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[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (3 children)

ha, they were not in a private home, they were in the garage of the private home! What a fucking liar! off with his head!

i dont really like this guy, but this article is stupid. FACT check! hahahaha

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

It got you to click. 😕 It probably went into their metrics as an example of "yeah this one's tracking pretty well." That is the sad reality of most ad-supported journalism I think.

Here's the actual special counsel report. I searched it out because I was very curious about that "and disclosed" part of "Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen," but so far I haven't learned all that much.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

well, it is cnn. they're more interested in appeasing fascists these days just in case if fascism takes over, they won't be the ones at the head of the line when they put us in the camps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

"All the stuff that was in my home was in filing cabinets that were either locked or able to be locked.”

Ehhh, I think there's a difference between a locked filing cabinet indoors and a random bankers box in the garage.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (2 children)

CNN sure is pushing this story.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)

People on the right think CNN is ultra-lefty. Meanwhile, CNN lets Republican also-rans spout shitty talking points unchallenged in prime time pointless debates.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

and when they do get challenged, "we'll have to leave it there."

cowards.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

This is so much worse than saying you'll be "dictator for a day."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

All the links in this article lonk to other cnn articles as "facts". Then goes on to say in one of the "fact checks" that it is inconclusive if he had highly classified documents after the fact was apparently he did.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago

This has always been the problem with "Fact Checks" when they're fact checking Trump too

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Hur wrote that investigators looked into the possibility that the Afghanistan-related documents found in the box were previously stored in a filing cabinet when Biden lived in a rented home in Virginia before moving out in 2019.

Hur wrote that Biden notebooks containing classified information from his vice presidency were found by investigators in “unlocked drawers in the office and basement den” of the home.

Hur wrote that Biden “should have known” that as a private citizen as of 2017, “he was not permitted to keep handwritten notes about the President’s Daily Brief and other classified information in unlocked drawers in his home.”

For example, Hur wrote, the open box in Biden’s garage contained an Afghanistan-related memo from the National Security Adviser to President Barack Obama in 2009 marked “TOP SECRET/SCI” (Sensitive Compartmented Information).

Hur wrote that experts in the intelligence community said the document contains “highly sensitive information about the military programs of the United States and a foreign government.

The unauthorized disclosure of this information, both today and in 2017 when Mr. Biden was no longer vice president, reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security.”


The original article contains 1,317 words, the summary contains 192 words. Saved 85%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Obviously they should have been in cardboard boxes in his bathroom. Silly sleepy joe keeping them in filing cabinets.