Not exactly the Penn-tagon Papers

Created
Fri, 13/01/2023 - 01:00
Updated
Fri, 13/01/2023 - 01:00
“It’s not even clear that the documents had been in Biden’s possession” The GOP is beside itself over news that some classified documents were found in November among papers stored at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington, D.C. by Biden’s own attorneys. Isn’t this just what prompted the FBI to investigate Donald Trump, they demand? Where’s the outrage? Where are the jackbooted thugs? Where’s Attorney General Merrick Garland’s investigation? Twitter quipster Jeff Tiedrich put the affair in context, tweeting, “weird how Joe Biden found classified documents and voluntarily returned them without claiming he magically declassified them, or saying the FBI planted them, or lying about having already returned them, or needing to have his shitty golf motel searched. what game is Biden playing”? Indeed, reports indicate the White House notified authorities immediately and the National Archives retrieved the Penn documents the next day. Clearly, the papers surfacing is unwelcome news for the Biden administration. As is news that a search turned up a second batch this week. It is also a complicating factor for special counsel Jack Smith who is already investigating the Trump/Mar-a-Lago hoard. But so far the new documents appear more of a political than a legal stumblingblock for Smith. Trump claimed his purloined documents as his own and fought the government’s efforts to reclaim them. Smith is investigating Trump and his lawyers for obstruction. Washington Post: “This is under review by the Department of Justice. I’m not going to go beyond what the president…