About Those “Misplaced” Classified Documents…

Patrick G. EddingtonNo one should envy Attorney General Merrick Garland. He now has another presidential scandal involving “misplaced” or otherwise purloined classified documents on his hands. Except this time, it involves President Joe Biden, the man who nominated Garland to be the nation’s chief law enforcement officer.Naturally, many of Biden ’s political opponents aredrawing parallels between the mountain of classified material that Donald Trump shipped to Mar ‐​a‐​Lago and the two batches (and counting?) of classified material in Biden’s possession outside of proper federal handling and storage channels. Biden’s lawyers and the White House have said they notified the National Archives immediately when the documents were discovered.TheNew York Times’ Glenn Thrush essentially parroted the White House’s framing in his own coverage:But the circumstances of the two cases appear strikingly different. Unlike Mr. Trump, who resisted returning the records stored at Mar ‐​a‐​Lago and failed to fully comply with a subpoena, Mr. Biden ’s team appears to have acted swiftly and in accordance with the law, immediately summoning officials with the National Archives to retrieve the files,” Thrush wrote. “The archives then alerted the Justice Department, according to the White House.Yet both the White House and Thrush elided key issues.Why were the materials at a Biden think tank and at his Delaware home long after he left office as Barack O...
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