Democrat hypocrisy about classified documents

 Andrew McCarthy:

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On the one hand, if hypocrisy were a crime, there’d be no one left to run Washington. On the other, if consistency were a Beltway virtue, articles of impeachment against President Biden would already have been drawn up. Democrats were so monomaniacally determined to hang the scarlet “I” on Trump that they impeached him, in a strictly partisan exercise, over his threat to withhold aid to Ukraine in order to pressure Kyiv to investigate Biden-family corruption — notwithstanding that Trump’s icky behavior was not a crime, that Ukraine ultimately got the aid (which was significantly better than the aid it had gotten from the Obama–Biden administration), and that there was indeed Biden-family corruption in connection with the Ukrainian regime (among other corrupt and/or anti-American regimes).

By contrast, in connection with his own classified-documents scandal, President Biden has actually committed crimes. And those crimes are enshrined in federal law precisely because of the potential they carry to do catastrophic damage to national security — the protection of which is the president’s principal responsibility.

Some of the classified documents Biden was hoarding were reportedly designated “TS/SCI” — meaning top-secret and sensitive compartmented information. As I explained last week (citing the relevant federal rules), intelligence is branded top-secret “only if its unauthorized disclosure ‘reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to national security.’” SCI, moreover, is the designation applied when “the information at issue could compromise deep-cover intelligence sources and/or highly sensitive methods of gathering intelligence that the government needs to keep under wraps.” You know: exactly the sort of danger that had Biden feigning outrage on 60 Minutes when invited to comment on Trump’s unlawful retention of intelligence.

Ironically, although this makes Biden a hypocrite, it doesn’t make him wrong. Indeed, when we look back at all the whoppers spouted by Biden and his flacks since CBS broke the news that launched his metastasizing scandal two weeks ago — Biden “takes classified information seriously,” Biden “self-reported” his transgressions, the Biden administration is completely “transparent,” etc. — we will probably remember Biden’s remarks about Trump as the only true statement he has made on the subject of classified information.

It’s just that those observations apply every bit as much to Biden himself.
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I have strong doubts that either case will be brought to trial at this point.  Democrats did bring bogus impeachment efforts against Trump.  I do not know if the GOP House will reciprocate. 

See, also:

There’s no hiding Biden’s fright over classified document scandal

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