The US president expressed his “surprise” at the secret government documents found in his former office, and promised “full cooperation” in the investigation. Joe Biden claims: He does not know what the contents of the documents are.
Such that inform usThe US Department of Justice is investigating classified government documents found in one of President Joe Biden’s old offices in Washington. The documents date back to the Biden era as vice president. Biden used the center office until roughly 2020 after his term as vice president ended in 2017.
At a news conference in Mexico City, Biden confirmed that when his lawyers vacated his office, they found a box of documents, including classified documents, in a “locked safe.”
There are said to be ten classified documents, some of them first-class, top-secret files marked “Sensitive Classified Information”, also known as SCI, which are used for highly sensitive information from intelligence sources. According to CNN, these include documents of US intelligence on Ukraine, Iran and Great Britain, but their content has not been disclosed.
According to the White House, the documents were found and turned over to the National Archives on November 2. The documents were not the subject of a previous request or examination by the archives. In the United States, government documents are usually archived and preserved for posterity. The Ministry of Justice is investigating.
Try the white house To reduce The importance of discovery. Its officials recently held a conference call with key allies and classified classified documents as “not particularly sensitive” and “not of great importance,” according to CNN.
The discovery is also embarrassing for Biden, because his predecessor, Donald Trump, was also found to have kept classified government documents even after his term ended, which is why he was targeted by investigators last year.
Over the summer, the FBI seized thousands of documents from Trump’s private residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida. Investigations against Trump have been going on for months, as the former president may have committed crimes. Biden called Trump’s behavior “irresponsible” in September.
Even though the Biden case involves far less documentation than Trump’s, and even though his lawyers turned over the memos themselves, experts told Newsweek that Biden may still be breaking the law.
Nima Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor, told the newspaper that “taking classified documents is a crime.” “President Biden may have violated the Presidential Records Act, the Espionage Act, and other federal laws.”
