The discovery of confidential documents at Biden’s residence, in 3 keys

by time news

The discovery of confidential documentation in the residence and an old office of the US president, Joe Biden, has put the Executive in a very difficult situation. The special prosecutor designated to clarify what happened has opened an investigation of which some details have emerged:

1. They “accidentally” got lost

White House counsel Richard Sauber expressed his confidence Thursday that the newly appointed special counsel’s investigation Robert How “prove” that the classified documents found in a private residence and office of the president, Joe Biden, “were accidentally misplaced.” In a statement, Sauber said that “the president and his lawyers acted quickly upon the discovery of this error.”

Biden’s case jumped to the media after a notice from their own lawyersafter the discovery of the confidential documents – a dozen, according to US media – while cleaning the former offices of the president in Washington, in a closed drawer.

2. Papers from when he was vice president

Biden himself confirmed the discovery of new documents classified from the time when he was vice president of Barack Obama (2009-2017) in one of his residences in Delaware (USA). Those documents were found after other documents were discovered. Similar in Biden’s private office in the think tank Penn Biden Center, a place that “was not authorized for the storage of classified documents”.

Biden assured this Thursday that he is convinced that the conflict generated by the classified papers will be resolved. The papers in question were in the garage and in an adjoining room, explained in a statement the attorney for the presidency, who assured that the Department of Justice was immediately informed so that it could take possession of the folders.

3. Similarities and differences with the case of the Trump papers

Biden y Donald Trump they seem to have broken the rules about confidential information. The first at the end of his term as vice president in 2017, and the second when he left the White House in 2021.

Said confidential documents were found in the Mar-a-Lago club of the Republican millionaire, as well as in an old office and the garage of the Wilmington house of the Democratic president.

Due to his high profile, the Minister of Justice, Merrick Garland, handed over the investigations to two special prosecutors: Jack Smith, who has been in charge of the Trump case since November (which also includes investigations into his role in the January 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol by his supporters) and Robert How, designated this Thursday for the Biden case.

Both two cases differ by the attitude of their main protagonists. While after Trump’s departure from the White House, the National Archives they struggled to get the documents back, in the case of Biden, the president has shown himself willing to cooperate From the first moment. In Trump’s case, a year later, they obtained the return of 15 full boxes of documents, some of great historical value, such as a letter written by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Persuaded that there were more lost documents, this agency requested an investigation by the federal justice system in February 2022. After several interviews with Trump’s entourage and an on-site visit, the federal police (FBI) raided the Republican’s luxurious residence in Florida in August, recovering some thirty additional boxes.

An investigation showed that 18 documents classified as “top secret”, 53 “secret” and 31 “confidential” were among the belongings.

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