by Steve Holland and Kanishka Singh
WASHNGTON (Reuters) – “Classified” documents from when Joe Biden was vice president of the United States were found by the president’s personal lawyers last November at the premises of a Washington think tank , a White House lawyer announced on Monday.
Nearly ten documents were found in Joe Biden’s office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, CBS News reported earlier today.
US Attorney General Merrick Garland had requested that the documents be reviewed by Chicago prosecutors before they were released to the National Records Service, CBS News reported.
The “classified” documents were identified by Joe Biden’s personal lawyers on November 2, days before the midterms elections, Richard Sauber, the president’s special adviser, said in a statement on Monday.
Joe Biden had used these offices regularly from mid-2017 to the start of his 2020 presidential campaign.
The White House legal counsel’s office notified the National Archives Service the same day of the discovery of the documents, Richard Sauber said. The agency took possession of it the next morning, he added.
Neither the US Department of Justice, the National Archives Service or the think tank immediately responded to a request for comment.
Joe Biden served as Barack Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2017.
“When will the FBI raid Joe Biden’s many residences, and even possibly the White House? Those documents were definitely not declassified,” former President Donald Trump wrote on his social media Monday night. , Truth social.
(Report Steve Holland and Kanishka Singh; French version Camille Raynaud)
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