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    Attorney General Merrick Garland has assigned the U.S. attorney in Chicago to review documents marked classified that were found at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington, two sources with knowledge of the inquiry told CBS News. The roughly 10 documents are from President Biden's vice-presidential office at the center, the sources said. CBS News has learned the FBI is also involved in the U.S. attorney's inquiry.

    The material was identified by personal attorneys for Mr. Biden on Nov. 2, just before the midterm elections, Richard Sauber, special counsel to the president confirmed. The documents were discovered when Mr. Biden's personal attorneys "were packing files housed in a locked closet to prepare to vacate office space at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C.," Sauber said in a statement to CBS News. The documents were contained in a folder that was in a box with other unclassified papers, the sources said. The sources revealed neither what the documents contain nor their level of classification. A source familiar with the matter told CBS News the documents did not contain nuclear secrets.


    ...The White House statement said that it “is cooperating” with the department but did not explain why Mr. Biden’s team waited more than two months to announce the discovery of the documents, which came a week before the midterm congressional elections when the news would have been an explosive last-minute development.

    It also came shortly before Mr. Garland’s Nov. 18 appointment of Jack Smith as a special counsel to take over the criminal investigation into Mr. Trump’s failure to return a large number of classified documents that were sent to his Florida residence and club, Mar-a-Lago, when he left office — even after being subpoenaed.


    A government watchdog is demanding the US attorney probing Hunter Biden in Delaware investigate tens of millions in anonymous donations from China to the University of Pennsylvania, where an academic center is named for his father, President Biden.

    The Ivy League college raked in a total of $54.6 million from 2014 through June 2019 in donations from China, including $23.1 million in anonymous gifts starting in 2016, according to public records.

    Most of the anonymous donations came after the university announced in February 2017 that it would create the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement. Joe Biden, whose term as vice president had just ended, was to lead the center and was also named a professor at the university.

    The center, which is located in Washington, DC, opened its doors in February 2018. Antony Blinken, whom Biden named as secretary of state, briefly served as its managing director.

    The Ivy League university received $15.8 million in anonymous Chinese gifts that year, including one eye-popping $14.5 million donation in May 2018, records show.

     
    I think you are paranoid due to some examples from old administrations. Also some of that stuff you cited is just wacky conspiracy theories. Nevertheless, ideologues do and always will exist in the FBI, and they tend to be right wing idealogues, but with that said, I think the FBI is a far more professional organization than any investigative group setup by House Republicans. The FBI still needs oversight, and they still commit some underhanded stuff, like Comey announcing the Hillary investigation and not the Trump investigation, but by and large they are trustworthy.
    Cointelpro makes me some wacky, paranoid conspiracy theorist? MK-Ultra? Do you know what the fork Hoover and his henchmen did for nearly a decade? I won't be your personal historian for this, you need to seriously do some research on that stain in our nation's history? The things that occurred and happened under the aegis of Cointelpro and MK-Ultra are verified, historical facts, they did occur and they were highly aggregrious, some might argue they were human rights violations or war crimes? I'm not paranoid because I mention things from other admininistrations, I'm making you acknowledge the table exists and a lot of dirty shirt they committed is still lying on the table and some of these presidential administrations were run by liberal Democrats, like JFK and LBJ.

    Oh, and btw, what do you call Wikileaks and the global outrage it caused when it was discovered our government was eavesdropping, tapping phones and spying on politicians in other countries like UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain? That occurred less then a decade ago, not 50-60 years ago to make it irrevalent to you.
     
    Cointelpro makes me some wacky, paranoid conspiracy theorist? MK-Ultra? Do you know what the fork Hoover and his henchmen did for nearly a decade? I won't be your personal historian for this, you need to seriously do some research on that stain in our nation's history? The things that occurred and happened under the aegis of Cointelpro and MK-Ultra are verified, historical facts, they did occur and they were highly aggregrious, some might argue they were human rights violations or war crimes? I'm not paranoid because I mention things from other admininistrations, I'm making you acknowledge the table exists and a lot of dirty shirt they committed is still lying on the table and some of these presidential administrations were run by liberal Democrats, like JFK and LBJ.

    Oh, and btw, what do you call Wikileaks and the global outrage it caused when it was discovered our government was eavesdropping, tapping phones and spying on politicians in other countries like UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain? That occurred less then a decade ago, not 50-60 years ago to make it irrevalent to you.

    Just wanted to clarify, that it was Snowden, not Wikileaks that gave us the info about the government spying.

    Wikileaks was not involved at all, Snowden leaked that info to the media. Assange shouldn't get credit for that.
     
    Just wanted to clarify, that it was Snowden, not Wikileaks that gave us the info about the government spying.

    Wikileaks was not involved at all, Snowden leaked that info to the media. Assange shouldn't get credit for that.
    Then, Snowden high-tailed it out of the USA into exile, first to China, then Russia for nearly a decade now, that he's become Putin's propoganda birch now.
     
    Cointelpro makes me some wacky, paranoid conspiracy theorist? MK-Ultra? Do you know what the fork Hoover and his henchmen did for nearly a decade? I won't be your personal historian for this, you need to seriously do some research on that stain in our nation's history? The things that occurred and happened under the aegis of Cointelpro and MK-Ultra are verified, historical facts, they did occur and they were highly aggregrious, some might argue they were human rights violations or war crimes? I'm not paranoid because I mention things from other admininistrations, I'm making you acknowledge the table exists and a lot of dirty shirt they committed is still lying on the table and some of these presidential administrations were run by liberal Democrats, like JFK and LBJ.

