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Bill Clinton's Pardon for Classified Documents | [site:name] | National Review 8-21-15
Déjà Vu: When Bill Clinton Pardoned His Former CIA Director over Classified Documents on His Home Computer
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White House uses special counsel probe to duck questions about Joe Biden's handling of govt secrets - Washington Times 1-17-23
White House uses special counsel probe to duck questions about Biden’s handling of govt secrets
By
Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times - Tuesday, January 17, 2023
The White House on Tuesday refused to divulge new details about the search for more classified documents at President Biden’s homes in Delaware.
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Blinken ‘Surprised’ Biden Classified Documents Found at Center He Directed (theepochtimes.com) 1-18-23
Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at the State Department in Washington on Jan. 4, 2023. (Sarah Silbiger/Reuters)
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Blinken ‘Surprised’ Biden Classified Documents Found at Center He Directed
January 18, 2023 Updated: January 18, 2023
U.S. Secretary of State
Antony Blinken said on Jan. 17 that he was “surprised” to learn that classified documents had been discovered at the
Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington, where President Joe Biden previously had an office.
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Joe Biden casts aside transparency pledge as document crisis worsens - Washington Times 1-19-23
Biden casts aside transparency pledge as document crisis worsens
President Joe Biden listens during a meeting with business leaders about the debt limit in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Oct. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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By
Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times - Thursday, January 19, 2023
President
Biden pledged on
his first day in office to “bring transparency and truth back to government,” but this
White House has repeatedly fallen far short of that standard in dealing with
his mishandling of government secrets.
The president and
his lieutenants have dodged questions, stonewalled Congress and imposed an information blackout in response to Obama-era classified documents that were discovered unsecured at various locations that Mr.
Biden used.
On Thursday, the president said
he has “no regrets” about
his handling of the matter.
“We’re fully cooperating and looking forward to getting this resolved quickly,” Mr.
Biden told reporters in California, where
he was touring storm damage. “I think you’re going to find there’s nothing there. … There’s no there there.”
Mr.
Biden is engulfed in the biggest political crisis of
his presidency after a “small number” of classified documents were discovered in November at the
Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, a Washington think tank where
he kept an office after serving as vice president.
The president’s attorneys then searched
his personal residences and turned up additional classified documents at
his Wilmington, Delaware, home during January and December inspections.
The revelations have sparked several key questions that the
White House has not answered. One question is why the Justice Department’s investigation was made public two months after the first document was found.
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Mixed Reaction From Republicans as Special Counsel Announced to Probe Biden’s Classified Documents (theepochtimes.com)
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, Republican of California, holds a press conference in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 12, 2023. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
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Mixed Reaction From Republicans as Special Counsel Announced to Probe Biden’s Classified Documents
January 13, 2023 Updated: January 13, 2023
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the appointment of a special counsel on Thursday after lawyers for President Joe Biden found potentially
classified documents at his former office space at the Penn Biden Center in November and in his Deleware home in December.
The Biden White House disclosed the discovery of documents at the Penn Biden Center on Monday and then disclosed the discovery of the additional documents at his home on Thursday.
On Thursday, Garland
announced he had appointed former federal prosecutor Robert Hur as a special counsel to investigate the documents discovered at Biden’s home and office space.
Several Republican lawmakers had called for Garland to appoint a special counsel in the lead-up to his announcement on Thursday.
“Special Counsel,” said Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) via Twitter on Wednesday.
Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) said more on Thursday via Twitter, just before Garland’s announcement.
“While Biden was sending his DOJ goons to RAID President Trump’s home, HE HAD HIGHLY CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS IN HIS OWN GARAGE. In boxes next to his Corvette!! OUTRAGEOUS! A special counsel is needed NOW!” Jackson said.