BREAKING:
The Secretary of the {GOP led} Senate has turned down Biden's request for a doc search of the Tara Reade complaint saying the Senate has “no discretion to disclose" the info.. #mondaythoughts
politico.com/news/2020/05/0…
The Secretary of the {GOP led} Senate has turned down Biden's request for a doc search of the Tara Reade complaint saying the Senate has “no discretion to disclose" the info.. #mondaythoughts
politico.com/news/2020/05/0…
2-"In response to Biden's request on Friday, the Archives said it did not possess the records the former vice president said it did and that the documents in question were instead maintained by the Senate. But Senate rules suggest that those documents are maintained by the
3-"General Services Administration, which, in turn, said the records are located at the National Archives. By late Friday, Biden had written to Secretary of the Senate Julie Adams requesting that her office "take or direct whatever steps are necessary to establish the location
4-"of the records of this Office." Biden went on to ask that if any documents are located, "to direct a search for the alleged complaint and to make public the results of this search." But the confusion @ the search continued on Mon when the secretary turned down Biden’s request.
5-"“Based on the law’s strict confidentiality requirements (Section 313) and the Senate’s own direction that disclosure of Senate Records is not authorized if prohibited by law (Senate Resolution 474 96th Congress, Section 3(a)),
6-"Senate Legal Counsel advises that the Secretary has no discretion to disclose any such information as requested in Vice President Biden’s letter on May 1,” the secretary’s response said."
6-"Keeping such records closed while a candidate runs for office is standard practice, according to archivists familiar with with the personal papers of contemporary politicians." ~politico
