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☆ Transcript of Biden's interview with special counsel Robert Hur shows memory lapses — but also detailed exchanges
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Mike Memoli | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

But the transcript of Biden's interview, which was reviewed by NBC News, paints a more nuanced picture on both sides. At one point, Hur acknowledged that some of the questions he would ask would "relate to events that happened years ago." According to the review of the transcript, Biden at times expanded beyond the narrow subject areas of particular questions. In his opening statement, Hur planned to defend his investigation, the final report and his treatment of Biden's age. He also noted that some of the issues he was dealing with as vice president continue today.

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Classified documents were found in a damaged cardboard box in President Joe Biden's cluttered Delaware garage, near where golf clubs hung on the wall. Trump, on the other hand, is scheduled to stand trial on charges alleging he hoarded classified documents at his Florida estate and thwarted government efforts to get them back. At look at the similarities and differences between the Biden and Trump investigations:WHAT KINDS OF DOCUMENTS ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? Trump is accused of not only hoarding classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, but trying to hide them from investigators and working to block the government from clawing them back. “Most notably, after being given multiple chances to return classified documents and avoid prosecution, Mr. Trump allegedly did the opposite,” the report said.

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☆ Opinion | What Donald Trump and Reality Winner Have in Common
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-11 | by ( Oona A. Hathaway | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Mr. Trump and his defenders argue that the indictment against him is politically motivated. The key difference between the legal situations of Mr. Biden and Mr. Pence and that of Mr. Trump is not politics. investigation found that out of 30,000 emails sent to the State Department, 110 emails in 52 email chains contained classified information. But only “a very small number” of the emails contained classification markings that would have signaled the presence of classified information. Unless Mr. Trump pleads guilty (which seems very unlikely), it will be up to a jury to determine his guilt.

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Biden's private lawyer disclosed on Saturday that DOJ officials turned up classified documents related both to Biden's vice presidency and even his time in the US Senate. Garland's swift announcement came after earlier news that a second batch of classified documents was found on Biden's property. Here, a timeline lays out Biden's involvement with the classified documents — and how it sometimes overlapped with the turmoil around Trump's classified documents probe. January 14: White House says more classified documents were found in Biden's homeAdditional pages of classified documents were found in Biden's Wilmington home in a storage room next to the garage, The New York Times reported. January 21: DOJ finds 6 more pages of classified documents in Biden's homeFederal investigators searched Biden's Wilmington home on Friday and found half a dozen classified documents, according to Biden's personal attorney, Bob Bauer.

☆ FBI searching Pence's home in classified documents probe -Justice Dept official
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Sarah N. Lynch | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - The FBI on Friday conducted a consensual search at the Indianapolis residence of former Vice President Mike Pence, after classified documents were discovered at his house last month, a Justice Department official told Reuters. The search comes just a few weeks after Pence's attorney Greg Jacobs notified the National Archives in a Jan. 18 letter about the discovery of records with classified markings. The search of Pence's home comes as former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden face investigations by two special counsels over the retention of classified records. Biden had an office there after he served as vice president under Barack Obama and before his presidential election. A third search of Biden's Delaware beach home earlier this month did not find any additional documents.

In addition to locating one page with classified markings, the FBI also recovered "six additional pages without such markings that were not discovered in the initial review by the vice president's counsel," he added. The search of Pence's home comes as former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden face investigations by two special counsels over the retention of classified records. The FBI conducted a court-approved search of Trump's Florida estate on Aug. 8, where they collected about 13,000 records, about 100 of which contained classified markings. Biden had an office there after he served as vice president under Barack Obama and before his presidential election. Since then, additional records were also found at Biden's residence in Wilmington.

☆ Classified-Documents Probe Highlights Biden Family’s Deep Ties to Penn
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-04 | by ( Annie Linskey | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The discovery of classified documents from Joe Biden’s vice presidency at a foreign-relations think tank might have surprised many in the country. The fact that the think tank was run by the University of Pennsylvania and bore the president’s name shouldn’t have. For decades, the Ivy League school and the Biden family, across generations, have fostered close relations to their mutual benefit. Those benefits extend beyond the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, where the documents were discovered in November.

☆ FBI Searched Biden’s Former Think-Tank Office in November
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( Sadie Gurman | Aruna Viswanatha | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON—The Federal Bureau of Investigation searched President Biden’s former office at a Washington think tank for classified documents in November, people familiar with the matter said, shortly after his aides earlier that month found such material and surrendered it to the National Archives. The search came after Mr. Biden’s lawyers agreed to let agents search his former office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, where aides on Nov. 2 discovered roughly a dozen documents marked classified. It couldn’t be determined whether investigators found any additional items in the search, which was reported earlier by CBS News.

☆ FBI searched Biden think tank office after classified documents were found last year
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( Emma Kinery | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

FBI agents searched the office President Joe Biden used after his vice presidency in Washington, D.C., in mid-November after his lawyers first discovered classified documents there earlier that month, two senior law enforcement officials told NBC News. Biden's personal lawyers said Justice Department investigators found more than half a dozen additional documents, some marked classified, in the search. The documents discovered range from his Senate tenure to his time as vice president under former President Barack Obama. Former President Donald Trump is also facing a special counsel investigation for failing to turn over classified documents. Last week, it was also reported that Trump's vice president, Mike Pence, also had classified documents in his home in Indiana.

