Good news! Hopefully we will finally learn more about the full extent of the use of the Autopen in the White House during the term of the senile, demented and pathological liar 46th President!
Unfortunately, the article says very little about the use of the Autopen! Lousy journalism!
"As a clip of Biden stumbling played on the television, someone asked the lawyer’s question: How were they moving paper through the White House, and could Biden even sign it?
After a brief silence, someone answered: Probably an autopen. Let’s find the documents and calendars and figure it out.
The rest became what President Trump has called the scandal of the century: congressional investigations, Justice Department and White House inquiries, evidence of the extraordinary lengths Biden’s aides took to conceal his condition, and even the rearrest of violent felons who should never have received autopenned commutations. ...
What does the release of the tapes mean?
First, it pushes the timeline of Biden’s decline back to 2016 and 2017. ...
That helps explain why the 2020 campaign used COVID-19 as cover to keep him in the basement. ...
Second, the tapes raise serious questions about special counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into Biden’s handling of classified information.
Hur declined to prosecute, concluding that a jury would view Biden as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” Yet the recordings reveal conduct more serious than Hur’s public account suggested.
At several points, Biden acknowledges that the material before him may be classified. The audio then cuts to long stretches of silence redacted for national security reasons. These are not isolated interruptions. Classified redactions cover substantial portions of the recordings.
The transcripts indicate that Biden disclosed information involving the CIA, the Defense Department, and other sensitive national security matters to a ghostwriter who lacked both a security clearance and authorization to receive it. Biden made those disclosures while pursuing a book deal worth $8 million. ...
The autopen scandal was institutional, and accountability must extend to the aides who enabled, concealed, and benefited from it. ..."
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