Reuters-
Classified documents from Joe Biden’s vice-presidential days were discovered in November by the U.S. president’s personal attorneys at a Washington think tank, a White House lawyer said on Monday.
Nearly 10 documents were found at Biden’s office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, CBS News reported earlier, adding that U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland had asked the U.S. attorney in Chicago to review the classified documents which were handed over to the National Archives.
The classified material was identified by personal attorneys for Biden on Nov. 2, days before the midterm elections, Richard Sauber, special counsel to the president, said in a statement on Monday.
Biden had periodically used that office space from mid-2017 until the start of his 2020 presidential campaign. The White House Counsel’s Office notified the National Archives on the day of the discovery of those documents, Sauber said, adding the National Archives took possession of the material on the following morning.
Sauber also said the documents were not the subject of any previous request or inquiry by the National Archives.
The documents were discovered when Biden’s personal attorneys “were packing files housed in a locked closet to prepare to vacate office space at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C.,” Sauber said. He added the White House was cooperating with the Justice Department and the National Archives.
The Justice Department, the National Archives and the think tank did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Biden was vice president under former President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017.
Sauber’s statement did not mention the number of classified documents or what they contained or their level of classification. CBS News reported that they did not contain nuclear secrets.
The Justice Department is separately probing former President Donald Trump’s handling of highly sensitive classified documents that he retained at his Florida resort after leaving the White House in January 2021. FBI agents carried out a court-approved Aug. 8 search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. About 100 documents marked as classified were among thousands of records seized.
“When is the FBI going to raid the many homes of Joe Biden, perhaps even the White House? These documents were definitely not declassified,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform late on Monday.
ht/ President Elect Doctor Little Joe(parody account)
Biden having office space in a Washington “think tank”. 🤓🤣🤣🤣
Classified documents found… along with one of Numbnutz Bumblefuk’s soiled diapers.
President Biden’s Think Tank
Is that a euphemism for his Depends?
Sandy Bergler said everything’s A-OK.
CALLING AG GARLAND.
Wait until thenAG raid. Heads will roll.
Sarcasm off
In Chicago a “Think Tank office” is the place where the bribes are worked out.
Joe must have learned this procedure from Obama.
By law, the President can declassify documents by merely declaring it so, but not the Vice President. The whole point of the Mara Lago raid was to somehow render Trump unqualified to run for president again. So add one more charge to the articles of Joey’s impeachment!
Daniel
You stoopid fucking bitch. A President can declassify what ever he wants. A Vice President cannot. You lose. AGAIN.
“Brad enjoy Biden’s 6 more years.”
Do yo live in America? If you do I’ll talk to you in two. You’re light will eventually go on. Unless you’re brain dead.
Classified documents in Potatohead’s possession; iow, pictures of Big Mike’s schwanza.
He snitched them to give to Nancy.
Were those documents in the Chinese section of xiden’s filing cabinet?
OK guys, who’s up for going through Jill’s underwear drawer? Steve, you did Melania’s, wanna do Jill’s? Anyone?