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government officials of USA They found another six confidential documents in the family residence of Joe Biden in a new twist in a case already very embarrassing for the US president.
“The Department of Justice took possession of materials it considered to be within the scope of its investigation, including six (…) documents marked as classified,” said Bob Bauerpersonal lawyer of Bidenin a statement released Saturday.
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He specified that the files in question correspond to two phases of the political life of the 80-year-old democrat: on the one hand, to his extensive career of more than 30 years as a senator from Delaware, and on the other to his period as vice president of Barack Obama, between 2009 and 2017.
The search lasted more than 12 hours and included “all work, living and storage spaces in the home”, Bauer said.
“The Department of Justice had full access to the President’s home, including personally handwritten notes, files, papers, folders, memorabilia, to-do lists, schedules, and reminders.”said.
This new discovery adds to a series of small revelations in recent days, which have put the White House in a very delicate position.
Bidenthrough his lawyers, already admitted on January 9 that confidential documents they had been discovered in November at a think tank in Washington, where he had an office.
Later, the Democratic president admitted on January 12 that other confidential files had been found at his home in Wilmington, Delaware.
A 1978 law, however, requires US presidents and vice presidents to send all their emails, letters and other working documents to the National Archives.
The case is especially sensitive for Biden, who is considering running for re-election in 2024.
“I do not regret”
During a trip to California a few days ago, Biden tried to minimize the clamor around the discovery of these documents.
“Listen, we found some documents (…) that were stored in the wrong place, we immediately turned them over to the Archives and the Department of Justice. We are fully cooperating and look forward to resolving this quickly.” he told reporters who asked him about this issue.
“I don’t regret it,” he said..
His lawyers say that it was “without realizing it” that Biden took these sensitive files, and underline that it fully cooperates with justice.
The White House said earlier batches of documents were turned over to the Justice Department and to the National Archives as soon as they were found.
The objective of the White House is clear: to distinguish itself as much as possible from the former president donald trumpwho has already embarked on a new run for the White House and is under investigation for bringing several boxes of official documents to his Florida residence and for his alleged obstruction of government efforts to recover them.
Although the two cases are not entirely comparable, the issue is dangerous for Bidenwho presents himself as a rigorous and rule-abiding president after the scandal-filled years of the presidency of Trump.
Both in the case of the Republican Trump as in the democrat BidenThe Justice Department, anxious to avoid any accusations of bias, entrusted the investigation of the confidential documents to two special prosecutors.
Source: Elcomercio
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