Harold Pease, Ph.D.
Patriots, those loyal to the Constitution as written, our history, values and culture are deeply troubled by the last August unprecedented Biden government’s raid of the home of a former President of the United States at Mar A Lago. Trump, was then and continues to be, the leading opposition party and opponent in the 2024 Presidential election. The cause was his possession of documents he declassified before leaving office and was allowed to have in his possession, as practiced by his predecessors Clinton, Bush and Obama.
America First Legal, the organization most deeply probing the extreme aggressive behavior of the opposition political party, released the likelihood that Joe Biden himself requested the raid on the home of his leading opponent. On April 10, 2023 they wrote. “Records obtained from our investigation into circumstances surrounding the Mar-A-Lago raid further confirm that the FBI obtained access to these records through a ‘special access request’ from the Biden White House on behalf of the D.O.J” (X22 Reports hereafter not cited, Ep. 3044b, April 12, 2023, 35:58).
On August 8, 2022, 6:00 a.m., the FBI conducted the unprecedented raid on Mar-A-Lago complete with cameras and reporters on the ground. Shortly after the raid LibertyUnderFire published that the FBI visited the Trump residence June 3, two months before the raid and examined the previously declassified documents he had. They knew what he had, where stored, and only requested that they double lock the room (“What the Deep State Really Want is Civil War,” by Harold Pease, Ph.D. August 2022). The Aug. 8 raid was staged for the media.
America First Legal continues, “According to press reports, Biden Administration aides were surprised to hear of this development [the raid]. However. the new records we obtained from our investigation into the circumstances of the Mar-A-Lago raid reveal the Biden White House and DOJ coordinated to obtain the Trump records and perhaps created a pretext for the law enforcement raid by way of a ‘special access’ request (Ep. 3044b, April 12, 2023, 35:58).
“What this means is that there are substantial discrepancies between what the Archives [National Archives and Records Administration or NARA] has told Congress and what appears in its internal communications. For example, Acting Archivist Debra Wall told Rep. Mike Turner on Aug. 16, 2022, that NARA ‘had not been involved in the DOJ investigation of any searches that it has conducted.’ This stunning revelation suggests that NARA was misleading Congress about the White Houses’s role in the shocking raid of President Trump’s home, and the fact that the Biden White House was acting ‘on behalf of’ the DOJ raises significant legal concerns.
“The ‘special access’ statute authorizes special access requests to an incumbent president ONLY when the records in question are needed for ‘the conduct of current business’ of the White House….Providing documents to the DOJ for purposes of a criminal investigation is not the ‘current business’ of the White House. Accordingly, America First Legal is demanding NARA turn over records related to the Biden White House’s involvement in the politically motivated raid of President Trump’s home.
“Gary Stern, the National Archives General Counsel, confirms, in an email obtained by America First Legal, that ‘the Justice Department, via the Biden White House had made the [special access] request,’ regarding the Documents at President Trump’s home, Mar-A-Lago.” Biden secretary said that her boss “had nothing to do with it. He wasn’t abusing his power.” Biden had said, “I had no knowledge of this.” The “new evidence shows something very different.” The raid was election interference at its highest level and Biden raided his political opponent.
The biggest irony of the above classification raid is that Biden has classified documents unaccountably strung out all over the place. All are illegally held other than those classified, then declassified, during his tenure in office —the last 28 months. America First Legal is also involved in tracing where these might be. What follows is what we know.
Through a Freedom of Information Act request “The National Archives admitted to America First Legal that 1, 170 pages of Biden’s Vice Presidential records were found at the Penn Biden Center.” These “records are currently with special counsel Rob Hur.” Should any of these be classified does Hur have clearance to read them? “They also admit they ‘lack custody’ of Biden’s other misplaced records found in Delaware.” Presumably those in the Biden home and garage. Where are these records? “NARA admits they found 9 boxes of materials at Biden’s personal attorney’s office in Massachusetts” (Ep. 3034b, March 31, 2023, 7:10). Why are these not under lock and key at NARA and does Biden’s personal attorney have reading clearance.
Still not accounted for are “dozens of boxes … stored in Chinatown” (Ep. 3045b, April 13, 2023). Or the “1,850 boxes in Delaware that he refuses to give up and the FBI and DOJ refuse to search,” (Ep. 3037b, April 4, 2023, 29:43)—perhaps the University of Delaware. Most may not be classified but some likely are, as we found classified documents in Biden’s possession as a US Senator. But for Biden as a citizen, senator, vice president or even now, his holding classified documents that he did not generate and declassify is against the law and a serious crime.
Under Biden, top-secret classified documents are scattered wherever in at least five different locations in three states and Washington DC. Some they do not know where they are—or care. Obviously the Democrats, FBI, and DOJ seem to have no concern or regard for their crimes on the subject. Contrast this with their fanatical raid on Mar-A-Lago to find even one actual classified document. What we have is the most lawless president, respecting classified documents in American history, requesting an FBI raid for classified documents on the Trump home while he himself is the only real offender.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 710 Subscribe now for free columns at this address. Help preserve our Republic while we still can.