{"id":15310,"date":"2024-02-09T00:46:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T00:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/09\/biden-considered-resigning-vice-presidency-in-protest-over-obamas-afghanistan-policy-hur-report\/"},"modified":"2024-02-09T00:46:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T00:46:17","slug":"biden-considered-resigning-vice-presidency-in-protest-over-obamas-afghanistan-policy-hur-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/09\/biden-considered-resigning-vice-presidency-in-protest-over-obamas-afghanistan-policy-hur-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden considered resigning vice presidency \u2018in protest\u2019 over Obama\u2019s Afghanistan policy: Hur report"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Biden considered resigning as vice president \u2018in protest\u2019 over former President Barack Obama\u2019s Afghanistan policies in 2009 over fear the war would become \u2018another Vietnam,\u2019 according to Special Counsel Robert Hur\u2019s report on Biden\u2019s mishandling of classified documents released Thursday.<\/p>\n

Hur has been investigating Biden\u2019s improper retention of classified records since last year. The papers included classified documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, among other national security and foreign policy records, which Hur said implicated \u2018sensitive intelligence sources and methods.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Tomorrow the President is going to make a fateful decision regarding Afghanistan \u2013 as I sat looking out the window at the sea \u2013 thinking I should resign in protest over what will bring his administration down,\u2019 Biden wrote in what the report noted was an \u2018Af\/Pak\u2019 notebook he used to take notes during a number of National Security Council meetings on Afghanistan in 2009.<\/p>\n

\u2018Although I obviously wasn\u2019t there I feel like this is what it must have felt like for Kennedy then Johnson in the early days of VTN [Vietnam]. I feel guilty and boxed in myself. Guilty for not having been more successful w\/ the President \u2013 and staying. Boxed in by knowing or at least feeling that my resignation would only harden his position and leave him with one less voice,\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n

Biden strongly opposed the administration\u2019s plans to send thousands more troops to Afghanistan throughout 2009, a view reflected in various entries in his notebook, as well as in a memo he sent Obama, that FBI agents found at his Delaware home alongside marked classified documents containing his advice to the former president.<\/p>\n

According to the report, Biden called Army leaders\u2019 request for another 40,000 troops in Afghanistan \u2018f\u2014ing outrageous,\u2019 and privately fretted the decision to do so would be \u2018disastrous.\u2019<\/p>\n

The reported later said Biden \u2018had a strong motive to keep the classified Afghanistan documents,\u2019 because of his belief the 2009 troop surge was a Vietnam-level mistake.<\/p>\n

\u2018He wanted the record to show that he was right about Afghanistan; that his critics were wrong; and that he had opposed President Obama\u2019s mistaken decision forcefully,\u2019 it said.<\/p>\n

\u2018There is evidence that, after his vice presidency, Mr. Biden willfully retained marked classified documents about Afghanistan and unmarked classified handwritten notes in his notebooks, both of which he stored in unsecured places in his home. He had no legal authority to do so, and his retention of these materials, and disclosure of classified information from his notebooks to his ghostwriter, risked serious damage to America\u2019s national security,\u2019 it added.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital has reached out to representatives of Obama for comment.<\/p>\n

Hur announced he would not seek criminal charges against Biden.<\/p>\n

Fox News\u2019 Joe Schoffstall and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.<\/p>\n\n

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President Biden considered resigning as vice president \u2018in protest\u2019 over former President Barack Obama\u2019s Afghanistan policies in 2009 over fear the war would become \u2018another Vietnam,\u2019 according to Special Counsel Robert Hur\u2019s report on Biden\u2019s mishandling of classified documents released Thursday. Hur has been investigating Biden\u2019s improper retention of classified records since last year. The <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}