Why were $1,500 hr. attorneys packing up boxes for Pres. Biden?

[gab13by13]

I think I have my answer, I could not understand why President Biden would have his attorneys doing menial labor.

The lawyers were not Biden lawyers, they were White House counsel lawyers committed to the office of the Presidency, not to President Biden.

I still need one more step then; why were White House counsel attorneys doing menial labor?

[Thomas Hurt]

1. I think when the shit hit the fan with the Pig stealing docs Biden admin sent the attys...

to check locations where there might be misplaced classified docs.

[Ocelot II]

2. WH counsel, who are government employees, don't make $1,500 an hour.

It wasn't menial labor anyhow; they weren't just packing boxes. They would have been sorting the documents to determine what should be turned over to NARA. That's definitely a lawyer's job. One thing lawyers do a whole lot of is review huge numbers of documents.

[brush]

7. Thanks. $1500 an hour? Where'd they pull that figure from?

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[Ocelot II]

9. Damned if I know. Some high-profile partners at the biggest national firms

charge that much but it's not typical.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

10. And most have paralegals dong that for them.

I think only large corporate CEOs and dictators make that sort of money. My son the paralegal spends much of his work days sorting and organizing piles of legal documents for a small attorney's office.

I keep wondering how they missed so many sensitive documents and I'm confident Joe and/or President Obama would have warned them about it. Surely there are standard protocols for handing documents during presidential transitions.

This whole damned fiasco smells fishy too me.

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[MichMan]

16. Did they have the proper security classification to review the documents?

[Ocelot II]

17. I haven't a clue. Shouldn't they?

[MichMan]

19. Just saw a quote from the White House counsel that they did not

Apparently they were instructed that if they came across one marked classified or secret, they were told to set it aside and not to look at it.

[Xoan]

3. Why are we paying over $3 million/year for WH lawyers?

[Ocelot II]

11. Are we? Where did that figure come from?

[Sneederbunk]

4. Attorneys have assistants that report to them.

[Turbineguy]

5. Because....

the cheaper attorneys were all taken by trump.

I'll be here all week. Be sure a tip the waitstaff generously.

[Disaffected]

6. Because those who handled such docs

would need security clearance? Where does the $1,500/hr figure come from?

[Chainfire]

8. Because everyone else said...

"That's not my job, man."

[former9thward]

12. I would guess all the living presidents have had lawyers go thru any documents they have.

After the Trump situation. And probably some of the dead ones as well via their presidential libraries.

[elocs]

13. My question would be that why a year ago when it first came up about Trump

and his having classified documents that it never occurred to anyone in the Biden administration considered that maybe they should search to make sure that there were no classified documents in Biden's possession?

[albacore]

14. I'd have gone thru those Biden files for FREE....

.. and if any were marked "Confidential", "Secret", or "Top Secret", I'd have shredded and burned the shreds.
Ancient shit... from 10 years ago...held by a V.P... has little value....except for stirring up the Repub rabble.

Go ahead.... lecture me about ethics. My ethics where Repubs are concerned were shot off in the war.

[Fiendish Thingy]

15. Could you please link to a source?

I have read no reports that $1500/hr lawyers were actually packing boxes of document and loading them onto trucks.

I would believe that skilled lawyers would supervise the sorting of documents, and designate which documents should be returned to the archives or originating agencies, and leave the actual packing and loading to others.

[brooklynite]

18. IOW: "Why aren't Govt lawyers working in a way that I -- a non lawyer -- imagine they should?

[Hekate]

20. Link? Source? Would like to read more!

[Mr.Bill]

21. I would bet that every president in my lifetime

mistakenly took some papers with them and if they were found promply gave them back to where they belong. This wouldn't even be news if Trump hadn't pulled the bullshit he did.