FBI, Biden & Rehoboth Beach: What Took So Long?

As Brittany Bernstein reports, the FBI is now searching President Biden’s Rehoboth Beach home. This search, to which Biden consented, is occurring nearly three months to the day after a batch of highly classified documents was found in Biden’s private office at his Washington think tank.

It is also happening nearly two weeks after the FBI finally searched Biden’s Wilmington home and seized classified documents going back to his time in the Senate, which ended 14 years ago. Senators are not permitted to remove classified information from Capitol Hill SCIFs (sensitive compartmented information facilities). The FBI’s Wilmington search turned up six “items” worth of classified documents. Ergo, that search on January 20, coming after discoveries of classified information in multiple Biden private locations — the office (November 2) and the Wilmington garage (December 20) and den (January 12) — established that (a) Biden has made a career of mishandling national-defense intelligence in a grossly negligent way (to borrow from the statute, Section 793[f]) that makes such conduct a felony, and (b) all Biden private locations should be searched since classified documents could be anyplace he has set up shop.

As Brittany Bernstein reports, the FBI is now searching President Biden’s Rehoboth Beach home. This search, to which Biden consented, is occurring nearly three months to the day after a batch of highly classified documents was found in Biden’s private office at his Washington think tank.

It is also happening nearly two weeks after the FBI finally searched Biden’s Wilmington home and seized classified documents going back to his time in the Senate, which ended 14 years ago. Senators are not permitted to remove classified information from Capitol Hill SCIFs (sensitive compartmented information facilities). The FBI’s Wilmington search turned up six “items” worth of classified documents. Ergo, that search on January 20, coming after discoveries of classified information in multiple Biden private locations — the office (November 2) and the Wilmington garage (December 20) and den (January 12) — established that (a) Biden has made a career of mishandling national-defense intelligence in a grossly negligent way (to borrow from the statute, Section 793[f]) that makes such conduct a felony, and (b) all Biden private locations should be searched since classified documents could be anyplace he has set up shop.

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.