What is Joe Biden hiding in his Senate records?
“The fact is that there are a lot of things … speeches that I made … the idea that they all would be made public while I was running for office could really be taken out of context,” Biden told MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski, defending his opacity. “All of that could be fodder in a campaign. At this time, I don’t know of anyone who has done anything like that.”
He also claimed it would be wrong to divulge “confidential conversations” he had with a president “or with foreign leaders.”
These explanations are ridiculous. How can his speeches become a national secret? And the university's argument against disclosure, that the collection is “still being curated,” is tendentious. But for the sake of argument, let’s accept them at face value. Even then, it does not answer Brzezinski’s follow-up question: Why not at least allow a search only for documents containing Reade’s name?
While slamming the records shut, Biden had the temerity to claim he is an "open book."
He said nobody on his staff ever heard from Reade even informally about Biden’s conduct. This categorical statement can be verified only by searching records. Those at the National Archives, to which Biden has directed all inquiries, contain only official personnel files and claims of misconduct. Informal complaints, as Biden knows well, would not be housed there. If they exist, they would be somewhere in the 1,875 boxes of materials from his 36 years in the Senate stored at the University of Delaware, which presumably contain internal memos, staff notes, and the like. It would be easy for a professional librarian to do a search for Reade’s name.
Biden wants to have his cake and eat it, too. He claims to favor transparency and told Brzezinski that women “should start out with the presumption that they are telling the truth.” Yet he also says women's claims should be “fully vetted” and prevents Reade's from being checked by hiding the relevant documents from the public.
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