Richard Sauber, special counsel to the president, said in a statement that Biden was notified about the documents after they were found at the think tank.
“The White House is cooperating with the National Archives and the Department of Justice regarding the discovery of what appear to be Obama-Biden Administration records, including a small number of documents with classified markings,” Sauber said.
President Joe Biden.Susan Walsh/AP/Shutterstock
Republicans were quick to respond to the news, reminding Americans ofhow Biden reactedwhen missing classified documents were found at former PresidentDonald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property.
But the documents did not contain nuclear secretslike the ones found in Mar-a-Lago, and were contained in a folder that was in a box with other unclassified papers, sources told CBS News.
Joe Biden (left) and Donald Trump.Alex Wong/Getty; SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty
Rep. James Comer, chair of the House Oversight Committee,told CNNhe would send a letter to the Archives within the next 48 hours regarding the matter.
“President Biden has been very critical of President Trump mistakenly taking classified documents to the residence or wherever and now it seems he may have done the same,” Comer said. “How ironic.”
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In a sit-down with60 Minutesin September, Biden remarked about the hundreds of documents that have been found at Trump’s Florida resort, saying at the time that he was left wondering “how that could possibly happen” and “how anyone could be that irresponsible.”
“I thought, ‘What data was in there that may compromise sources and methods?'” Biden said. “It’s just totally irresponsible.”
Biden’s aides assert there is a fundamental difference between the two situations, and that the president’s team quickly reacted once the documents were found.
“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,” Sauber said.
source: people.com
