Attorney General Merrick Garland assigned a U.S. attorney to review the roughly ten classified documents that were found in an old office of President Joe Biden, CBS News reported on Monday.
The classified documents are from Biden’s vice-presidential office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington, which is within close proximity to Capitol Hill.
The classified documents were found by Biden’s personal attorneys just days before the midterms on November 2, according to Special Counsel to the President Richard Sauber.
Sauber said the White House “is cooperating with the National Archives and the Department of Justice Justice regarding the discovery of what appear to be Obama-Biden Administration records.”
Once Biden’s attorneys found the documents, they notified the National Archives, who reportedly referred the matter to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), leading to Garland’s appointment of U.S. Attorney John Lausch to investigate how the classified documents ended up in Biden’s old office.
Sauber said:
The President periodically used this space from mid-2017 until the start of the 2020 campaign. On the day of this discovery, November 2, 2022, the White House Counsel’s Office notified the National Archives. The Archives took possession of the materials the following morning.
The discovery of these documents was made by the President’s attorneys. The documents were not the subject of any previous request or inquiry by the Archives. Since that discovery, the President’s personal attorneys have cooperated with the Archives and the Department of Justice in a process to ensure that any Obama-Biden Administration records are appropriately in the possession of the Archives.
The classified documents were reportedly in a folder that was in a box with other unclassified materials, according to CBS News.
However, CBS News’s sources did not confirm what level of classification the documents were nor what the contents of the documents.
Hey if that is the case perhaps the good old clean President Obama did the same thing.
Isn’t it time to surround his home with armed FBI and NSCA troops?
Joey has just blown the entire issue of the Trump papers out of the water. If the Democrats want to indict Trump over the papers, and or fine him it is sauce for the goose time.
Knowing how dismissive the Democrats have been and are about security want to bet there is more out there going back to good old boy Billie Clinton, then there is the issue of the Wife and State Department problems, ….
Sure let’s dig in and find out how many Chinese and other foreigners were paying off the Dem’s.
As a 24 year retired military officer, one of my many duties was classified material control officer. If I had left ANY classified material lying around at ANY time, even in a secure military installation….My career would have been over and I would likely been given Brig time and a Bad Conduct Discharge. No exceptions for rank.
Elected politicians should play by the same rules. Documents are classified for a reason. “Need to know”. Legal double standards are no standards at all.
Watch the left cease going after President Trump regarding supposed classified material at Mar-a-Lago. A president can declassify material. If Barack Obama says HE declassified the material found in Biden’s office, he will be supporting Trump’s contention that HE (as president) declassified all the papers found at his Mar-a-Lago home. Obama would make the case for Donald Trump!
If Obama doesn’t make that claim, then Biden did exactly what he claims Trump did. End of Progressive Show and Tell.
The only hope for Progressives and Never Trumpers suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome is to focus on January 6. However, now that Republicans hold the House and will have investigative hearings about January 6 and other issues, the likelihood of arresting Trump becomes less likely.
We all know how corrupt the FBI, CIA AND THE DOJ ARE UNDER BIDEN….The GESTAPO ARM OF BIDENS ADMIN……FIRE WEVERY SINGLE ONE….GET RID OF ALL OF THEM