Now, the distinctions may be harder for Biden allies to draw, given that Hur wrote that there was evidence Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified material after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.”
The report mentions an instance in February 2017, when he was no longer vice president, when Biden read notes containing classified information “nearly verbatim” to a ghostwriter helping him with his book, “Promise Me, Dad.”
Storage of sensitive government secrets was haphazard. The report describes certain classified records involving the war in Afghanistan in Biden’s Delaware garage inside a “badly damaged box surrounded by household detritus.”
It’s bad when Biden does it.
It’s bad when trump does it.
Why can’t we have an option that doesn’t do this shit?
You should read the parts about why he decided not to recommend prosecution, which includes not being able to show Biden knew the documents were classified. Biden found classified documents in his office, alerted the government, and cooperated fully with the resulting investigation. To imply in any way that there any comparison to what Trump did is pretty disingenuous.
And so did Mike pence, lest we all forget that he was part of this too. IIRC, most of the documents were things like daily agendas that were classified bc of the identities of participants at meetings. Not, say, nuclear secrets…
The government also over classifies everything. I wouldn’t be surprised if 99% of the classified stuff in both cases wasn’t actually important. It seems like Trump tried to take some important things, but we’ll never know how much.
Treating everything as classified that these top officials see leads to poor practices.
It’s bad when Biden does it.
It’s bad when trump does it.
Why can’t we have an option that doesn’t do this shit?
You should read the parts about why he decided not to recommend prosecution, which includes not being able to show Biden knew the documents were classified. Biden found classified documents in his office, alerted the government, and cooperated fully with the resulting investigation. To imply in any way that there any comparison to what Trump did is pretty disingenuous.
And so did Mike pence, lest we all forget that he was part of this too. IIRC, most of the documents were things like daily agendas that were classified bc of the identities of participants at meetings. Not, say, nuclear secrets…
The government also over classifies everything. I wouldn’t be surprised if 99% of the classified stuff in both cases wasn’t actually important. It seems like Trump tried to take some important things, but we’ll never know how much.
Treating everything as classified that these top officials see leads to poor practices.
Sounds like someone has never held a security clearance but still has opinions…