Biden’s lawyers found the documents in November when they were vacating those offices and turned them over to the National Archives.
Documents classified as classified dating back to Joe Biden’s time as US vice president (under Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017) have been found at the think tank’s offices in Washington, which the current US president has sometimes used as a work, the White House announced.
Biden’s lawyers found the documents in November when they were vacating those offices and turned them over to the National Archives, which is responsible for preserving such documents, his legal adviser Richard Sauber noted.
“The White House is cooperating with the National Archives and the Department of Justice,” Sauber said in a statement.
That “small number of classified documents” was found in a “locked cabinet” at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, he noted.
“The documents had not been the subject of any application or request,” and since being turned over to the National Archives, Joe Biden’s attorneys have continued to work to “ensure that the (National) Archives is in possession of all Obama-Biden administration records.” “, he added.
According to the US news network CBS News, Attorney General Merrick Garland ordered the Chicago federal prosecutor to review the documents, and the Federal Police (FBI) also began an investigation.
Citing an unnamed source, CBS News noted that the case involves about ten documents and that none of them contain nuclear secrets.
The FBI raided Donald Trump’s Florida home in August to recover thousands of documents, including about a hundred classified as defense secrets, that the former president had moved after leaving the White House and had refused to hand over until then. in the National Archives.
According to media reports, the confidential documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago club mainly contained sensitive information about China and Iran, as well as nuclear secrets.
“When will the FBI search Joe Biden’s many residences and even the White House?”, Donald Trump responded in a statement.
“These documents were certainly not declassified,” continued Trump, who had falsely claimed, after documents were seized at his residence, that the US president “can declassify (a document) just by saying it’s declassified, even if only by thinking about it.’
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