Following former US President Trump’s involvement in possession of confidential documents in Washington, US media revealed on Monday (9) that the office also used by President Biden before taking office in November last year found several documents from his time as vice president. classified. Biden’s side notified the National Archives at the time Attorney General Garland ordered a review of the incident, suggesting the FBI was involved in the process.
CBS was the first to report the incident, and Richard Sauber, the president’s special counsel, responded that Biden’s personal attorneys discovered the documents on Nov. 2 of last year, before the midterm elections, and they were working for Biden at the time. the president’s former Washington office in the University of Pennsylvania’s Biden Center packed away documents stored in locked cabinets to free up office space. Biden served as vice president during the Obama administration from 2009 to 2017. The aforementioned office was used after he stepped down as vice president from mid-2017 until he ran for president in 2020.
The White House Counsel’s Office notified the National Archives the day the documents were discovered, Thorper continued, and the documents were turned over to the National Archives the next morning. He said the documents were discovered by Biden’s personal attorneys and were not the documents requested by the National Archives. The attorneys subsequently worked with the library and the Justice Department to ensure that all Obama administration documents were kept by the National Archives. .
According to people with knowledge of the matter, the lawyers found fewer than 10 documents involved in a box and put them together with other unclassified documents. It is currently unknown how confidential the documents involved are, but CBS has said they are not about nuclear weapons. The National Archives notified the Department of Justice upon learning of the incident. Attorney General Garland has instructed Northern District Illinois Attorney John Lausch to look into why the documents were filed in the Biden Center. preliminary action, and Garland will decide whether to proceed with any further necessary investigations, including the possible appointment of a special prosecutor. Biden knew about the incident that month, but was unaware of the contents of the document.
Former President Trump criticized that the documents involved should not be declassified and laughed at when the FBI raided several of Biden’s residences and the White House. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Florida estate was raided by the FBI in August of last year following the filing of a large number of classified government documents.
