President Joe Biden

2023 - 1 - 14

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The Origins of Joe Biden's Document Mess (The New Yorker)

On Thursday, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to investigate the handling of classified documents found in the private office ...

On Inauguration Day, everything had been transferred to the appropriate servers in the National Archive, and I think a switch was flipped and all the documents that were on the White House systems were deleted, which is the way it’s always happened and the way it’s supposed to happen. And all of that’s supposed to be transferred to the National Archives. If you’ve got pictures of your kids on your desk, or if you have other personal documents—you may have planned the trip you were going to take when the Administration is over—all that you’re allowed to take. Whenever you find documents that should have been turned over to the National Archives, I think the first response is: Well, we should have given them to the National Archives instead of taking them away from the White House at the end of the Vice-President’s term, so we’ll get them to the National Archives. So I think to have the White House counsel involved is completely logical—I certainly would’ve been involved if I were White House counsel at the time this happened. He had his own lawyers on staff, and I think he had his own staff secretary, who is the person who manages documents and all that kind of stuff. And people forget, regardless of who the President is, entities like the National Security Council, the Office of Management and Budget, they have a lot of career people, they continue. You seem to be saying, essentially, that although these classified documents are not where they’re supposed to be, because there’s no evidence of a crime, it’s up to the National Archives to alert the Justice Department, which does criminal investigations. [On Saturday, the White House announced that an additional five pages of classified material were discovered at Biden’s home.] But I would’ve done basically what the White House seems to have done, which is turn them over to the National Archives. It appears that, as the Vice-President’s office was being dismantled [at the end of Obama’s Presidency], some classified information got commingled with other material, and as soon as it was located it was turned over to the National Archives. It should have been turned over to the National Archives before then Vice-President Biden had left the White House. To talk about Biden’s response, and how classified material was handled at the end of the Obama Administration, I spoke with Neil Eggleston, who was the White House counsel for the final two and a half years of Obama’s Presidency.

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Biden Just Played Right Into Trump's Hands (Rolling Stone)

The White House said that Joe Biden's aides had found more classified information at his private residence. It is inopportune timing for the president.

And in the aftermath, rather than cooperating, he told his legal team [to get “my” documents back](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-tells-lawyers-get-my-top-secrets-documents-back-1234580501/), Rolling Stone reported in August. And that’s why a few lousy pages of improperly stored documents are going to matter. In a better world, one with a media landscape that had the credibility to hold politicians of all stripes accountable for their bullshit, and one in which the citizenry was ready to scrutinize both the politicians from their party and from the other one, this sort of argument would flop. The second goal, however, was the one he was most vocal and unequivocal about. And as an ex-president, his successful use of that tactic is all of our loss. And indeed, Trump’s most effective argument throughout his political career has been whataboutism, where he defends his own behavior by pointing out his critics corresponding flaws, regardless of the difference in scope. And on that goal, Biden is having zero success. That’s both a fact, and a truly terrible political argument. [Joe Biden](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/joe-biden/)’s aides had found [more classified information stored at his private residence](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/14/us/biden-classified-documents-delaware.html). The government has a system for storing sensitive documents, and “Don’t worry gang, it’s my home office,” isn’t part of it. Biden is now facing a special counsel investigation, and he’s planning to cooperate with it. (Especially not when there were secret documents also found at the Penn Biden Center, a [Biden-affiliated think tank](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/classified-documents-bidens-vice-presidency-found-think-tank-cbs-news-2023-01-09/).)

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More classified documents found at Joe Biden's Delaware home (Globalnews.ca)

White House lawyer Richard Sauber said in a statement that a total of six pages of classified documents were found during a search of Biden's private ...

