FUDGED TIMELINE
?We are confident that a thorough review will show that these documents were inadvertently misplaced and the president and his lawyers acted promptly upon discovering of this mistake,? Richard Sauber, White House special counsel, said in a statement on Jan. 12, 2023.
But Hur?s report revealed that Biden was caught on tape acknowledging he had classified documents in his home as early as 2017 ? years before claiming he?d had no knowledge of possessing classified material. And at that time, Biden did not have the legal protections of the presidency.
DESTRUCTION OF EVIDENCE
The ghostwriter who helped Biden pen his 2017 memoir, Promise Me Dad, destroyed recordings of conversations with Biden after learning that Attorney General Merrick Garland had appointed a special counsel to investigate the issue.
?The recordings had significant evidentiary value,? Hur said.
For the other takeaways:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2846710/five-takeaways-from-the-biden-classified-document-report/Obviously there were serious issues with this case. Keeping classified docs in an unsecured place and sharing them with people were serious breaches of national security. I see nothing to be gained in prosecuting a person who has memory and or possibly dementia issues. I also think the special counsel realized it would be very be difficult to find a jury in DC that would be objective for Biden's criminal actions.
I don't know the details of the Trump case regarding his classified docs issue. On the surface it appears that this might be another example of two tiered justice system? One special counsel give a person a pass and the other is not giving a pass on similar problems.