The US investigative agency FBI has carried out raids in recent weeks at the University of Delaware, in the northeast of the country, as part of an investigation into the improper possession of confidential records by the current president, Joe Biden.
A source close to the process confirmed to the Associated Press agency, on condition of anonymity, that the raids were carried out -news also advanced by CNN television-, but did not reveal if the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had found any confidential documents. .
In 2011, Joe Biden donated the archive of his 36 years in the United States Senate to the University of Delaware, where the then vice president studied, to be opened two years after leaving public life.
Biden’s files in the US House of Representatives are not covered by the Presidential Records Act, although the prohibitions on misuse of classified information still apply.
The university is the fourth location to be searched by the FBI, which discovered classified documents at Joe Biden’s home, also in Delaware, and at his former office in Washington.
Both the White House and Biden himself have stressed their full willingness to collaborate in the investigations and have tried to distance themselves from the case of the confidential documents found by the FBI in the mansion of former President Donald Trump (2017-2021), in Mar-a . – Lake (Florida).
On January 12, Attorney General Merrick Garland moved forward with the appointment of conservative Robert Hur as special counsel to review classified documents found in private locations, including the home of former Vice President Mike Pence.
Pence’s case is very different from Trump’s, as the former vice president requested a review of documents kept at his home, as soon as other documents were discovered in his old office.
The Justice Department is also trying to determine whether Trump, or someone on his team, criminally obstructed the investigation by refusing to turn over the documents.
The situation forced the National Archives of the United States to ask all former presidents and vice presidents of the country to review their personal records to determine if they have confidential documents.
Source: TSF
