His lawyers will “cooperate fully” in reviewing the documents, the Democratic President assured, hoping that review would be completed “soon.”
US President Joe Biden said he was unaware of the contents of confidential documents from his vice presidency under Barack Obama (2009-2017) that were found in one of the offices he sometimes used as a workplace.
“I was warned about this discovery and was surprised to learn that documents related to the government were brought to this office. But I don’t know what the documents say,” the US President told the press Fringes of a summit meeting with the Mexican President and the Canadian Prime Minister in Mexico City.
The documents were found “when my attorneys were cleaning up my office at the University of Pennsylvania,” Joe Biden said.
A “small number” of documents
Once the attorneys determined some were confidential, “they did what they had to do, they called the archives” to turn them over, according to the president.
This “small number of documents classified as confidential” were found in a “locked cabinet” at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, Presidential Counsel Richard Sauber said Monday.
“The documents were not the subject of any prior inquiry or inquiry,” and since their delivery to the archives, Joe Biden’s attorneys have continued to work together to “ensure that the archives in their possession are from all archives of the Obama-Biden administration, ” he added.