WASHINGTON (AP) Jan,12- President Joe Biden’s legal team found additional documents containing classification markers in a second location, a person familiar with the matter told the Associated Press on Wednesday. An attorney for Biden said he found “a handful” of classified documents in his former Washington office, days after he said.
Earlier this week, the White House confirmed that the Justice Department was reviewing “a small number of documents with classified markings” found in the office.According to the White House, Biden’s attorneys at the Penn-Biden Center He said he found the documents in his office and immediately called the National Archives. Biden had an office there after resigning as vice president in 2017 and right before he launched the Democratic presidential campaign in 2019. A person who spoke to the AP on Wednesday said the president’s legal team had found additional classified material elsewhere. I spoke to the terms. The person did not give specific details about when or where the materials were discovered or the classification of the documents.
The revelation that additional classified documents were found by Biden’s lawyers comes hours after White House press secretary Carine Jean-Pierre dodged questions about Biden’s handling of classified information and the management of the West Wing’s discovery. Citing that Biden’s personal attorney notified the National Archives immediately, she said the White House was determined to handle the matter “properly.” But she didn’t know when Biden himself was informed, whether there were other classified documents that may have been in other unauthorized locations, until the White House authorized the discovery of the documents originally discovered. He didn’t say why he waited more than two months, just days before the midterm elections.
“As my attorney colleague explained yesterday and told you all, this is an ongoing process under review by the Department of Justice, so I will limit myself to what I can say here,” Jean-Pierre said.
The White House and the Justice Department declined to comment Wednesday on reports of a second classified record.
The Justice Department is investigating records found at the Penn-Biden Center, and Attorney General Merrick Garland has asked Chicago U.S. Attorney John Rausch to investigate, another source told the AP this week. . The person is also not authorized to discuss the matter publicly, he told AP on condition of anonymity.
Biden said he was “surprised to learn that government records were brought into that office,” but when his lawyer immediately called the National Archives, he “did what he should have done.”
The Republican head of the House Intelligence Committee has called on U.S. intelligence agencies to conduct “damage assessments” of potentially classified documents. The revelations also include a judicial review of the indictment against Trump, a Republican who is trying to take back the White House in 2024, and who has repeatedly claimed that the Justice Department’s investigation into his own actions was “corruption.” It could complicate the ministry’s deliberations.
There are significant differences between Trump and Biden’s situation, including the severity of the ongoing grand jury investigation into Mar-a-Lago.
