US President Joe Biden is 'surprised' to learn that classified documents have been found in an office that he once used and says his team are cooperating fully with a review.
abc.net.au/news/joe-biden-surprised-about-finding-of-classified-documents/101847186US President Joe Biden says he was surprised to learn that classified documents were found in a think-tank office that he once used and said he and his team were cooperating fully with a review into what happened.
Republican James Comer, the chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, wrote to White House Counsel Stuart Delery, requesting copies and details of the documents found.Mr Biden's attorneys discovered fewer than a dozen classified records inside the office at the think-tank and informed the US National Archives of their discovery, turned over the materials, and said they were cooperating with the Archives and the DoJ.
When Mr Trump finally handed over 15 boxes of records in January 2022, the Archives discovered more than 100 were marked as classified. It later referred the matter to the DoJ. Suspecting possible obstruction of justice, the FBI sought and obtained court approval in August to search his Florida home, where agents found more than 13,000 additional records, about 100 of them highly classified.
Republican Representative Mike Turner of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence sent a letter, asking US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines for "an immediate review and damage assessment" of the Biden documents' case.
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