Classified documents dating to Joe Biden’s vice presidency (under Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017) have been found at a Washington think tank facility that the current president sometimes used as a workplace, the White House said Monday. .
This “small number of documents classified as confidential” was found in a “locked cabinet” at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank linked to the University of Pennsylvania.
“The documents had not been the subject of any prior request or request” and, since their delivery to the Files, Joe Biden’s lawyers have continued to cooperate to “ensure that the Files are in his possession from any Obama-Biden administration file ”, added his legal adviser, Richard Sauber.
Search at Trump’s house in August
According to the US media CBS News, Justice Minister Merrick Garland ordered the Chicago federal prosecutor to review the documents, and the federal police (FBI) also opened an investigation.
The FBI had carried out a spectacular search of Donald Trump’s residence in Florida in August in order to recover thousands of documents, including a hundred classified defense secrets, stolen by the former president after his departure from the White House and that until now he had refused to return to the Archives.
According to press reports, these confidential documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago club contained, in particular, confidential information about China and Iran, as well as nuclear secrets.
Source: BFM TV
