House Committees Probe Special Counsel For Not Charging Biden, Even As The Official Hur Report Implicates The President

The damning special counsel Robert Hur report did not charge U.S. President Joe Biden with a crime, but said he "willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen." However according to a recent report by respected journalist Catherine Herridge, chairmen of the House Oversight, Judiciary and Ways and Means Committees are now requesting transcripts, audio and video recordings and any other records related to Hur's Oct. 8 and Oct. 9 interviews with the president.

The special counsel in the report bizarrely declined to press charges, claiming Biden has serious cognitive issues are exposed, basically that he's senile. This is despite the president being criminally implicated.

Biden’s ghostwriter deleted files after special counsel was appointed.  But he won’t be charged with destruction of evidence or obstruction of justice. Different treatment to two Mar a Lago employees charged with obstruction for "moving boxes," in the former President Donald Trump's case.

"Biden willfully retained" marked and unmarked classified documents at his home, according to Hur's report. This "risked serious damage to America's national security."

There are tapes proving that in 2017, Biden told a writer he "found all the classified stuff downstairs" at his Delaware home. These documents were later found by the FBI. According to Hur, this evidence shows "Biden willfully retained the marked classified documents about Afghanistan."

There is also evidence that Biden unlawfully retained classified notebooks post-Vice Presidency; disclosed classified info in his notebooks to his ghostwriter. 

In Biden's excuse which amounts to a criminal false statement to the Special Counsel, the president explained that when he described material in his notebooks as "classified" he did not actually mean "classified." Hur apparently didn't believe him.

Recordings from 2017 captured Biden giving his ghostwriter classified info multiple times. He was on record admitting the info "probably was classified."

The ghostwriter "deleted digital audio recordings of his conversations with Mr. Biden" after he learned of Hur's appointment as Special Counsel.

Hur citing serious cognitive issues, claimed Biden "did not remember when he was vice president." He forgot "when his term began." And "He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died."

The report led to calls for his resignation, as critics ask why he'd remain the president and commander-in-chief when he's mentally incapable of performing his duties.

According to the letter first reported by Herridge,

the House Committees' chairmen also asked for all materials related to the interview with the ghostwriter of Mr. Biden's memoir, Mark Zwonitzer, with whom the special counsel accused the president of sharing government secrets and documents related to a 2015 call with Ukraine's prime minister. 

The committees' chairmen — Kentucky Rep. James Comer, Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan and Missouri Rep. Jason Smith — said the materials are relevant to the impeachment investigation into Mr. Biden. The committees have been trying to show for months that Mr. Biden was enriched by his family's foreign business dealings in China and Ukraine and accepted bribes, but they have so far uncovered no wrongdoing by the president. 

The lawmakers said Mr. Biden's handling of classified documents is part of their investigation and Hur's report would help in determining "whether sufficient grounds exist to draft articles of impeachment." 

"Given the seriousness of these matters, the committees are prepared to compel the production of this material if necessary," the letter said, requesting the materials be proved to them by Feb. 19. 

The Justice Department declined to comment.

The president's personal attorney, Bob Bauer, in an interview with "Face the Nation" also acknowledged — and pointed out the White House had also said — that there are transcripts of the interview with the special counsel and said that "there are discussions underway — because it's a classified document — about what could or whether will be or when released."

Here is the Special Counsel Robert Hur report