"If you ignore the overreading Robert Hur confessed to in order to justify writing a 388-page report that should have been 75, if you ignore the way Hur improperly used prejudicial language to attack a Presidential candidate and set up impeachment frenzy among Republicans, there are some interesting historic details about Robert Hur's report, such as the details of what classified documents investigators found."
"Thirty-four pages of the report consist of appendices, describing what investigators found where. And because Hur spent 156 pages explaining why he didn't indict Biden based on the actions of Senate staffers shipping 2,000 boxes of Speech and Debate protected documents first to the Archives and then the University of Delaware decades ago, there are descriptions of how virtually all of the documents got where they ended up"
"One of the most interesting descriptions, for example, explains how some of the most sensitive documents the FBI found - an envelope of documents about Obama's Iran deal, including several with a bunch of compartment markings - probably ended up at Penn Biden Center. The report describes that the documents were compiled in anticipation of a January 29, 2015 breakfast meeting at the Naval Observatory at which Biden attempted to persuade six Senators who had traveled to Israel together to support Obama's Iran deal."
A 388-page Special Counsel report includes 34 pages of appendices that list classified materials and their locations. The report devotes 156 pages to explaining decisions not to indict, focusing on Senate staffers who transferred roughly 2,000 boxes of Speech and Debate–protected materials to the National Archives and the University of Delaware decades earlier. Chains of custody and transfer histories are described for nearly all items. An envelope of Iran‑deal documents bearing compartment markings likely reached the Penn Biden Center after staffers delivered compartmented materials ahead of a January 29, 2015 Naval Observatory breakfast where Biden sought senator support; photographs show Biden with the envelope and handwritten notes later housed at the Penn Biden Center.
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