Potentially classified files found at Biden’s private office
The White House has confirmed that the US justice department is reviewing potentially classified documents found in Joe Biden’s former office at a think tank.
About 10 of the files were discovered in a locked closet at the Penn Biden Center in Washington in November by Mt Biden’s legal team, said his lawyer.
The batch has been handed to the National Archives.
Former president Donald Trump is facing his own probe for taking classified files to Flordia after his presidency.
The FBI is involved in the inquiry into classified documents found at the Penn Biden Center, and US Attorney General Merrick Garland has been asked to review the papers, according to CBS News.
A source told the US news site that the batch did not contain nuclear secrets and had been contained in a folder in a box with other unclassified papers.
The files were found just before the midterm elections by Biden attorneys who were clearing out the office space, Richard Sauber, special counsel to President Biden, told to CBS.
President Biden kept an office at the think tank – about a mile from the White House, from 2017 to 2020.
Mr Sauber said: “Since that discovery [of the documents], the president’s personal attorneys have co-operated with the [National] Archives and the Department of Justice in a process to ensure that any Obama-Biden Administration records are appropriately in the possession of the Archives.”
Donald Trump reacts
Former president Donald Trump took to his social media site – Truth Social, asking: “When is the FBI going to raid the many homes of Joe Biden, perhaps even the White House?”
Trump is under investigation for allegedly resisting requests to give back about 300 classified documents he took to Mar-a-Kago after leaving the White House.
The National Archives tipped off the authorities in the case.
President Biden reacted to photo showing the documents recovered at Mar-a-Lago, by telling CBS: “How anyone could be that irresponsible?”
