The President’s Assistants Joe Biden they discovered at least an additional batch of classified documents in a location separate from the Washington DC office Biden used after leaving the vice-presidential role in the Obama administration, according to NBC News.
Since November, after the discovery of documents with classified marks in his former office, Biden aides have been searching for additional classified materials they could be in other places he used, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity to provide details about the ongoing investigation to NBC News.
CBS News first reported Monday on the initial discovery of classified documents in an office used by Biden after his vice presidency.
The classification level, number and precise location of the additional documents was not immediately known, nor was it immediately known when the additional documents were discovered and whether the search for any other classified materials Biden may have from the Obama administration is complete.
Biden aides have been going through documents stored in places beyond his former office in Washington to determine if there are other classified documents that need to be turned over to the National Archives and reviewed by the Justice Department, the person familiar with the matter said.
The search was described as exhaustive, with the goal of obtaining a complete count of all classified documents that may have been inadvertently packed in boxes when Biden left the space occupied by the vice president’s office in January 2017.
On Tuesday, Biden told reporters in Mexico City that he was “shocked” to learn in November that his lawyers found classified government documents in his former office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement.
President Biden that his staff had fully cooperated with the National Archives and the Department of Justice, which is looking into the matter.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has been briefed on the investigation but it is not yet known if he has made a decision.
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Source: La Opinion
