Special Counsel Probe of Biden’s Classified Documents Is Complete

WSJ ^ | 2/6/24 | Aruna Viswanatha, Sadie Gurman

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Kyle Becker
@kylenabecker
It gets crazier. Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report on Biden’s classified documents scandal GUTS the legal pretext for charging Donald Trump in the Mar-a-Lago case.

“The Constitution vests the president with ‘authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security.’ ... By executive order, presidents since Franklin Roosevelt have prescribed a system for classifying and safeguarding national security information.”

“In 1994, Congress directed the president to establish by executive order or regulation uniform procedures governing access to classified information across the executive branch. President Obama issued the current order when Mr. Biden was vice president. Among other things, the order sets forth rules that determine whether a person may access classified information and how that information must be handled.”

“The 1994 statute-and, by implication, the current executive order governing classified information-do not apply to a sitting president or vice president, members of Congress, justices of the Supreme Court, and federal judges. There is, however, no statutory exception for a former president OR vice president, and the restrictions on access to classified information in the executive order and the rules prescribed under its authority appear to apply to such former officials.”

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I believe the full report is here:

https://www.justice.gov/storage/report-from-special-counsel-robert-k-hur-february-2024.pdf

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Greg Price
@greg_price11
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According to Robert Hur’s report, Biden’s ghost writer deleted audio recordings after the special counsel was appointed.

Yet Hur declined to charge him with obstruction.

Reminder that two Mar-a-Lago employees were charged along with Trump for moving boxes of documents.