Jonathan Turley Says Biden’s Lawyers Are “Likely Witnesses in a Criminal Investigation”
FIRST ON FOX Jonathan Turley, a professor of law at George Washington University (GWU), states that President Joe Biden’s Lawyers “likely witnesses in a criminal investigation” The probe into Biden’s handling of classified information continues.
Two stashes classified documents from Biden’s time as vice president were found in the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C., as well as at the president’s Wilmington, Delaware, house in the garage by his Corvette, spiraling the White House into an ongoing scandal after five more classified documents were discovered at his Wilmington home over the weekend.
Turley said that Fox News Digital had informed him that we “do not know what the evidence will show” That’s the best part! “most serious discovery would be evidence that Biden worked off their documents or removed them from their classification folders.”
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley warned that President Biden’s lawyers are “likely witnesses in a criminal investigation” GarageGate continues its development.
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“That would not only destroy the ‘inadvertence’ defense but make his public comments potentially deceitful of both the public and investigators,” Turley said. “While gross mishandling does not require evil intent, unintentional violations are often addressed outside of the criminal justice system. The most serious violations have been prosecuted where material was intentionally removed.”
“Intent can be established not only at the time of the removal but during the storage of the documents.” He went on. “If these documents were used or knowingly possessed over the six years, it would qualify as an intentional act to unlawfully possess the material.”
Biden faces a special counsel investigation regarding his handling of classified documents. At least two stashes were discovered at Biden’s Wilmington home, as well as a pro-Biden thinktank in Washington, D.C.
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Turley said that the “use of private counsel without clearances following the first discovery on Nov. 2 could itself be viewed as reckless and gross mishandling.”
“Moreover, those lawyers are now likely witnesses in a criminal investigation,” Turley stated.
Fox News Digital was informed by Richard Painter (a University of Minnesota law professor), that the “White House needs to cooperate fully with this investigation, which involves helping the special counsel find out how the documents got to the Penn Biden Center and to his home and who knew they were there (if anybody), as well as cooperating with a DOJ or intel assessment of who may have access to the documents.”
“This is particularly a concern with respect to the Penn-Biden center where the Penn president raised tens of millions from the Chinese, and many people (including Penn donors) had access to the center and must have had a chance to look in Biden’s office and notice the locked closet, raising curiosity about what was inside and perhaps a desire to find out,” Painter.
Painter was an ex-White House ethics chief for President George W. Bush. He then switched parties to mount a failed bid for Senate in 2018 as a Democrat.
Capitol Hill Republicans demanded visitor logs after revelations by Biden’s lawyers that five additional classified documents were found in his garage. Although it is standard practice to keep detailed visitor logs at The White House, Biden’s lawyers claim that no such records are available for his Wilmington home.
Two stashes of classified documents from Biden’s time as vice president were found in the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C., as well as the president’s garage by his Corvette last week, spiraling the White House into a compounding scandal.
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“Like every President in decades of modern history, his personal residence is personal,” Fox News Digital received a statement from the White House Counsel’s Office on Monday. “But upon taking office, President Biden restored the norm and tradition of keeping White House visitors logs, including publishing them regularly, after the previous administration ended them.”
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Sunday’s Secret Service report indicated that visitors are not recorded by them, even though a detail has been assigned to their home.
Fox News Digital’s Anders Hagstrom and Peter Doocy contributed reporting.
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