Third Set of Classified Docs Found at Biden's Home
White House lawyer Richard Sauber on Saturday revealed in a statement that five additional pages of documents with classified markings from the Obama administration were found in Pres. Joe Biden's private home in Delaware.
Facts
- White House lawyer Richard Sauber on Saturday revealed in a statement that five additional pages of documents with classified markings from the Obama administration were found in Pres. Joe Biden's private home in Delaware.
- Typically classified documents must be stored in a sensitive compartmented information facility. Sauber didn’t provide details about the contents of the new documents and reiterated that the Biden administration will continue to comply with the US Dept. of Justice (DOJ).
- The classified material was discovered in the president's Delaware home last Thursday after Sauber traveled to the residence in order to collect and provide the DOJ with another document that Biden's team had found a day prior.
- The previous document with classified markings had been found in the garage of the president's home, where he keeps his 1960s Chevrolet Corvette. These documents are in addition to the ones previously discovered at the Penn Biden Center in November 2022.
- US Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed former DOJ official Robert Hur as a special counsel to lead a probe into Biden's possession of classified documents from his tenure as vice president.
- Former Pres. Trump continues to also be investigated for his own possession of classified documents found at his Mar-a-Lago residence.
Sources: Sky, Forbes, Politico, BBC News, NPR Online News, and Associated Press.
Narratives
- Republican narrative, as provided by NY Post. As more documents are found, it’s looking like Biden finds himself in the same predicament as Trump, and the president’s protectors in the media have less room to differentiate the two situations. The GOP-controlled House will get to the bottom of this — including how much access Hunter Biden had to the documents — meaning Biden’s presidency could be in peril.
- Democratic narrative, as provided by AlterNet. The Biden administration is being forthcoming about what it has found and cooperated with authorities. Clearly, Biden doesn’t want to have this hanging over his head the way a similar situation hampered Hillary Clinton in 2016. Every effort is being made to be transparent here, and any comparisons to Trump’s situation are false equivalencies.
