WTH is Happening with the Biden Classified Document Scandal? Andy McCarthy on the Legal and Political Implications
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 18 January 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This is the third incident of document-gate in as many election cycles: Hillary Clinton with her “home brew” internet server, Trump with Mar-a-Lago, and now Biden with classified documents stored in his Washington D.C. think tank and his (locked!) garage. It is, to use Biden’s own characterization of Trump’s document scandal, “irresponsible,” to an almost ridiculous degree. And Biden’s claim that he did not know how the national secrets ended up in his home are the very opposite of comforting. Like probes of presidencies past, Biden’s scandal raises a slew of suspicions: why did the public only learn about this now, when the documents were discovered before the midterm elections? Is the newly appointed Special Counsel a piece of political fiction to slake public thirst for justice, when in reality the Attorney General answers to the president all along? Will Congress step up and provide the oversight as the Constitution intended?
These questions and more with Andy McCarthy. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute. He served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and led the 1995 terrorism prosecution against Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman. He is also the author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:03.0 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. Thanks for listening. Here's our show. What the hell's going on? What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on? I don't know what the hell he's talking about. You don't have to know what the hell is on it. What hell's the matter with these guys? We don't know what's going on. What hell's going on? |
| 0:01.1 | Who in God's name |
| 0:21.7 | knows what it's all about. |
| 0:35.2 | Hi, I'm Danielle Putka. And I'm Mark Thiessen. Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:38.5 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:40.6 | Mark, what the hell is going on now? |
| 0:43.3 | What the hell is going on is that the entire world, last August, I believe it was, was in an uproar |
| 0:49.6 | because they discovered that Donald Trump had hundreds of classified documents in his home in Mar-a-Lago, |
| 0:55.3 | including top-secret SCI, which is secure compartmented information. |
| 0:59.5 | That's the highest level of classification. |
| 1:01.6 | It means that really sensitive stuff is put into compartments, |
| 1:04.4 | and you actually have to be read into the specific compartment. |
| 1:06.9 | You can't just have top-secret clearance. |
| 1:08.4 | You have to have clearance to that specific compartment. |
| 1:11.4 | So this is very carefully controlled information. He had it in Mar-a-Laga. And I think there was |
| 1:17.1 | justified outrage at that fact. But now we've learned that Joe Biden, the sitting president |
| 1:23.2 | of the United States, when he was the former vice president and opened an office in some place |
| 1:27.7 | called the Penn Biden Center in Washington, C, which I didn't even know existed until this |
| 1:32.4 | whole happened. And I think most of Washington didn't. Influential think tank. But apparently |
| 1:36.2 | a vigil, individual fint think that was paying him a million dollars to be a professor a year |
| 1:40.4 | and he didn't teach a single class. But there's a whole other podcast to do on that. |
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