Scandal in the US: they found classified documents in Biden’s house
On January 12, the FBI found a series of classified documents dating from when Joe Biden was vice president of Barack Obama. The place was the private residence of the president in Delaware.
At the same time, other documents were found at the center of a Washington think tank, where Biden it used to have an office, something that put the White House in the eye of the storm.
This Wednesday, The FBI resumed the investigation. and carried out a new requisition at that private address of the Head of State. “Today’s search is one more step in a thorough and timely Department of Justice process that we will continue to fully support and facilitate,” the attorney said.
“We will have more information at the end of today’s search,” Bauer said through an official statement. The operation that was carried out now stems from a search that began in Wilmington, Delaware, on January 20, when agents located additional documents with classified markings and also took possession of some handwritten notes.
The agents of US Department of Justice entered Biden’s property with the permission of the president, who offered his collaboration voluntarily.
It is not clear, say sources close to Biden, if the agents of fbi they are looking for something they know about or if it is a random search for more classified documents, as part of the investigative process. The search could be extended up to 13 hours (local time).
The measure occurs after documents with classified brands were found on November 2 at a Biden residence in Wilmington and in a Washington office, while closing an office at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank affiliated with the Ivy League school.
Trump and Biden complicated by keeping classified documents
A 1978 law requires US presidents and vice presidents to send all their emails, letters and other business documents to the National Archives.
The White House seeks to distinguish himself as much as possible from the former president donald trumpwho has already embarked on a new run for the White House and is under investigation for bringing several boxes of official documents to his Florida residence and for his alleged obstruction of government efforts to recover them.
Although the two cases are not entirely comparable, the issue is dangerous for Biden, who presents himself as a rigorous and rule-abiding president after the scandal-ridden years of Republican Trump’s presidency.
The scandal put the management in question made by Biden and gave wings to the Republicans, who used the case to denounce the double standard, after the accusations leveled last year against Trump for also keeping documents.
Both in the case of Trump as in the of BidenThe Justice Department, anxious to avoid any accusations of bias, entrusted the investigation of the confidential documents to two special prosecutors.
Source: Ambito