In Trump’s case, special counsel Jack Smith is investigating whether anyone sought to obstruct their investigation into the retention of classified records at the Palm Beach estate. The Justice Department historically imposes a high legal bar before bringing criminal charges in cases involving the mishandling of classified information, with a requirement that someone intended to break the law as opposed to being merely careless or negligent in doing so. Sauber’s statement did not explain why the White House waited two days to provide an updated accounting of the number of classified documents records. The apparent mishandling of classified documents and official records from the Obama administration are under investigation by a former Sauber said in a statement Saturday that Biden’s personal lawyers, who did not have security clearances, stopped their search after finding the first page on Wednesday evening. The White House had said previously that only a single page was found there.

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More classified material found at Joe Biden's Delaware home (BBC News)

The discovery of documents throughout the investigation has been called a political embarrassment for Mr Biden, as it comes during an ongoing investigation into ...

There are three basic levels of US classification: confidential, secret and top secret. The six pages found in Mr Biden's home this week are in addition to documents found in Mr Biden's garage in December and at his former offices at the Penn Biden Center in November. But Mr Sauber, who has security clearance, says he returned to Mr Biden's Delaware home on Thursday evening to get the documents ready to hand to the Justice Department. But now, the White House has said an additional five pages of classified documents were found at Mr Biden's residence on Thursday evening. Mr Biden's lawyer Richard Sauber said he discovered the additional documents on Thursday which were immediately handed to the Justice Department. An additional five pages of classified material has been found in US President Joe Biden's family home in Delaware, the White House has said.

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Biden documents bungle seen as political black eye before 2024 ... (Reuters)

This week's revelations that U.S. President Joe Biden stored classified documents in his Delaware home from his time as vice president has caused a ...

"It makes Biden look like a giant hypocrite," Conant said. Biden has pushed infrastructure and climate change legislation through Congress and led democratic nations' united response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The former president, responding to the latest developments on his Truth Social platform, questioned when Biden's homes would be searched. Axelrod said the latest developments were an "embarrassment" because Biden criticized his predecessor after the FBI found classified government documents during a court-ordered search of Trump's Florida resort. "He's been on a huge run here. Trump announced his own re-election bid last year.

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More classified documents found at Joe Biden's Delaware home ... (CBC.ca)

Lawyers for U.S. President Joe Biden found more classified documents at his home in Wilmington, Del., than previously known, the White House acknowledged on ...

In Trump's case, special counsel Jack Smith is investigating whether anyone sought to obstruct their investigation into the retention of classified records at the Palm Beach estate. He was asked by a reporter on Thursday about the wisdom of storing important material next to his Corvette. Sauber's statement did not explain why the White House waited two days to provide an updated accounting of the number of classified documents. "The DOJ officials with me immediately took possession of them." Sauber said in a statement on Saturday that Biden's personal lawyers, who did not have security clearances, stopped their search after finding the first page on Wednesday evening. The White House had said previously that only a single page was found there.

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What Is The Classified Documents Saga Involving US President Joe ... (ABP Live)

Joe Biden is not the first US President who is entangled in such a case. His predecessor Donald Trump is facing a criminal investigation after about 300 ...

In the past, a similar case concerning classified documents came to light when former US President Bill Clinton’s National Security Advisor Samuel R. What was first found was a bunch of classified documents that were locked up in a closet at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, a Washington-based think tank, by his personal attorneys. We have now publicly released specific details about the documents identified, how they were identified, and where they were found.” They contained information about Ukraine, Iran and the UK, which were dated between 2013 and 2016, according to a report by CNN. On Saturday, the White House said additional documents were found at Biden’s Delaware home. White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre has said the US President is looking at the matter “very seriously”.

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More classified documents found at US President Joe Biden's home (Euronews)

Lawyers for United States President Joe Biden have found five additional pages with classified markings at his home in Wilmington, Delaware.

The White House is already facing scrutiny for waiting more than two months to acknowledge the discovery of the initial group of documents at the Biden office. Sauber's statement did not explain why the White House waited two days to provide an updated accounting of the number of classified records. The White House had said previously that only a single page was found there.

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GOP Lawmaker Seeks Biden Visitor Logs in Classified Papers Fight (Bloomberg)

A Republican lawmaker leading investigations of President Joe Biden's administration called on the White House to turn over visitor logs to his home in ...

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