U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Thursday that he has appointed an independent prosecutor to investigate secret official documents that were found in President Joe Biden’s home and an office he has used in the past. may have broken the law” in this case.
White House press secretary Karen Jean-Pierre confirmed that there is an agreement with the Department of Justice regarding the documents found in Biden’s house. She added that the President
He knew neither the documents nor their contents.
Biden previously confirmed his “full cooperation” with the Justice Department after classified documents were found in his private home in Wilmington, Delaware.
“I take the issue of classified files very seriously,” Biden told reporters. “We are fully cooperating with the Justice Department.”
It comes after the White House announced today that it had discovered a “small amount” of classified documents in Biden’s private home in Wilmington, Delaware, dating back to his time as vice president during the Barack Obama era.
And he found other documents at the Washington research center where Biden’s office was located, embarrassing the White House at a time when authorities are investigating the misuse of classified documents by former President Donald Trump.
Richard Sauber, Biden’s special adviser, said today that after the president’s personal lawyers found the original documents, they checked other places where the documents could have been sent after Biden left the vice presidency in 2017.
Sauber said a “small number” of secretly sealed documents were found in a warehouse in the garage of Biden’s Wilmington home, and one document was found in an adjacent room.
Sauber said the Justice Department was “immediately notified” after the documents were found and that the documents were being held by the Department’s lawyers.
Commenting on this issue, Speaker of the US House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy called on Congress to investigate Biden over classified documents.
