It's something neither party nor much of the news coverage mentioned at all; the biggest missing detail from the stories elected officials told about the Hur report isn't any legal technicality in the decision not to prosecute Biden for holding on to classified documents.
The centerpiece of the investigation is a lengthy memo Biden wrote in 2009 to then-president Barack Obama, which investigators found-along with classified materials used to draft it-tucked in a cardboard box in Biden's garage in Delaware last year.
How much further would the president go if not a single person in the room voiced any hesitation about a military operation? In public, Biden moved on from the surge debate, but-consciously or not-held on to the Thanksgiving memo and the documents he used to draft it.
Biden's personal counsel objected, asking if it was an "Appropriate question," but the president cut him off: "I'll tell you why I wrote it. I was trying to change the president's mind, and I wanted to let him know I was ready to speak out no matter unless he told me don't say a word, I'm ready to speak out, and to really, quite frankly, save his ass on what was going on." The personal counsel interjected again to warn Hur that his client might not "Feel comfortable describing confidential advice that he provided." Hur responded that "Well, the president seems eminently comfortable" telling the story.
The talking points write themselves: Biden had been right; Biden had seen the future; Biden should get credit for telling hard truths.
This drama has one final twist: Joe Biden told Robert Hur exactly why he kept the memo.
Only Biden himself could fully understand what these vague gestures toward Marshall McLuhan have to do with the Afghanistan memo.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-hur-memo-and-the-tragedy-of-joe-biden/
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