'WH keeps digging a hole deeper': Legal Twitter aghast at JoeBiden's documents saga
Earlier this week, it was revealed that a Biden lawyer flagged a stash of classified documents at a think tank stemming from his vice presidential days, then a flurry of stories surfaced about additional findings last December and even this week. His team had been quietly cooperating with the Justice Department for weeks, but legal experts on Twitter were largely baffled about the communications strategy.
— Andrew Weissmann 🌻 January 14, 2023 The White House first divulged the discovery of classified files at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, a foreign policy-focused think tank in Washington, this week in response to media reporting, but had been grappling with the matter since Nov. 2, 2022.
Accidentally possessing classified docs & then fully cooperating w/ DOJ upon discovery is NOT a crime. Intentionally stealing classified docs and then lying about having them as well as obstructing the inquiry is a crime that must be timely prosecuted. It’s hard for me to understand why Biden’s team didn’t thoroughly search every location back in November, when this issue first arose. https://t.co/VdYzt6GAkd
If you discover you or your staff have inadvertently retained classified docs, this is indeed the way to handle situation to avoid criminal liability.Immediately conduct exhaustive search.— Ryan Goodman January 12, 2023 Lawyer Jonathan Turley, of George Washington University and perennial guest on Fox News, scoffed at Biden's"inadvertence" defense, in which Biden has argued he did not intentionally hoard the documents.
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