by John Sexton
Special Counsel Robert Hur is expected to testify before congress tomorrow, the first time he will have spoken publicly since the release of his report. In anticipation of that moment, the Washington Post published a lengthy story about tensions between the White House and the Justice Department. The gist of the article is simple. The White House is angry about the Hur report’s discussion of Joe Biden’s poor memory and also about the ongoing investigation of Hunter Biden. Naturally all of these complaints come from unnamed White House sources. It doesn’t matter, because they are offering the same tired talking points you’ve heard many times before.
What I found far more interesting was the list of ways in which the White House had tried and failed to change the report before it was made public. When the White House first got the finished reported they asked Hur to remove references to Biden’s memory. Hur refused:
When Hur finished his 345-page report, he first sent it to Biden’s lawyers to review in person. The Biden team was permitted to request factual edits and to submit a response that was included in the final copy.
They asked Hur to consider removing the details about the president’s memory, but Hur refused, according to two people familiar with the communications.
After that, the report went to Bradley Weinsheimer, the DOJ’s highest ranking official who is not a political appointee, for review. The White House sent him a letter making the same demands and accusing Hur of violating DOJ policies. Weinsheimer also refused to alter the report.
Weinsheimer had received a letter from Biden’s lawyers saying Hur’s report “blatantly violates Justice Department policy and practice.” He read the report and determined that the document was appropriate and contained nothing that violated agency regulations, according to officials familiar with the internal conversations.
Next the report went to AG Garland. Once again, the White House seems to have complained or at least the White House wanted him to demand edits. But once again, they didn’t get what they wanted. Garland approved the report with no changes.
Some Biden aides wanted Garland to question the memory references when he reviewed the report, according to people familiar with the White House conversations, even though doing so would have meant notifying Congress that he had asked Hur for edits.
Garland reviewed what Hur’s team had written and agreed. He prepared to submit the report to Congress and then make it public with no redactions.
The Post says current and former DOJ officials agreed the references to Biden’s memory were not out of line as they helped explain Hur’s decision not to charge him. In short, anonymous DOJ officials say the anonymous White House officials are wrong. But the White is said to still “remain furious” over DOJ’s decision not to protect their guy from criticism.
Because this is a story at the Post the comments are the usual dumpster fire of partisan rants about AG Garland not being political enough and Robert Hur being too political.
The truth has come out. What we have known about bidens mental acuity is confirmed. The pudding brain octogenarian suffers from Alzheimer’s and most likely dementia.
Watch the democrats in full defense tomorrow to discredit SC Hur. That will be the tell that biden is a Potemkin president.
He showed the Queen Consort of England that his ass goes “brrrrrr”, too.
There is but one pertinent fact here: Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden STOLE documents he NEVER had any right or authority to possess and he KNOWINGLY RETAINED them when he KNEW he had documents he had no right or authority to possess, as opposed to Trump having declassified documents that he had the right and authority to possess.
And at least one was a heckler
https://www.c-span.org/video/?534073-1/special-counsel-hur-testifies-biden-classified-documents-report%3Ca
He clearly explains the Democrats are lying when they say his report “exonerates” Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden.