{"id":2048176,"date":"2023-09-28T14:52:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T18:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-media-downplayed-bidens-classified-documents-scandal-its-now-the-subject-of-a-sprawling-probe\/"},"modified":"2023-09-28T14:54:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T18:54:36","slug":"the-media-downplayed-bidens-classified-documents-scandal-its-now-the-subject-of-a-sprawling-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-media-downplayed-bidens-classified-documents-scandal-its-now-the-subject-of-a-sprawling-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Media downplayed Biden&#8217;s classified documents scandal; now under &#8216;sprawling&#8217; investigation."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-media-downplayed-bidens-classified-documents-scandal-its-now-the-subject-of-a-sprawling-probe%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2048176&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Expanding Investigation into President Biden&#8217;s \u200bAlleged Mishandling of Classified Documents<\/h2>\n<p>The federal probe of President Joe \u200bBiden&#8217;s alleged mishandling of classified documents \u2062from his \u200ctime as vice president has grown into a sprawling examination of\u2063 Obama-era security protocols, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/secretaries-secretary-state-biden-documents-probe-casts-wide\/story?id=103504213\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Federal \u200bagents have spent nine \u200cmonths investigating \u200dwhether Biden illegally stored\u200b classified\u200c documents in his personal residence in Wilmington, Delaware, and\u2064 his office at\u2063 the\u2063 Penn Biden Center at the University\u2064 of Pennsylvania. The probe has included interviews with at least 100\u200d witnesses, including Secretary\u200d of State Antony Blinken, as\u200b reported by ABC.<\/p>\n<p>This\u2064 investigation is a far cry from what \u200dthe \u2062media initially predicted when news of the \u2063classified \u200bdocuments broke\u200b in January 2023. The\u200b press quickly dismissed\u200c the incident, \u2062compared it favorably to former\u200d president Donald Trump&#8217;s own document scandal, and accused\u200b Republicans of &#8220;pouncing&#8221; on a non-story.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For the second straight week, President\u200d Biden is facing \u2064scrutiny over his handling of \u200bclassified documents from his \u2064days as vice president, and \u2063Republicans were quick to \u2062pounce after\u200c more papers \u2064were found&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Weijia\u200c Jiang, Senior White House Correspondent,\u2062 CBS News: &#8220;And so\u2063 I think this is\u2063 a pain for them \u2064right now, but if you talk to officials, they say the American people do not care about\u200b this. So, I think they are just really trying to turn the page as quickly as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Biden documents affair is another frustrating, unforced error just as the president\u2019s approval ratings are starting to inch upward and ahead of an expected reelection\u200c announcement&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Legally, the differences between the cases of\u2064 former\u2064 President Donald Trump and\u2064 sitting President Joe Biden are dramatically different. Politically, those differences may \u200bnot\u2063 matter at all and may affect both the investigation\u200b into whether Trump mishandled documents and Biden&#8217;s ability to use the issue against Trump in a\u200b hypothetical \u20632024 rematch.<\/p>\n<p>Since the\u200c Biden administration acknowledged\u2014only after the story was unearthed by CBS\u2014that government documents had been\u200c found in a locked closet at an office at the Penn Biden Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Republicans \u2064have pounced on the issue&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Zoom out: While House Republicans have a slim majority, their subpoena power gives them leeway to launch a battery of investigations\u2014and not investigate \u2063other matters.<\/p>\n<p>Comer said Sunday that the House Oversight \u2062and Accountability Committee, which he chairs, will not investigate former President Trump\u200c over his handling of classified\u2063 documents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t\u2064 feel like we need to spend\u2062 a whole lot \u200bof time investigating President Trump because the Democrats have done that for the \u2062past \u2064six years,&#8221; Comer said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Republicans seized on revelations \u2063that several classified \u2063documents from Joe Biden\u2019s time as vice president were \u200cfound in his former private\u2063 office to create cover for former President\u200b Donald Trump\u2019s hoarding of secret