Following former U.S. President Trump’s involvement in the possession of confidential documents in Washington, U.S. media disclosed on Monday (9th) that the office that President Biden also used before taking office in November last year found several documents from his time as vice president. Some are classified. The Biden side had notified the National Archives at the time that Attorney General Garland had 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 lawyers discovered the documents on November 2 last year, before the mid-term elections, and they were working for Biden at the time. The president’s former Washington office in the Biden Center at the University of Pennsylvania packed documents stored in locked cabinets to free up office space. Biden served as vice president during the Obama administration from 2009 to 2017. The above-mentioned office was used following he stepped down as vice president from mid-2017 until he ran for president in 2020.
The White House counselor’s office notified the National Archives on the day the documents were discovered, Thorper continued, and the documents were handed over to the National Archives the next morning. He said that the documents were discovered by Biden’s personal lawyers, not the documents that the National Archives had requested. The lawyers cooperated with the library and the Department of Justice followingwards to ensure that all documents from the Obama administration were kept by the National Archives.
According to people familiar with the matter, the lawyers found fewer than 10 documents involved in a box and put them together with other non-classified documents. It is currently unknown how confidential the documents involved are, but CBS said it does not involve nuclear weapons. The National Archives informed the Department of Justice following learning of the incident. Attorney General Garland assigned Attorney John Lausch of the Northern District of Illinois to examine why the documents were stored in the Biden Center. This is a preliminary action and Garland will decide whether further investigation is necessary , including the possible appointment of a special prosecutor. Biden was aware of the incident that month, but he did not know the contents of the document.
Former President Trump criticized that the documents involved should not be declassified, and mocked when the FBI raided many of Biden’s residences and the White House. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida was raided by the FBI in August last year due to the storage of a large number of classified government documents.
