President Joe Biden has called in a longtime Democratic political fixture, Obama White House adviser, and three-decade Perkins Coie law firm veteran Bob Bauer to run point on his response to his burgeoning classified documents saga.
Bauer, who is now working as a personal attorney for the president, was brought on to handle the fallout from classified documents being found in his office at the Penn Biden Center in early November. More classified documents were then found at Biden’s Wilmington home in December and again earlier in January, and finally by the Justice Department on Friday.Attorney General Merrick Garland selected former Trump appointee U.S.
Earlier this month, Bauer defended the Biden team’s monthslong silence after discovering classified documents in early November, arguing that Biden’s attorneys “have attempted to balance the importance of public transparency where appropriate with the established norms and limitations necessary to protect the investigation’s integrity” and that “these considerations require avoiding the public release of detail relevant to the investigation" while it is ongoing.
Bauer is married to Anita Dunn, who has been in and out of the Biden White House, and who currently serves as senior adviser to Biden. “There is, however, a critical difference to be drawn between two very different contexts: the prosecution of a sitting president and its impact on the functioning of the executive branch of government, and the prosecution of a former president who may seek the office again, and its impact on political candidacies, political campaigns, and feared cycles of political retribution.”
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