records&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The new controversy so far appears to be on a\u200b smaller scale than the more than 100 classified documents \u2013 some bearing the highest designations of government\u200c secrecy \u2013 taken from \u2063Trump\u2019s resort at \u2062Mar-a-Lago after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ag-merrick-garland-says-he-personally-approved-fbis-trump-raid\/\" title=\"AG Merrick Garland Says He \u2018Personally Approved\u2019 FBI\u2019s Trump Raid\">court-approved search<\/a> by FBI agents&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Fairness and\u200b respect for the\u2063 law dictate \u2062that Biden should answer many of the same questions that Trump\u200b is facing, regarding whether he\u200d was entitled to the records, why they were \u2063not previously \u2062turned over, \u200cwhether they were securely stored and how they\u200d ended up in his office in the\u2063 first \u2063place&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The discovery of classified documents among Biden&#8217;s papers is a\u2063 bad look \u2064for\u2063 the president, but the circumstances of the find \u200care much different from those \u2062of the Trump case&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The discovery of classified documents among President Joe Biden&#8217;s vice presidential papers in\u200c a Washington office has led to yowls by some Republicans who\u200b say there is an \u2063unfair double \u2064standard being \u200capplied to Donald Trump&#8217;s stash of classified documents\u2014but the circumstances of the finds\u200c are very different.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>The media&#8217;s coverage of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-media-downplayed-bidens-classified-documents-scandal-its-now-the-subject-of-a-sprawling-probe\/\" title=\"Media downplayed Biden's classified documents scandal; now under 'sprawling' investigation.\">classified document story focused largely<\/a> on how \u2062&#8221;surprised&#8221; Biden and\u2063 Blinken\u200b were\u2063 to hear the \u2063news:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/live-news\/garland-attorney-general-statement-01-12-23\/h_a20474cd171020f3ec5192001e9fc1ab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>: &#8220;Blinken &#8216;Surprised&#8217; to Learn About Discovery of \u2064Classified Documents, State Department Spokesperson\u2063 Says&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/biden-we-are-cooperating-with-review-classified-documents-2023-01-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a>: &#8220;Biden &#8216;Surprised&#8217; About Finding of Classified Documents, Vows Cooperation&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2023\/01\/10\/biden-classified-records-surprised\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Post<\/a><\/em>: &#8220;Biden \u2018Surprised\u2019 By Classified Documents \u2064as\u200c Hill Demands More Information&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/biden-comments-documents-classified-north-american-leaders-summit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS News<\/a>: &#8220;Biden Says He Was &#8216;Surprised&#8217; Classified Documents Were Found at \u200cPenn \u200dBiden Center Office&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Perhaps it&#8217;s time \u200cto update the various timelines\u200b the \u2062media compiled after the news broke, which have laid dormant for months:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/a-timeline-of-the-discovery-and-disclosure-of-classified-records-tied-to-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PBS<\/a>: &#8220;A Timeline\u2064 of\u200c the Discovery and Disclosure of Classified Records\u200d Tied to Biden.&#8221; <strong>Last updated February 2<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/biden-classified-documents-found-timeline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS News<\/a>: &#8220;The Timeline of Events Surrounding \u2062the\u200d Discovery of Documents at\u200c Biden&#8217;s Former Office and Residence.&#8221; <strong>Last updated \u200dFebruary 1<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/12\/us\/politics\/biden-documents-timeline.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>: &#8220;Timeline of the Biden Documents Case:\u2064 What We Know So \u2062Far.&#8221; <strong>Last updated January 21<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6247483\/biden-classified-documents-timeline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>TIME<\/em><\/a>: &#8220;Biden\u2019s Classified Documents: A Timeline of What We \u200cKnow So Far.&#8221; \u2063 <strong>Last updated January 14<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How should President Biden and his administration cooperate with the investigation \u2064into the mishandling of \u200bclassified documents \u2062to restore trust and integrity in government operations?