michael D. Shear, Peter Baker and Katie Rogers

Posted on 01/20/2023 5:51:35 AM PST by logi_cal869

The decision by President Biden and his top advisers to keep the discovery of classified documents secret from the public and even most of the White House staff for 68 days was driven by what turned out to be a futile hope that the incident could be quietly disposed of without broader implications for Mr. Biden or his presidency.

The handful of advisers who were aware of the initial discovery on Nov. 2 — six days before the midterm elections — gambled that without going public, they could convince the Justice Department that the matter was little more than a minor, good-faith mistake, unlike former President Donald J. Trump’s hoarding of documents at his Florida estate.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: biden; classifieddocuments; cmonmanitsacorvette; democrathypocrisy; katierogers; michaeldshear; peterbaker
In fact, the Biden strategy was profoundly influenced by the Trump case, in which the former president refused to turn over all the classified documents he had taken, even after being subpoenaed.

Yeah, I bet.

This is such a pathetic, desperate piece that it begged to be posted for posterity.

1 posted on 01/20/2023 5:51:35 AM PST by logi_cal869
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: logi_cal869
The whole thing sounds like Watergate. Worse than Watergate.

Worse than Watergate and the Civil War combined.

And the Great Flood.

2 posted on 01/20/2023 5:55:20 AM PST by Bernard (“the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." JFK 1-20-61)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: logi_cal869

Yes- its called a cover up


3 posted on 01/20/2023 6:00:33 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: logi_cal869

The Times is nothing but lies, fraud and snooty snobby snotty opinion.

A dismal rag supporting Communist genocide for 90 years.


4 posted on 01/20/2023 6:01:14 AM PST by Quentin Quarantino
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: logi_cal869

Because they are corrupt to the core and we no longer have inquisitive journalists.


5 posted on 01/20/2023 6:16:16 AM PST by 1Old Pro
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: logi_cal869

Story writing by committee. N’uff said.


6 posted on 01/20/2023 6:20:41 AM PST by blackdog (The head, hands, and heart, serve even further than the purse. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: logi_cal869

I suppose objective journalism is obsolete.

Circle those wagons boys . . .


7 posted on 01/20/2023 6:27:45 AM PST by MCSETots
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Bernard

Amen


8 posted on 01/20/2023 6:36:47 AM PST by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Bernard

It’s the new Big Bang.


9 posted on 01/20/2023 6:37:37 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: God luvs America

“Yes- its called a cover up”


It was. And these were stolen docs. There is no good explanation for these to be outside a secure location. They were stolen by a person who had access to them, who took the risk of jail time to remove them.

The big question not answered yet - what is in these documents that someone wanted so bad they risked going to prison for them?


10 posted on 01/20/2023 6:52:08 AM PST by Not_Who_U_Think
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: logi_cal869

Well given the stupid early and mail in voting windows it wouldn’t have made any difference. But they couldn’t help themselves.


11 posted on 01/20/2023 6:55:15 AM PST by 3RIVRS
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: logi_cal869
Biden accused of inadvertently storing classified documents.

Trump’s guilty of "hoarding of documents at his Florida estate".

Typical not-so-subtle NYT spin on the story. Hoarding is so much worse than storing. Plus, notice they mention the "Florida estate" to feed their class-envy hungry readers. No mention of the multi-million dollar Biden Estate, bought with Chinese and Ukrainian money. He's just good old Joe with a family home, not an "estate guy".

12 posted on 01/20/2023 6:59:28 AM PST by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: logi_cal869

So, basically they covered it up.
Isn’t that what got Nixon in trouble?🤔


13 posted on 01/20/2023 7:57:50 AM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: logi_cal869

Gotta be skeptical of that November 2 “discovery” date. I’d bet the docs were found BEFORE the August raid on Mar-a-Lago...and that the only reason for the raid was to blow it up so big that Biden’s boo-boo could be brushed off as minor “in comparison”.


14 posted on 01/20/2023 8:26:06 AM PST by LizzieD
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson