By: AFP and El País
US Government Officials They found six other classified documents at the family residence Joe Biden in a new twist in an already deeply embarrassing case for the US president.
“The Department of Justice took material deemed to be within the scope of its investigation, including six (…) documents marked confidential,” Bob Bauer, attorney for Joe Biden, said in a statement Saturday.
He detailed that the files in question came from two phases of the political life of the 80-year-old Democrat: on the one hand, for his extensive career spanning over 30 years as a senator from Delaware, and on the other hand for his tenure as vice president to Barack Obama (2009 and 2017).
The new discovery adds to a string of dropper revelations in recent daysthat has been entered into White House in a very sensitive position. Biden, through his attorneys, admitted on January 9 that classified documents had been found in November at a think tank in Washington, where he is based.
Then the Democratic president admitted on January 12 that other classified files had been found at his home in Wilmington, Delaware.
documentary policy
The United States classifies its top secrets as secret, but also routinely classifies State Department communications with its embassies, even if occasionally on trivial matters, as the WikiLeaks leaks show. By their nature, the contents of improperly stored documents have not been disclosed. Bidenalthough it is known that some about the UK, Ukraine and Iran.
Ten classified documents that Biden had in his office were discovered on November 2, days earlier election half of his term, where news like this can have a clear impact. The discovery, however, was not made known until two weeks ago and this delay is one question the White House has yet to respond to.
Biden said he was “appalled” to learn of government records in the Penn Biden Center and assured that he had no idea what they contained. If he succeeds in convincing the prosecutor that there is no intention to seize and detain themcriminal cases can be diluted.
Impeachment is another matter entirely.
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Mandate. A 1978 law required the president and vice president of the US to send all emails, letters and other work documents to National Archives.
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