CBS: in total, about 20 secret documents were found at the US President Biden’s residence, about 10 secret documents were found, and among about a dozen papers found in the office of the US president in the analytical center there are also top-secret materials
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About ten documents marked “secret” were found at the residence of US President Joe Biden in Delaware, so the total number of materials found there and at the Penn Biden Center analytical center is about 20, CBS News reports, citing a representative of federal law enforcement agencies familiar with the investigation,
According to the TV channel, among the documents found in the presidential residence, there were no materials classified as “top secret”, which is the highest level of classification. At the same time, there were top-secret documents among the documents found in the analytical center. As CBS notes, the leak of top-secret information can cause “exceptionally serious damage”.
About ten secret documents were found in Biden’s office at the Penn Biden Center in November last year, the TV channel reported on January 10. According to CNN, they related to the period of his work as vice president under the administration of Barack Obama in 2013–2016. Among the papers were American intelligence reports and briefing materials related to Ukraine, Iran and the UK. Biden was surprised that they were found there.
Two days later, Biden’s aides found a second batch of classified documents, this time at his home in Delaware. The president himself publicly admitted that they were stored in a closed garage.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on the same day appointed a special prosecutor to investigate the incident. He became Robert Hur, who previously served as deputy Attorney General, and in 2018 was appointed by the previous US President Donald Trump as the chief prosecutor of the state of Maryland (left office in 2021).
The Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Republican Kevin McCarthy, called on Congress to investigate the appearance of secret documents in the garage and office of President Joe Biden. However, a member of the House of Representatives from the Republican Party, Marjorie Taylor Green, said that the appointment of a special prosecutor would actually close access to the materials to Congress.
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However, later the House Judiciary Committee began investigating the incident. The committee’s decision to lead the investigation was announced in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland by its chairman, Republican Jim Jordan. A copy of the appeal was published on the committee’s Twitter page.
“We are overseeing the actions of the Department of Justice regarding former Vice President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents, including the apparently unauthorized storage of classified materials in a private office in Washington and in the garage of his residence in Wilmington (Delaware)”raquo;,” the letter says.
The White House expressed confidence that the documents got into Biden’s office at the Penn Biden Centre and his residence “unintentionally”, and promised to cooperate closely in the investigation.
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