Joe Biden

Discovery of second cache of classified documents in garage increases pressure on White House.

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A new Republican House subcommittee and a new special counsel pose more of a political threat to the President than a legal one.

House Republicans immediately accused Biden of a coverup, and called for the Justice Department to investigate the President for mishandling classified information, as it is Trump. “It just runs to the foundation ethos of the department—and basic fairness to all Americans—that information in criminal investigations not be made public,” Laufman said. In Biden’s case, a far smaller number of documents was involved, and they were immediately delivered to the National Archives. “Their target is the Department of Justice, of which the F.B.I. Trump’s claims of a double standard were bolstered this week by the disclosure from Biden’s personal lawyers that classified documents had been discovered in two locations—an office in Washington that Biden used after leaving the Vice-Presidency and the garage of his Delaware home. The practice is designed to protect the reputations and the privacy of citizens who are investigated but are not found to have committed any crimes. Jordan worked closely with Trump to get House members to block the certification of the results—and voted against it himself. Jordan and some potential Republican members of the subcommittee played a central role in Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 Presidential election. At one point, Hoover created a list of twenty-six thousand Americans to be rounded up and detained in the event of a “national emergency.” The list included lawyers, doctors, scientists, professors, union organizers, journalists, and the writer [Norman Mailer](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/26/the-making-of-norman-mailer). On Tuesday, the Republican-controlled House, in a party-line vote, created a new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, which they say will be modelled on the Church committee. The anecdote exemplifies the deep fear that existed in Washington—and, in many ways, still exists—of federal law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. The misconduct spanned the Administrations of Democratic and Republican Presidents, from Franklin Roosevelt to Richard Nixon.

The US attorney general, Merrick Garland, appointed a special counsel on Thursday to investigate Joe Biden's retention of classified documents from his time as ...

The archives then issued a formal referral, leading Garland to task the Trump-appointed US attorney John Lausch to conduct a review. Lausch added it could not be him, since he was due to return to private practice, according to a source familiar with the matter. People know I take classified documents and classified material seriously. So we are going to be limited on what we can say here,” Jean-Pierre said. Biden was also not responding to a grand jury subpoena. “I will conduct the assigned investigation with fair, impartial and dispassionate judgement.

Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday appointed a special counsel to take over the investigation into the Obama-era classified documents found at ...

The Biden issue burst into public view in January, when news reports revealed that a Biden lawyer had discovered 10 classified documents while cleaning out one of Biden’s private offices in Washington, DC. She has not been able to say who brought the documents into the office. Patrick Ryder declined to comment earlier Thursday, referring questions to the Justice Department and saying only that Chung is a Defense Department employee. But one Justice official said the White House’s public statements earlier this week, offering an incomplete narrative about the classified documents from Biden’s time as vice president, reinforced the need for a special counsel. They were found in three or four boxes that also contained unclassified papers that fall under the Presidential Records Act, CNN has reported. No classified documents were located in the Rehoboth property, the statement said. The development also further puts the Justice Department and FBI where they don’t want to be – right in the middle of a presidential election for the third straight cycle. Lausch led the preliminary inquiry, and Justice Department officials said Garland based his decision on the facts that investigators had presented him. The next month, on December 20, White House counsel informed Lausch of the second batch of apparently classified documents found at Biden’s Wilmington home, according to Garland’s account. However, she could not say exactly when Biden found out the special counsel was appointed, given that he was attending a funeral for former Defense Secretary Ash Carter when the news broke. Biden frequently spends weekends at the home, located in a wealthy, wooded enclave on a lake. “I strongly believe that the normal processes of this department can handle all investigations with integrity.

President Joe Biden talks with reporters. President Joe Biden faces weeks, if not months, of legal probing. | Susan Walsh/ ...

The coverage puts Biden on Trump’s level — removing some of the high ground the president sought when he spoke this past fall about the sanctity of classified documents. Asked what he was thinking by keeping classified material next to his prized car, Biden noted that “my Corvette is in a locked garage, OK? But nowhere in their remarks or written statement was there an acknowledgment that — as Garland revealed on Thursday — more classified papers had been found at the president’s Delaware home on Dec. While Democrats have dismissed pledges like McCarthy’s as typical political fare of the opposition party, they also have been frustrated with elements of how the White House has handled the situation. Elected Democrats have largely rallied behind the president, with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries telling reporters that he has “full faith and credit in President Biden” on the documents matter. “Now we find as the vice president he’s keeping it for years out in the open in different locations.

US President Joe Biden acknowledged yesterday that a document with classified markings from his time as vice president was found in his “personal library” ...

The first batch of documents had been turned over to the National Archives and Records Administration. Mr Biden later revealed that the other location was his personal library. He did not say when the latest series of documents were found, only that his lawyers’ review of potential storage locations was completed on Wednesday night.

Late night hosts lamented that more classified documents were found, this time in President Biden's Delaware garage.

“That’s right, Trump discussed the possibility of striking North Korea with a nuclear weapon and then blaming it on another country. It’s nuclear war, not a fart.” — SETH MEYERS Even weirder, he wanted to blame it on Belgium.” — SETH MEYERS The old ‘Canada did it’ routine.” — JIMMY KIMMEL Sunday afternoons, I go in there and buff it with a handful of missile maps.” — STEPHEN COLBERT “The White House announced today that President Biden’s aides found classified documents at several locations inside his Delaware home.

Special counsels are investigating both Donald Trump and Joe Biden over their handling of classified documents.

“Is that going to get lost among a third of the country? “But it’s important to keep all of this in context: Everyone views President Biden as a far more responsible figure than Donald Trump. Now, he finds it hard to believe that Trump can be prosecuted for the Mar-a-Lago documents, regardless of the circumstances. His allies believe he is likely to make a formal announcement after the end of March. “Democrats and the country as a whole would be much better off this year and next if he’s not running for president.” The Republican former president is facing a special counsel of his own and is under federal criminal investigation for his [classification markings](/news/2022/8/29/fbi-some-trump-mar-a-lago-documents-potentially-privileged) were recovered from Mar-a-Lago, a private club that hosts constant events. Trump “is the luckiest man in American politics”, said John Bolton, who served as national security adviser under Trump and is considering a Republican White House bid. Many voters in both parties were already calling for a new generation of leadership to emerge in the nascent presidential contest. Biden’s lawyers and the White House disclosed on Thursday that documents had been found in December in Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware. The appointment came after CBS News reported Monday that classified documents from his 2009-2017 vice presidency had been found at a Washington, DC office used by Biden. And as Democrats united behind Biden’s likely reelection campaign, Republicans were at [war with themselves](/news/2023/1/6/kevin-mccarthy-fails-again-in-us-house-speaker-bid-despite-gains) after a disappointing midterm season.

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