House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) gave a mixed assessment of former special counsel Robert Hur and his testimony to Congress after he rejected a recommendation to indict President Biden over classified information. Indicated.
Comer acknowledged some of Xu’s accomplishments in his report Tuesday, but added that there were too many questions about Biden’s actions over the decades regarding his handling of classified documents.
“We’re going to continue to try to get answers so we can actually hold people accountable,” Comer said on “Hannity.”
“What we saw today is an entitled career politician who believes he is above the law, and a government that has always turned a blind eye to protect Joe Biden. I saw it,” he said.
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Comer said as host Sean Hannity reported that some of the president’s documents date back to his career in the Senate, when he was not allowed to handle some of the documents outside of a secure SCIF facility. , pointed out a clear difference from the way Biden handles classified information.
The congressman said much of former President Trump’s classified information was kept in a locked area on Mar-a-Lago grounds, while Hur’s report said Biden’s classified information It noted that the findings were distributed at the University of Delaware and the Penn Biden Center in Washington. , and the President’s Garage in Greenville, Delaware.
“These documents that Joe Biden had were not behind locked doors. When I asked Mr. Hoar about that, he said in his testimony that they were all over the place. “We do not know who had access to those documents.”
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Meanwhile, Jim Jordan (Ohio), the other Republican chairman leading Tuesday’s hearing, discussed how determining motive is often key in cases of unlawful retention of classified information. .
Jordan mentioned Mark Zwonitzer, who worked on Biden’s book, saying, “He disclosed classified documents to individuals who did not have security clearances, but he did not serve as a ghostwriter for Joe Biden’s book. “He had part of the $8 million contract.” Memoir “Dad, Promise Me.”
“You always think about motive. When there was illegal activity, what was the motive? And Mr. Herr, the special counsel, was clear. The motive was the book,” Jordan continued.
He cited Biden’s decades in office as evidence that he “knew the rules” when it came to sharing classified information and ensuring security.
“…But he knowingly and willfully violated those provisions because he was writing a book,” Jordan said.
Jordan pointed to another alleged double standard in favor of entrenched politicians, with three previous major presidential candidates, Biden, Hillary Clinton and Trump, all under investigation for mishandling classified documents. However, he pointed out that only the latter had been indicted.
Jordan said Trump’s prosecution is even more egregious given that it is led by Jack Smith, who has shown a penchant for relentlessly going after Republicans. Smith previously prosecuted former Virginia Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell in the early 2010s.
McDonnell previously told Fox News that his three-year investigation was “hurtful” and that he knows the law is on his side as the Supreme Court unanimously vacated Smith’s conviction. he said.
