The DOJ is currently reviewing “a small number of documents with classified markings” from President Joe Biden’s days as vice president, which were found at his former Washington think tank in November, the president’s special counsel said Monday.
reported that among the records found were several top-secret files with designated “sensitive compartmented information,” a label typically used for highly sensitive information obtained from intelligence sources.After former President Barack Obama left office, Biden’s transition out of the vice presidency included a stint leading the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, where he kept an office until launching his bid for the presidency in 2019.
Richard Sauber noted that the records were not the subject of any previous inquiry by the National Archives, in contrast with the trove of records seized at former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate by federal agents last August. The former president has fought tooth and nail with the Justice Department as it attempts to conduct an investigation into the roughly 100 documents with classified markings pulled out of Mar-a-Lago.
Biden previously slammed Trump’s decision to hoard the records as “totally irresponsible,” a comment spotlighted in a withering statement issued Monday by Rep. James Comer , the chairman of the House Oversight Committee. “Under the Biden Administration, the Department of Justice and National Archives have made compliance with the Presidential Records Act a top priority,” he said. “We expect the same treatment for President Biden, who has apparently inappropriately maintained classified documents in an insecure setting for several years.”
On Monday, Trump himself took to Truth Social to ask, “When is the FBI going to raid the many homes of Joe Biden, perhaps even the White House? These documents were definitely not declassified.”“Is the White House going to be raided tonight? Are they going to raid the Bidens?” he asked, going on to suggest there was “a two-tier justice system” favoring Democrats and the current president over Trump and the Republicans.
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