BIDEN'S HIDDEN FILES

    
                                                 By Florida Bill 

                             C'mon candidate Biden, let's open up all of your files and see if a complaint concerning your behavior was filed by Ms. Tara Reade back in 1993.  The idea that Biden's files stored at the University of Delaware and in the Senate are off limits in the face of such allegations against a former vice president and 37 year senator just doesn't fly. 
                             The disorganized and  befuddled Biden needs to get real and deal with the allegation that he assaulted Reade 27 years ago in a darkened corner of the Capitol building. 
                             "It didn't happen, period," says Biden.  But that does not close the door, because Ms. Reade, now 56, says that it did and that it was revolting, and that she filed a written complaint and that complaint has to be archived somewhere.  She failed to keep a copy, she said. 
                              Biden and other "never Trump" Democrats including Speaker Pelosi and media pundits who have abandoned all journalistic honesty and objectivity, simply take Biden at his word that Miss Reade invented the allegation.  She is an exception to the Democrat's principle that all women with accusations that they were assaulted by men of prominence "are to be believed." 
                              Last heard is that requests to the Senate personnel office and to the Delaware university to produce the files of 1992 and 1993  have been refused. As to the files archived in the Senate,  the NYT has reported that these files are deemed privileged and are protected from disclosure by a federal law. Nevertheless, it seems difficult to conceive of Biden being restricted from looking at his own files.   
                              As to the Biden files stored in vaults at the University,  Biden has a 2011 "donor agreement" with it which provides that the school has agreed to hold on to his papers which are not "public record," and to release the hold on them  two years after Biden retires from public office.  
                            Initially, the University planned to release the Biden papers in 2019 after the Vice President's retirement from public office in 2016.  But it updated that policy just before Biden announced his presidential bid to say the records would be released “two years after the donor retires from public life.” 
                            Sweeping away all the political hesitation, Biden holds the key and has the authority to direct that the boxes for 1992 and 1993 be made available for perusal by Biden as well as by a third party.  In fact, Biden could allow Reade's attorney to join him in looking through the documents. 
                            If the Biden papers stored in the Senate files, which cover 35 years as a member of that body, are protected by a federal law from disclosure, Reade's lawyers or an aggressive media should be able to cut through the red tape and obtain permission to examine the files from the early 1990s.  Because of its emergency and for the public good, a judge could authorize perusal, or the court could make an in- camera examination. 
                            In April, Biden guested on the "Morning Joe" show on MSNBC and in his jumbled and confused way said there is no reason to look for a complaint of that nature in the university files  "because they don't go there." Mika, Morning Joe's sidekick and wife, asked Biden to have someone make an electronic search for "Reade" in those files. "There's nothing there," replied Biden adding that he did not understand what Mika was asking. He then said that the files of the Senate  should be examined indicating that that is where it would be, if in fact it  existed. 
                         Describing Biden's attack in detail, Reade told the NYT that the assault happened in the spring of l993 in a dark and deserted part of the  Capitol building where she caught up to her boss to give him his gym bag which he had left behind. He pushed her against a wall and started  kissing her neck and hair.  He slid his hand up her cream-colored blouse, she said, and used his knee to part her bare legs before reaching under her skirt and penetrating her with his fingers.

                         It happened all at once, she said.  "He’s talking to me and his hands are everywhere and everything is happening very quickly,” she recalled. He was kissing me and he said in a low tone, "Do you want to go somewhere else?"  Reade said she pulled away and Mr. Biden stopped. He looked at me kind of puzzled or shocked and whispered in typical Biden rhetoric, "Come on, man, I heard you liked me."
                      At the time, Ms. Reade said she worried whether she had done something wrong to encourage his advances. “He pointed his finger at me and he says, you’re nothing to me. Nothing.” Then, he took my shoulders and said, you’re okay, you’re fine, and walked away down a hallway. 
                        Reade said she cleaned up in a restroom, made her way home and, sobbing, called her mother, who encouraged her to immediately file a police report.  Instead of notifying police, Reade said that she complained to the personnel office of Biden's behavior  which said made her feel uncomfortable, but she did not include details. She also revealed what had occurred to her brother and to friends and said she also informed her superiors in the Biden office, but again did not spell out details.
                      Judicial Watch, a citizens' watchdog organization,  has announced recently that it would initiate legal action to force Biden to open up the files. If the Reade complaint is found in the Senate archives or in the special Biden papers held by the university, it will provide an element of proof which will be impossible to ignore.  

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