Hur Report – Biden Kept Classified Materials For Years

It seems that all the focus around Hur’s report was about the Biden’s memory.

But there’s more to the report than that.

This information deals with the fact that Biden had kept classified materials for years at his residence and didn’t return them.

Media: "Ignore Biden & focus in Trump's persecution on bogus charges."

"It took several days, but NBC News' Ken Dilanian reported today — on a weekend — that Robert Hur actually had a case against Joe Biden for felony violations of 18 USC 793."https://t.co/NUfxWgk9mK

— Smitty's Corner 🇺🇸 🇮🇱🗽 (@SmittysView) February 18, 2024

This looks familar.

The Biden Administration were so concerned that Trump had documents that he was allowed to have but if Biden has classified materials, well, um, you know, he uh, no further questions at this time.

The controversy over special counsel Robert Hur’s characterization of President Biden’s memory has obscured one of the most surprising findings in his report – that Biden knowingly kept classified materials at home for years and failed to turn them in. https://t.co/HXTmBjUrge

— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 17, 2024

NBC News reports:

The controversy over special counsel Robert Hur’s characterization of President Joe Biden’s memory has obscured one of the most surprising findings in his report: evidence that Biden knowingly kept classified materials at home for years and failed to turn them in.

After a yearlong investigation, Hur found that the evidence of “willful retention” — the language in the criminal statute — wasn’t strong enough to justify a prosecution. And he explained in detail why the criminal charges against former President Donald Trump for his handling of classified materials include far more serious allegations of misconduct than Biden’s case.

To Democrats, Hur’s finding that there was no criminal case to bring against the president is the most important takeaway.

But to some national security experts, the disclosure that Biden told his ghostwriter that he discovered classified documents in his Virginia home in 2017 — with no indication he returned them — was unexpected and troubling. So was the revelation that Biden disclosed classified information to the ghostwriter on at least three occasions, and that he stored notebooks full of state secrets in unlocked drawers in his home office.

They said a senior government official like Biden should be held to a higher ethical standard than whether a jury would convict him of a felony.

“It may not be criminal, but it’s reckless and awful, because you have no idea what sources and methods you are putting at risk,” said NBC News legal contributor and former federal prosecutor Chuck Rosenberg. “Someone who served as the vice president of the United States should know better.”

Sams also noted that the Hur report says prosecutors could not establish that Biden knew information was classified when he shared it with his ghostwriter.

Attorney Mark Zaid, who specializes in cases involving classified information, said Hur’s findings were “worse than I expected by way of the president’s conduct over the years. But even then, none of it surprised me.”

“His conduct was emblematic of what we see with former senior government officials all the time,” Zaid added. “It sends a horrible message to the workforce that our senior leadership is not held to account for its mishandling of classified information.”

Zaid said a typical client who did what Biden had done probably wouldn’t be prosecuted, but “they would have faced loss of federal employment and/or their security clearance without a doubt.”

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