President Biden's personal attorneys have discovered classified documents among what appear to be Obama-era records when the current president was vice president, according to a statement from Richard Sauber, the special counsel to the president, said.
Former-President Barack Obama and President Joe Biden at a rally for Pennsylvania Democratic midterm candidates in November. The Justice Department is reviewing classified documents found by Biden's personal attorneys, materials that were turned over to the National Archives the day after they were discovered.Former-President Barack Obama and President Joe Biden at a rally for Pennsylvania Democratic midterm candidates in November.
Biden's attorneys found the documents while packing other materials in a locked closet at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C., before the midterm elections and the National Archives were notified the same day,. The Archives collected the documents the following morning and the matter is under review by the Justice Department.
Sauber said in a statement that the documents"were not the subject of any previous request or inquiry by the Archives" and that Biden's attorneys have been cooperating with the DOJ and National Archives to ensure all Obama-Biden administration records are"appropriately in the possession of the Archives."
Sauber said Biden periodically used the office space at the center from mid-2017 until the beginning of his 2020 campaign. A source familiar with the inquiry told NPR's Carrie Johnson that U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland had tasked Trump-era U.S. Attorney John Lausch Jr. in Chicago with reviewing the matter.
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