According to CBS News, Attorney General Merrick Garland has instructed the federal attorney’s office in Chicago to review the documents, and the FBI has also launched an investigation.
Secret documents from Joe Biden’s vice presidency (under Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017) were found at the premises of a Washington think tank that the current president sometimes used as a workplace, the White House said Monday, January 9. Joe Biden’s attorneys discovered the documents in November when they were vacating those premises and turned them over to the archives responsible for keeping these types of records, his legal adviser Richard Sauber said. “The White House is cooperating with the National Archives and the Justice Department,” Richard Sauber said in a statement.
This “small number of classified documents” were found in a “locked cabinet” at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, he said. “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.
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According to the American media CBS News, Attorney General Merrick Garland ordered the Chicago federal attorney’s office to examine the documents, and the federal police (FBI) also launched an investigation. Citing an anonymous source, CBS News points out that a dozen documents are affected and none contain nuclear secrets.
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The FBI conducted a spectacular search of Donald Trump’s Florida residence in August to recover thousands of documents, including hundreds of top-secret secret defense documents, that the ex-president took with him after he left the White House, which the ex-president had previously refused to archive to return. According to press reports, the confidential documents seized at his Mar-a-Lago club contained, in particular, sensitive information about China and Iran, as well as nuclear secrets.