FBI Provides Ridiculous Excuse for Not Overseeing Biden Document Search

THe sickening, prodemocratic double standards at
Justice Department
And
FBI
Continue in full force

The Justice Department’s decision Not To have FBI agents and other federal officials present
President Joe Biden
’s personal lawyers searched for more classified documents is compelling evidence, yet again, of two-tiered law enforcement. The department’s excuses, meanwhile, are farcical.

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“Mr. Biden’s legal team … discussed with the Justice Department the prospect of having FBI agents present while Mr. Biden’s lawyers conducted the additional searches,” According to the Wall Street Journal.

Bizarrely, the Justice Department declined, instead deciding that because Biden’s team appeared to be cooperating, it would rely on that team to conduct the expanded search unsupervised. According to law enforcement officials, the Wall Street Journal That “one reason not to involve the FBI at an early stage: That way the Justice Department would preserve the ability to take a tougher line, including executing a future search warrant, if negotiations ever turned hostile.”

This is absurd. Top legal analyst and professor Jonathan Turley tweeted that this “is a
level of accommodation that would make a Kardashian blush
.”

Andrew McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor of high rank who is now an analyst National Review Fox News host, and he is well-known for his fairness in applying procedural norms to all parties of the political spectrum. He also agrees that the explanation is absurd.

“It is on its face preposterous that introducing the FBI at an early stage would preclude getting tougher — resorting to a search warrant, for example — down the road,” He told me. “Not only is that common sense; we know it from experience: The Justice Department sent FBI agents along with a DOJ official to Mar-a-Lago in early June 2022 to retrieve documents with classification markings. That in no way prevented the Justice Department from ‘taking a tougher line’ by executing a search warrant two months later.”

Yes, it is good that Biden has his lawyers. It seems To be so
much more cooperative with federal authorities than former President Donald Trump was
. Trump’s representatives repeatedly and dishonestly reported that all documents had been turned over, even as Trump reportedly directed numerous documents to be moved and hidden. Still, that’s no excuse for just “trusting” Biden’s representatives to do the right thing. The Justice Department should take additional steps to ensure that documents of highly classified nature are properly handled. This has been the case for six years. As the search for the missing documents resumed, FBI agents and top officials from other departments with security clearance ought to have been present.

The department should have felt twice compelled by national security and law to oversee the activities. and, Not least, the need for public confidence.

Already,
as McCarthy has noted at length
Trump’s security breaches and those of Hillary Clinton were handled by the Justice Department in highly divergent ways. Clinton was treated with kid gloves, while Trump is being prosecuted. The department must move to a new position. “trust now, and blithely hope we can verify later” is yet another example of giving top Democrats a benefit of doubt that Republicans don’t enjoy.

The Clinton-Biden Trump imbroglios, however, are not isolated instances of extreme Justice Department bias and FBI bias favoring the political Left. Both in small and large ways, as well as internal FBI audits.
itself reported
The bureau is now a
cesspool
Of bias and
abuse
. Anytime it seems to treat liberals with more respect than conservatives, it leads to a growing distrust in the U.S. legal system as well as the whole structure of U.S. government law enforcement.

Biden’s mishandling of government records such as those of Trump, Hillary Clinton and others is a serious violation of norms and, most likely, of national security. The nation must consider the consequences and not have to worry about the possibility of inequal justice.

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