President Joe Biden on Tuesday addressed the invention of categorized paperwork at a non-public workplace he used throughout his days within the Obama administration, saying he was “surprised” by the findings and doesn’t know what the information include.
“I was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn that there were any government records that were taken there to that office,” he stated throughout an handle in Mexico City. “But I don’t know what was in the documents. My lawyers have not suggested I ask what documents they were.”
The White House introduced the doc discovery on Monday, saying that in November, Biden’s legal professionals discovered a small assortment of Barack Obama-era supplies in a locked closet on the Penn Biden Center ― a Washington assume tank that he used as an workplace from 2017 to 2020.
The White House stated Biden’s administration instantly contacted the National Archives, which maintains authorities paperwork, and turned them over a day later.
“People know I take classified documents, classified information seriously,” Biden stated Tuesday.
Sources aware of the matter informed CBS News, which was the primary to report on the paperwork, that there have been about 10 information present in whole, none of which contained nuclear secrets and techniques, one supply stated.
That’s a tiny fraction of the ten,000-plus paperwork discovered throughout an FBI raid at former President Donald Trump’s non-public Florida residence final summer season, greater than 100 of which have been marked as categorized. Richard Sauber, the particular counsel trying into Biden’s recordsdata, rejected comparisons between the 2 incidents, saying Monday that the paperwork on the assume tank workplace “were not the subject of any previous request or inquiry by the archives.”
“Since that discovery,” he continued, “the president’s personal attorneys have cooperated with the archives and the Department of Justice in a process to ensure that any Obama-Biden administration documents are appropriately in the possession of the archives.”
That hasn’t stopped Republicans, together with Trump, from pouncing on the information.
“When is the FBI going to raid the many houses of Joe Biden, perhaps even the White House?” Trump wrote on his social media community, Truth Social. “These documents were definitely not declassified.”
