BREAKING: A 'small number of documents' with classified markings found at a think tank in Washington, D.C., tied to President Biden, have been turned over to the Dept. of Justice for review.
A “small number of documents” with classified markings that appear to be from the Obama administration were found at a think tank in Washington, D.C., tied to President Joe Biden and are under review by the Justice Department and National Archives, a White House lawyer said Monday.
The documents were discovered in a locked closet by Biden’s attorneys days before the midterm elections as they prepared to vacate office space at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, Richard Sauber, special counsel to the president said in a statement.
A source familiar with the matter confirmed that Attorney General Merrick Garland asked the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, John R. Lausch, to review the matter of how classified material ended up at the Penn Biden Center. The review was intentionally assigned to Lausch, a holdover Trump appointee, to avoid any conflict of interest, the source said.
According to Sauber, the classified material was discovered on Nov. 2 by Biden's personal attorneys, and the White House Counsel’s Office notified the National Archives, which took possession of the materials the following morning. “The documents were not the subject of any previous request or inquiry by the Archives," Sauber said."Since that discovery, the President’s personal attorneys have cooperated with the 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.”
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