☆ Justice Department Rejects House Request for Records on Joe Biden’s Handling of Classified Documents
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-30 | by ( C. Ryan Barber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Justice Department declined Monday to provide Congress with additional information about classified documents found at President Biden’s home in Delaware and a Washington think-tank office he once used, laying the groundwork for expected clashes with House Republicans as they mount a wide-ranging investigation into federal law enforcement. In a request earlier this month, House Republicans set a Jan. 27 deadline for the department to turn over communications and other records related to the discovery of the documents at the president’s residence and an office he once used at the Penn Biden Center in Washington.

☆ 3 potential frontrunners for the presidency in 2024 are now embroiled in classified documents controversies
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Three potential frontrunner candidates for president are embroiled in classified documents controversies. Classified documents were found in the homes of Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and Mike Pence. Former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden, and former Vice President Mike Pence each improperly stored classified documents. In December 2022, Biden's attorney alerted Lausch that Biden's team found more classified documents near the garage of the president's Wilmington, Delaware home. After going through four boxes at his home, they found the small tranche of classified documents and alerted NARA.

☆ White House tells House Republicans probing Biden documents that it will cooperate with 'legitimate oversight'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Rebecca-Shabad-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Rebecca Shabad | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

WASHINGTON — The White House Counsel's Office said it is reviewing recent requests from a GOP committee chair related to Biden's handling of classified documents and signaled they plan to cooperate to an extent. Delery, however, suggested that there will be a limit to what the White House is willing to share with Congress. To that end, White House staff will reach out to Committee staff to arrange a time to discuss this matter." Delery acknowledged that the FBI conducted a "thorough, consensual search" of Biden's Wilmington residence on Friday after the president's lawyers offered to provide access to his home. Comer's probe is one of two major House Republican investigations into the Biden documents.

☆ Joe Biden’s ‘No Regrets’ Presidency
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

One of President Biden’s political character traits is his manifest disdain for anyone who questions his behavior or judgment. This has been on full public display since the discovery of classified documents at his office and home, and it’s drawing him deeper into a political morass. “I think you’re going to find there’s nothing there,” Mr. Biden said Thursday when asked in California about the documents found at his Penn Biden Center office and in his garage next to his Corvette. “I have no regrets. I’m following what the lawyers have told me they want me to do.

☆ Sen. Joe Manchin criticizes Biden’s handling of classified documents: ‘Irresponsible’
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-22 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Summer-Concepcion-Byline-Jm.Jpg | Summer Concepcion | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., on Sunday criticized President Joe Biden for his handling of classified documents after six additional items were found at the president’s Delaware home. In an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” Manchin called Biden having classified documents in unsecured places “irresponsible” and voiced his support for Attorney General Merrick Garland’s decision to appoint a special counsel to review the materials. Biden, Manchin continued, should own up to making mistakes after batches of classified records were found in recent weeks at his residence and a Washington office he used. Biden's personal attorney said Saturday that six additional items, including documents with classified markings, were found at the president’s home after Justice Department officials searched the residence. The DOJ has appointed special counsel Robert Hur, a former federal prosecutor who has worked with many Republicans throughout his law enforcement career, to oversee the investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents.

☆ Additional classified items found in Biden's Delaware home during Justice Department search, attorney says
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-22 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Dennis-Romero-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Dennis Romero | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Six additional items, including documents with classified markings, were found in President Joe Biden's Delaware home after Department of Justice officials searched the residence Friday, the president's personal attorney said Saturday. Joseph D. Fitzpatrick, assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, said FBI agents conducted the search of Biden's personal property. In June, Trump’s lawyers turned over 38 classified documents, including 17 marked top secret, as well as other material. Special counsel Jack Smith is heading the FBI’s criminal investigation into the handling of the Trump documents. There’s no indication a criminal investigation has been launched into Biden's handling of sensitive documents.

☆ Former Trump DOJ aide says Biden's team should be 'nervous' about classified documents probe because federal prosecutors are like 'hunting dogs' who like to come back 'with something in their mouth'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-22 | by ( Sarah Al-Arshani | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A former Trump aide said Biden's team should be nervous because federal prosecutors are like "hunting dogs." In November, Biden's team found 10 classified documents at Penn Biden Center, a DC think tank, and submitted them to the National Archive. This came as Trump was also being investigated for mishandling classified documents and not turning them over to the National Archives. In December, Biden's team found more documents in the garage of his Delaware home. On January 14, The New York Times reported that another batch of documents was also found in Biden's home.

☆ The Justice Department searched Biden's home and recovered 6 more classified documents
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-22 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Biden's personal attorney said in a statement that "six items" with classified markings were found. Classified documents were previously found in Biden's home and the Penn Biden Center think tank. "Yesterday, DOJ complete a thorough search of all the materials in the President's Wilmington home," Bauer said in the statement. A set of classified documents was previously found at Biden's Delaware home and at the president's Washington think tank, the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement. The president's personal attorneys later disclosed to Lausch that they had found a second set of classified documents in the garage of Biden's Wilmington home on December 20.

