Classified documents from Biden’s time as VP discovered in private office

Mercor · Jan 10, 2023

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US intelligence materials related to Ukraine, Iran and UK found in Biden’s private office, source tells CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/10/poli...kraine-united-kingdom-beau-funeral/index.html

Among the items from Joe Biden’s time as vice president discovered in a private office last fall are 10 classified documents including US intelligence memos and briefing materials that covered topics including Ukraine, Iran and the United Kingdom, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has received a preliminary report on the documents inquiry, a law enforcement source said, and now faces the critical decision on how to proceed, including whether to open a full-blown criminal investigation.

The documents were dated between 2013 and 2016, according to the source familiar. They were found in three or four boxes also containing unclassified papers that fall under the Presidential Records Act.

The vast majority of the items in the office contained personal Biden family documents, including materials about Beau Biden’s funeral arrangements and condolence letters, the source told CNN. It is not clear if the boxes with classified documents contained personal materials.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has assigned the US attorney in Chicago, a holdover from the Trump administration, to investigate the matter, CNN previously reported. Garland made this move after receiving a referral from the National Archives and Records Administration.

The documents were discovered on November 2, just six days before the midterm elections, but the matter only became public Monday due to news reports.

The source told CNN that a personal lawyer for Biden was closing out the downtown DC office that Biden used as part his work with the University of Pennsylvania. The lawyer saw a manila folder that was labeled “personal,” opened the envelope and noticed there were classified documents inside. The lawyer closed the envelope and called NARA, the source said.

After making contact with NARA, Biden’s team turned over several boxes in an abundance of caution, even though many of the boxes contained personal materials, the source said.

US attorney has submitted preliminary findings to Garland
The US attorney in Chicago, John Lausch Jr., has already completed the initial part of his inquiry and provided his preliminary findings to Garland, a law enforcement source said.

That means Garland now must decide how to proceed. Garland was also personally involved in some of the key decision-making related to the Trump documents investigation and the decision to send the FBI to search Mar-a-Lago.

Garland chose to have Lausch conduct the Biden documents investigation because he is one of two remaining Trump-appointed US attorneys, and to avoid the appearance of conflict of interest because he wasn’t appointed by Biden, people briefed on the matter said.

In an awkward moment on Monday, Garland was sitting alongside Biden at a diplomatic summit in Mexico while reporters shouted questions about the probe. Both men ignored the questions.

Lausch was one of the rare Trump-era holdovers who wasn’t told to resign after Biden’s inauguration in 2021, and Illinois’ two Democratic senators supported the decision to keep him at his post in part because he was handling the politically sensitive investigation of Michael Madigan, the former Democratic Illinois House speaker indicted on corruption charges.
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Was Trump trading classified documents for sex with hookers hired by foreign intelligence agencies?

Tony Stark · Jan 10, 2023

Somebody might be telling Biden not to run again.This might be just the beginning

gwb-trading · Jan 10, 2023

elderado · Jan 10, 2023

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You really are beginning the stages of an overvaccinated loon. Stretch some more.

UsualName · Jan 10, 2023

Tsing Tao said:
You aint kidding. Every one of these snakes is guilty of the same stuff they go after their opponents on. And fools on both sides of the aisle focus on going after each other rather than attacking the system that allows the snakes to prosper.
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They’re not guilty of the same stuff, well at this point at least. Trump’s biggest problem is the obstruction and lying to federal investigators. Biden, or Biden’s staff, doesn’t have that problem (yet).

exGOPer · Jan 10, 2023

wildchild said:
Avenatti, Biden knowingly and willing, illegally stored these documents. The only difference between this and the Trump incident is that Trump was President and had a need to know. Biden was Vice President and had no need to know and he did not have the authority to remove them in the first place.
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Hey Karen Lake, Trump was Prez in 2021 when he gave the documents to Saudis?

Snarkhund · Jan 10, 2023

No raid no justice.

I say we should devolve to the point where every previous President is imprisoned by the current President.

Then we can argue about whether the oscillatory system is underdamped, critically damped or overdamped.

I'm looking a nice place with a ruling military junta... y'know... for freedom.

ipatent · Jan 10, 2023

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Biden had them for at least six years while a private citizen, Trump less than two.

gwb-trading · Jan 11, 2023

Biden classified docs vs. Trump classified docs: What's the difference?
The discovery of classified documents among Biden's papers is a bad look for the president, but the circumstances of the find are much different from those of the Trump case.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/ju...vs-trump-classified-docs-difference-rcna65087