    Oh, and btw, what do you call Wikileaks and the global outrage it caused when it was discovered our government was eavesdropping, tapping phones and spying on politicians in other countries like UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain? That occurred less then a decade ago, not 50-60 years ago to make it irrevalent to you.
    The German and Japanese governments did horrific things in the 1940s! That doesn't make them horrific today. Most U.S. government officials were doing horrific things throughout the early 20th century. Going back 50 years to prove how bad the FBI is makes no sense. The FBI of today is no more representative of the FBI of the 1950s than the Republican party of the 1950s is of today's Republican party. Past transgressions lead to changes to these organizations, so those transgressions are usually not a good basis to expect those same transgressions. For example, the Tuskegee experiment is the irrational reason given by many black people for not trusting the vaccine, as though there isn't far more transparency and evidence that the vaccine was beneficial. That led to a lot of irrational paranoia. There may be transgressions occurring, but they're probably not where you think they are.
     
    The German and Japanese governments did horrific things in the 1940s! That doesn't make them horrific today. Most U.S. government officials were doing horrific things throughout the early 20th century. Going back 50 years to prove how bad the FBI is makes no sense. The FBI of today is no more representative of the FBI of the 1950s than the Republican party of the 1950s is of today's Republican party. Past transgressions lead to changes to these organizations, so those transgressions are usually not a good basis to expect those same transgressions. For example, the Tuskegee experiment is the irrational reason given by many black people for not trusting the vaccine, as though there isn't far more transparency and evidence that the vaccine was beneficial. That led to a lot of irrational paranoia. There may be transgressions occurring, but they're probably not where you think they are.
    This rationale is why I always cringe and laugh at the GOP...

    "We're the party of Lincoln!!!"

    No, you're not. You're not even close.
     
    He may have caused some peril, but probably far less than Trump, because Trump was much more cavalier about secrets in general.

    Come on, man. That’s not fair. What did Trump ever do that was “cavalier” with our secrets?

    Oh…and on a totally unrelated note:
     
    Come on, man. That’s not fair. What did Trump ever do that was “cavalier” with our secrets?

    Oh…and on a totally unrelated note:
    The most obvious example of his cavalier attitude is when he gave out Israeli intel to the Russians, but the attached captures many others:

     
    Sure not getting better for him yet

    Officials from the Justice Department recovered additional classified items Friday after searching the Wilmington, Del., home of President Joe Biden for nearly 13 hours, the president’s personal lawyer said Saturday.

    The items recovered include six batches of records that contained an unspecified number of documents with classified markings.

    The search began around 9:45 a.m. and concluded at 10:30 p.m. and covered all working, living and storage spaces in the home, said Bob Bauer, Biden’s personal attorney. Representatives of both Biden’s personal legal team and the White House Counsel’s Office were present for the search.

    Bauer said the paperwork was from Biden’s time in the Senate and as vice president. Justice Department officials also took handwritten notes from the vice presidential years, he said.

    “DOJ had full access to the president’s home, including personally handwritten notes, files, papers, binders, memorabilia, to-do lists, schedules, and reminders going back decades,” he said.
     
    still no comparison to what Trump did. It’s just not the same.
     
    still no comparison to what Trump did. It’s just not the same.

    It's not. It just seems that Biden has been careless, but they need to keep looking into it.

    Hunter was a huge security risk, and with classified documents being handled so carelessly, it's not out of the realm of possibility that we end up with something much worse.

    None of us should be arguing that Hunter Biden at the height of his crack binge was above trying to peddle classified documents.
     
    Yeah, Biden saying he had "no regrets" was quite arrogant and stupid.

    Former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) criticized the Biden administration over its handling of classified documents being discovered from the president’s time as vice president and the revelation that some materials dated back to his time as a senator.
    ...

    “The reality is, it’s not been handled well up to this point. And they need a course correction,” Heitcamp said on ABC’s “This Week.”

    “The worst thing the President could have said was ‘there’s no there there, I have no regrets,'” Heitcamp said.

    “The easy answer was ‘Look, this obviously is something that should not have happened. I should not have had classified documents in my possession at at various levels. We’re going to get to the bottom of this, but I in no way did this intentionally,'” she suggested.
     
    Yeah, Biden saying he had "no regrets" was quite arrogant and stupid.

    That's the wrong interpretation from biden. He has no regrets how his lawyers handled this.

    "I think you're gonna find there's nothing there," Biden told reporters as he toured storm damage in California. "I have no regrets. I'm following what the lawyers have told me they want me to do. It's exactly what we're doing. There's no there there."
     
    That's the wrong interpretation from biden. He has no regrets how his lawyers handled this.

    I'll have to rewatch the video but it comes off different on paper than what I remember seeing. Pretty sure there was a pause or something between the no regrets and the lawyers comment that kind of made it appear as two distinct thoughts.
     


    Yeah doesn't come off to me that he's referencing the lawyers there, comes off to me as if he's saying he has no regrets about it period.
     
    He's answering to the Q finding the docs....and the context is about handling it in regards to his lawyers...all layered around the no regrets.
     
    He's answering to the Q finding the docs....and the context is about handling it in regards to his lawyers...all layered around the no regrets.
    Fair enough.. I'll just say I believe he should have been more clear in his language and delivery there and directly said "I have no regrets about the way my lawyers are handling this" rather than the way he phrased it all. In my opinion he left it open to some interpretation.
     
    Fair enough.. I'll just say he should have been more clear in his language there and directly said "I have no regrets about the way my lawyers are handling this" rather than the way he phrased it all. In my opinion he left it open to some interpretation.
    which is why fox news are running w/ it. But the context is clear to me.
     

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