☆ GOP Rep. Mike Turner, who suggested Trump took about 300 classified documents to write a memoir, calls Biden a 'serial classified document hoarder'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-22 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

GOP Rep. Mike Turner said President Biden is a "serial classified document hoarder" after more documents were found at his residence. Turner previously suggested Donald Trump had hundreds of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago to help him write a memoir. "Apparently, he's become a serial classified document hoarder," Turner said of Biden Sunday morning on "Face the Nation" on CBS News. I mean the only reason you can think of as to why anyone would take classified documents out of a classified space and home is to show them to somebody." Both incidents have prompted special counsel investigations, but Turner appeared to have more concerns over Biden's classified documents.

☆ Classified-Documents Controversy Brings Spotlight to Penn Biden Center
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-21 | by ( Annie Linskey | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON—The discovery of classified documents in an office used by President Biden after he left the vice presidency has brought attention, and House Republican scrutiny, to a little-known Washington think tank where Mr. Biden had set up operations in between his posts in the White House. The Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, located in a building with a commanding view of the U.S. Capitol, was a key element of Mr. Biden’s initial plans for his post-government career, sketched out in part by his son, Hunter Biden . The elder Mr. Biden and university leaders envisioned it as a place to convene foreign-policy thinkers, spur debates on global affairs, develop leaders and plan speeches and events, according to their public remarks.

☆ FBI finds more classified documents in search of Biden home in Delaware
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-21 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Neither Biden nor first lady Jill Biden was present during the search, according to Richard Sauber, special counsel to the president. The White House only disclosed that discovery on Jan. 9. On Dec. 20, a small number of classified records were found in the garage of Biden's Wilmington home. Friday's search was the first time revealed publicly that federal law enforcement authorities have conducted a search for government documents at Biden's private addresses. Biden and the White House have been criticized for the two-month lag in disclosing the discovery of the first batch of classified documents at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington.

☆ Biden is 'fully cooperating' with DOJ probe of his handling of classified documents, White House says
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Emma Kinery | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The White House disclosed Saturday that Biden's lawyers turned over new classified documents that were discovered at Biden's Delaware home. Last week the White House disclosed that classified government documents from the Obama administration were found in Biden's possession on four separate occasions. Though the documents were found on Nov. 2, the White House did not make the news public until last Monday. Other classified documents were found in Biden's possession at other locations in searches on Dec. 20, Jan. 12 and Jan. 14, according to the White House. Trump is the focus of a criminal probe by the DOJ for his removal of the records from the White House in January 2021.

☆ The ways federal officials from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump — and now Joe Biden — have been accused of mishandling government records
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-15 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

President Joe BidenPresident Joe Biden speaks at the White House on January 12, 2023. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday appointed a special counsel, Robert K. Hur, to investigate Biden for potential mishandling of classified documents. Another State Department investigation that lasted for three years and ended in 2019 found Clinton's use of a private email server put classified information at risk but that there was "no persuasive evidence of systemic, deliberate mishandling of classified information." Berger was found to have smuggled out highly classified documents, destroying some, and lying about possessing them. Lower-profile federal officials are more commonly chargedIn addition to former presidents and top White House officials, lower-profile federal agents are more commonly charged with mishandling government documents.

☆ Utah GOP Rep. Chris Stewart rejects notion that Biden was unaware of classified documents found in his possession: 'It just is nonsense'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-15 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Rep. Stewart rejected the notion that President Biden was unaware of classified documents in his possession. Biden last week said that he did not realize that he was in possession of the Obama-era documents. "I've dealt with classified documents almost my entire life. "This isn't the kind of thing that you just sit on your desk and you think, 'Oh, I forgot that they're classified.' The House Judiciary Committee on Friday announced that it would launch an investigation into the unearthing of the Biden materials.

More classified documents from the Obama administration were found in President Joe Biden’s Delaware residence this week — in addition to the two batches that were previously disclosed — the White House said Saturday. The newest set of pages were discovered by White House lawyer Richard Sauber on Thursday in a box initially uncovered by the president's personal lawyers on Wednesday. The White House revealed earlier this week that Biden's lawyers had discovered one document with classified markings in a room adjacent to the garage of his Delaware home. "The President’s personal attorneys discovered one document with a classified marking consisting of one page in a room adjacent to the garage. At that point, the President’s personal attorneys stopped searching the immediate area where the document was found," Sauber said.

“He’s got to say, ‘I messed up, I apologize,’” said Lanny Davis, who handled various investigations as a lawyer in the Clinton White House. The White House didn’t publicly confirm that documents had been found until Monday, when CBS News reported that a review was underway. A statement from a White House lawyer, Richard Sauber, mentioned only classified material found at the center. We respect that process.”Jennifer Palmieri, who served as communications director in the Obama White House, suggested that any White House press secretary in this position would be in a tough spot in terms of what can be disclosed in the briefing room. “The White House should consider appointing a separate spokesperson to handle all questions related to this matter,” said Karen Finney, a Democratic strategist who also served in the Clinton White House.

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