Edgetho
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What else did "Biden Staffers" do that we don't know about? That even Biden didn't know about?
People we don't know. People in the shadows. Unaccountable, unelected people.
Unfortunately, the one pardon he signed was for Hunter.
But the rest might be challenged. (Though I have no idea how that would work.)
......................More at the link --
President Biden's sweeping clemency grants during his final days in office caused concern inside the West Wing and Justice Department about how to ensure his wishes were accurately implemented -- and it's unclear whether Biden himself was consulted before thousands of pardons were announced, internal emails obtained exclusively by The Post show.
The messages indicate the 46th president orally approved commutations for inmates jailed for crack cocaine offenses on Jan. 11 -- but his auto-penned signature wasn't affixed to three documents listing about 2,500 recipients until the morning of Jan. 17.
The debate over who exactly to include in the mass pardons and how to modify their sentences came to a head late on the night of Jan. 16.
Then-White House Staff Secretary Stef Feldman, a key gatekeeper of the presidential autopen, wrote to West Wing lawyers she needed evidence Biden had consented before she authorized a mechanical signature on one of the most sweeping acts of clemency in American history.
"I'm going to need email from [Deputy Assistant to the President] Rosa [Po] on original chain confirming P[resident] signs off on the specific documents when they are ready," Feldman wrote to five other Biden aides at 9:16 p.m.
Six minutes later, deputy White House counsel Tyeesha Dixon, one of the email recipients, forwarded the message to Michael Posada, chief of staff to the White House counsel's office.
"Michael, thoughts on how to handle this?" Dixon asked, adding in reference to the documents authorizing clemency: "He doesn't review the warrants."
"Ok talked to Stef," Posada replied to Dixon at 10:06 p.m.
"We will just need something from Rosa once the documents are ready confirming that the 21 people commuted to home confinement are who the president signed off on in the document titled X, and the # individuals listed in document titled Y are those with crack powder disparities who the president intended to commute," he wrote.
"Basically, something from Rosa making clear that the documents accurately reflect his decision. If you can give me a blurb whenever they are ready to suggest to Rosa, I can pass along."
The mass clemency was announced hours later, at 4:59 a.m.
People we don't know. People in the shadows. Unaccountable, unelected people.
Unfortunately, the one pardon he signed was for Hunter.
But the rest might be challenged. (Though I have no idea how that would work.)
......................More at the link --
President Biden's sweeping clemency grants during his final days in office caused concern inside the West Wing and Justice Department about how to ensure his wishes were accurately implemented -- and it's unclear whether Biden himself was consulted before thousands of pardons were announced, internal emails obtained exclusively by The Post show.
The messages indicate the 46th president orally approved commutations for inmates jailed for crack cocaine offenses on Jan. 11 -- but his auto-penned signature wasn't affixed to three documents listing about 2,500 recipients until the morning of Jan. 17.
The debate over who exactly to include in the mass pardons and how to modify their sentences came to a head late on the night of Jan. 16.
Then-White House Staff Secretary Stef Feldman, a key gatekeeper of the presidential autopen, wrote to West Wing lawyers she needed evidence Biden had consented before she authorized a mechanical signature on one of the most sweeping acts of clemency in American history.
"I'm going to need email from [Deputy Assistant to the President] Rosa [Po] on original chain confirming P[resident] signs off on the specific documents when they are ready," Feldman wrote to five other Biden aides at 9:16 p.m.
Six minutes later, deputy White House counsel Tyeesha Dixon, one of the email recipients, forwarded the message to Michael Posada, chief of staff to the White House counsel's office.
"Michael, thoughts on how to handle this?" Dixon asked, adding in reference to the documents authorizing clemency: "He doesn't review the warrants."
"Ok talked to Stef," Posada replied to Dixon at 10:06 p.m.
"We will just need something from Rosa once the documents are ready confirming that the 21 people commuted to home confinement are who the president signed off on in the document titled X, and the # individuals listed in document titled Y are those with crack powder disparities who the president intended to commute," he wrote.
"Basically, something from Rosa making clear that the documents accurately reflect his decision. If you can give me a blurb whenever they are ready to suggest to Rosa, I can pass along."
The mass clemency was announced hours later, at 4:59 a.m.