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Son\u2063 Ned \u200dPrice Says&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/01\/12\/biden-classified-documents-526846\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a>: &#8220;Biden Surprised by \u2062Findings of Classified Documents \u2063in His Private Office&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/white-house\/biden-world-reacts-after-revelation-classified-documents-found-rcna19722\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBC News<\/a>: &#8220;Biden, Blinken, Reeling\u2063 After Classified Documents Found in Office&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, the surprise expressed by \u200dBiden and Blinken is not enough\u200c to alleviate concerns over the potential mishandling of classified materials. The fact that government documents were discovered in a\u2064 locked \u2063closet at an office raises questions about\u200c the security protocols in place during Biden&#8217;s tenure as vice president.<\/p>\n<p>It is imperative to treat this investigation\u2064 seriously and not dismiss it as a mere political maneuver. Regardless of \u200dpolitical\u200d affiliations, the mishandling of classified documents is a grave matter that \u200cthreatens national \u200csecurity. The American people deserve transparency and accountability from their leaders when it comes to \u200cprotecting sensitive information.<\/p>\n<p>The comparison between Biden&#8217;s alleged mishandling of classified documents and Trump&#8217;s own document scandal\u2064 is irrelevant from a legal\u200c standpoint. Each case should be evaluated on its own merits, without \u200dbeing clouded by political biases. The focus should be\u2063 on upholding the law \u2063and\u2063 ensuring that those who handle classified information do so responsibly.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into Biden&#8217;s actions should not be seen as an attempt to divert attention \u2064or hinder his potential 2024 reelection campaign. It is a legitimate concern that warrants a thorough examination. The American people have a \u200cright to know the truth about any\u2064 mishandling\u2064 of \u200bclassified information and whether proper security protocols\u2064 were \u2062followed.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery of classified documents among Biden&#8217;s papers may not be on \u2063the same scale as the Trump case, but it should \u200bnot be dismissed as insignificant. The circumstances surrounding the find raise important questions about the handling and storage of sensitive government records. These questions demand answers and appropriate actions to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-gif-tiff-sparks-mandatory-anti-racism-training-at-cornell\/\" title=\"Kamala GIF Tiff Sparks Mandatory \u2018Anti-Racism\u2019 Training at Cornell\">prevent similar incidents<\/a> in the future.<\/p>\n<p>In order to restore trust\u2064 and ensure\u200c the integrity of government operations, it is crucial for President Biden and his administration to fully cooperate with the \u2062investigation. Transparency, accountability, and adherence to established security protocols are paramount \u200din protecting classified information and maintaining the trust of the American people.<\/p>\n<p>The media&#8217;s coverage of the classified document story is a reminder of the influence and responsibility they hold in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/walt-disney-teamed-up-with-john-wayne-ronald-reagan-to-take-on-communists-in-hollywood\/\" title=\"Walt Disney joined forces with John Wayne and Ronald Reagan to combat Communism in Hollywood.\">shaping\u2064 public opinion<\/a>. As journalists, it is their duty to provide unbiased and \u200bcomprehensive coverage of important events, regardless of political affiliations. The focus should remain \u2062on the facts and the implications for national security, rather than on political narratives.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, the expanding investigation into President Biden&#8217;s alleged mishandling of classified documents is a matter that should be\u2063 taken seriously. It is not a political ploy,\u200c but a legitimate concern for national security. The\u2064 American people deserve transparency, accountability,\u200b and adherence to established security protocols. It is imperative that\u2062 the investigation is conducted impartially and without political bias, in order to ensure the trust and confidence\u200b of \u200dthe American \u200bpeople in their government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal investigation into President Joe Biden&#8217;s alleged mishandling of classified documents has expanded to include an examination of security protocols during the Obama era. Agents have spent nine months probing whether Biden unlawfully stored classified documents in his personal residence in Delaware and his office. 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