According to the White House, the US justice department is looking into possibly sensitive documents discovered in President Joe Biden’s previous workspace at a think group.
According to Mr. Biden’s legal team, about 10 of the documents were found in a locked closet at the Penn Biden Center in Washington in November.
The National Archives has received the batch.
Donald Trump, Mr. Biden’s predecessor, is being investigated for moving sensitive documents to Florida after leaving office.
The investigation into the sensitive materials discovered at the Penn Biden Center is reportedly involving the FBI, and US Attorney General Merrick Garland has been asked to evaluate the documents, according to the BBC’s US partner CBS News.
According to the White House, the US justice department is looking into possibly sensitive documents discovered in President Joe Biden’s previous workspace at a think group.
According to Mr. Biden’s legal team, about 10 of the documents were found in a locked closet at the Penn Biden Center in Washington in November.
The National Archives has received the batch.
Donald Trump, Mr. Biden’s predecessor, is being investigated for moving sensitive documents to Florida after leaving office.
The investigation into the sensitive materials discovered at the Penn Biden Center is reportedly involving the FBI, and US Attorney General Merrick Garland has been asked to evaluate the documents, according to the BBC’s US partner CBS News.
According to a source with knowledge of the situation, the batch was housed in a folder with other unclassified files and did not include nuclear secrets.
The files were found right before the midterm elections by Biden attorneys who were cleaning out the office space, according to Richard Sauber, special counsel to President Biden, who spoke in a statement to CBS on Monday.
From 2017 through 2020, Mr. Biden had a desk at the think tank, which is a mile away from the White House.
Mr Sauber said: “Since that discovery [of the documents], the president’s personal attorneys have co-operated with the [National] Archives and the Department of Justice in a process to ensure that any Obama-Biden Administration records are appropriately in the possession of the Archives.”
On Monday, Mr. Trump responded on his social media platform Truth Social, wondering when the FBI would raid Joe Biden’s numerous residences, possibly even the White House.
For reportedly refusing to turn over roughly 300 secret documents that he took to his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, after leaving office, Mr. Trump is under investigation. In one case, the authorities received a tip from the National Archives.
The Biden files were uncovered just before the Justice Department indicated that it would choose whether to charge Mr. Trump criminally for the materials recovered at his golf club.
On Monday, Congressman James Comer, the newly elected Republican head of the House Oversight Committee, stated that there were concerns about the justice department’s impartiality about the handling of the Biden documents.
According to him, the DoJ [justice department] has a two-tier justice system with regard to how they treat Republicans and Democrats, and most definitely how they treat the past president and the present president.
The National Archives and the Penn Biden Center did not respond right away.
When President Biden appeared on CBS in September, he was questioned about a picture that showed the papers found at Mar-a-Lago.
“How could somebody be that careless?” said the president.
