Experts say the discovery of classified documents at Pres. Biden's Delaware home and at an old Washington office of his at the Penn Biden Center has put AG Merrick Garland in the middle of two 'unprecedented' special counsel investigations.
Biden's attorneys have cast the discovery of the classified documents at his home and office as an inadvertent "mistake."
"It's an enormous amount of pressure upon the attorney general," said Sarah Krissoff, a former federal prosecutor in New York and current defense attorney.In both cases, it also remains unclear how the materials at issue could affect national security. Lawmakers in Congress expect to be briefed on their contents and have asked for an intelligence assessment of the documents.
According to court documents and public statements, Biden and Trump's teams seem to have responded to the government with much different levels of cooperation regarding their classified documents: The National Archives said it negotiated with Trump's team throughout 2021 to retrieve 15 boxes taken from the White House, finally receiving them in January 2022 and alerting the DOJ to investigate that February, resulting in the discovery of further classified materials.
The special counsel investigations are likely to play out in the background of the 2024 race. Trump has already announced his candidacy, and Biden has said it's his intention to run for a second term but hasn't made an official decision.
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