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chowder66

(12,105 posts)
22. The response from Biden's lawyers is worth the read....
Thu Feb 8, 2024, 06:37 PM
Feb 2024

More on what Hur found potentially prosecutable. The report is a bullshit spin job and it's infuriating.

from page 386

In an audio recording with Mr. Zwonitzer. the President said: '"I just found all the classified stuff downstairs. I wrote the President a handwritten forty-page memorandum arguing against deploying additional troops to Afghanistan on the grounds that it would not matter." Yet your report appears to conclude that the President was referring to marked classified Afghanistan documents. rather than the precise document referred to in the actual recording: the President" s handwritten letter to President Obama about Afghanistan. which the President viewed as a sensitive and private communication. Indeed. the President testified in his interview that. although he didn't remember the comment to Mr. Zwonitzer, the •'only thing that [he] can think of" Vas this handwritten letter to President Obama. Tr.. Day II, at 38. We believe that an accurate recitation of the evidence on this point would recognize the strong likelihood that the President was referring in the recording to his private handwritten letter to President Obama­ the one mentioned on this recording immediately after the eight words that you are focused on­ rather than the marked classified Afghanistan documents discovered in the Wilmington garage.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24414122-report-from-special-counsel-robert-k-hur-february-2024

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Looks like the trumper judge senseandsensibility Feb 2024 #1
Yep, its the DOJ indicating they're very political and partisan without saying they're very political and partisan uponit7771 Feb 2024 #2
Yet, they are reporting that the DATE of the interviews was OCT 7--the day Hamas attacked Israel???? hlthe2b Feb 2024 #3
Good point senseandsensibility Feb 2024 #5
Investigators often note characteristics of those whom they are interviewing. TwilightZone Feb 2024 #9
Did any of Jack Smith's reports on Cheato senseandsensibility Feb 2024 #11
haha, yes TwilightZone Feb 2024 #16
Mea culpa TwilightZone Feb 2024 #23
Thank you for saying that senseandsensibility Feb 2024 #24
I had only seen the first few snippets from the report at the time. TwilightZone Feb 2024 #26
Honestly, this is a lot worse than Comey's gratuitous comments on the Clinton email investigation. Tommy Carcetti Feb 2024 #4
Yes, subtle they senseandsensibility Feb 2024 #7
Looks like orchestrated to conservative talking points. PufPuf23 Feb 2024 #25
Might as well have had Trump himself write the report! LeftInTX Feb 2024 #31
Yet many defend Garland FHRRK Feb 2024 #6
How did he willfully retain videohead5 Feb 2024 #8
Good point senseandsensibility Feb 2024 #10
From the NYT article chowder66 Feb 2024 #19
The response from Biden's lawyers is worth the read.... chowder66 Feb 2024 #22
Yes it is liberalmediaaddict Feb 2024 #12
Just saw this on TV and my jaw dropped. Native Feb 2024 #13
Yup. ismnotwasm Feb 2024 #14
Surprise, No, it was written by a republican that has egg on his face. republianmushroom Feb 2024 #15
What's the reason for this memory lapse? bigtree Feb 2024 #17
You should be in charge of Biden's rapid response team senseandsensibility Feb 2024 #18
The material was worse than I thought it would be Johonny Feb 2024 #20
Orchestrated... 2naSalit Feb 2024 #21
Hur knew he could say what he wanted without fear of death threats.Like he would get from the sick fuck Walleye Feb 2024 #27
Another example of the way Rs are pampered and catered to senseandsensibility Feb 2024 #29
I object. Argumentative and speculation on Hur's part. sinkingfeeling Feb 2024 #28
If you can't argue the facts or the law, pound the table. apnu Feb 2024 #30
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