U.S. President Joe Biden has denied knowledge of the contents of classified official documents found at a research facility affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in Washington, from which he occasionally worked when he was vice president under Barack Obama, stressing that lawyers have contacted the National Archives. to hand them over, and some of them were confidential, in turn the White House confirmed that he was cooperating with the archives and the Department of Justice in this matter, while the federal prosecutor in Chicago ordered the documents to be checked, and the police began investigations in this regard. .I knew that documents related to the government were given to this institution, but I do not know what is contained in these documents.” And he added: “His lawyers will cooperate fully during the study of these documents, expressing the hope that these procedures will end soon.” Biden indicated that once his lawyers discovered that some of these documents were classified, “they did what they had to do and called the Archives” to turn them over to them.
According to the American news network CBS News, Attorney General Merrick Garland ordered the federal prosecutor in Chicago to examine the documents, and the federal police began investigating the case.
