Tea at Trianon: Who Is Special Counsel Robert Hur?

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Sunday, February 11, 2024

Who Is Special Counsel Robert Hur?

From Creative Destruction Media:

Special Counsel Robert Hur served as the lead counsel in the investigation of President Joe Biden’s possession and handling of top secret classified documents. Hur's excuse to absolve Biden of responsibility does not follow his legal duty. Hur was appointed in 2017 by Donald Trump as the US Attorney in Maryland, its chief federal law enforcement officer in the state. When President Trump left office, Hur also left his position.

On Thursday, Hur published a 345-page report that alleges that President Biden had "willfully retained and disclosed classified materials", but should not face charges for doing so. The investigation conducted by Hur was sweeping. His team of Investigators conducted 173 interviews with 147 witnesses, including the president for two days. Hur referred to Biden as a "sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

So, why did President Biden become so unhinged and upset and forced to hold a press conference late Thursday where he clearly displayed his temper and indignation to the reporters and bring up his son Beau Biden, obviously, looking for sympathy. Hur’s report argued it would be difficult to "convince a jury that they should convict him - by then a former president well into his 80s of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.” In the report, Hur noted that the president did not remember when he was vice-president or even when his late son, Beau, died.

“How the hell dare he raise that…” said Biden during his press conference on Thursday according to the report. Biden further denied that he “shared” any documents although Hur’s report concluded otherwise. “I did not share. I did not share…” Biden angrily stated to the White House press corps.

Seemingly, those memory references offended President Biden although his memory loss was the reason Hur decided not to prosecute President Biden even though Special Counsel Hur concluded that Biden willfully removed and shared the top secret classified documents after housing them in his office, garage and basement den in not one home in Delaware, but in the Biden Penn Center office as well as in the mansion Biden rented or was given as a guest near Key Bridge in Virginia just outside of Washington, D.C. after Biden left office. US Attorney General Merrick Garland said last year when the probe was initiated it was "in the public interest" to appoint a special counsel. (Read more.)