.....when he was VP.......found in a 'private office'......uh oh......!!!


Classified documents from Biden’s time as VP discovered in private office, source says

....Several classified documents from President Joe Biden’s time as vice president were discovered last fall in a private office, a source with knowledge of the matter tells CNN.

The National Archives has referred the matter to the Justice Department for further investigation, the source told CNN.

Biden’s lawyers found the government materials in November while closing out a Washington, DC-based office that Biden used as part of his relationship with the University of Pennsylvania, where he was an honorary professor from 2017 to 2019, the source said.

Fewer than a dozen classified documents were found at Biden’s office, the source said. It is unclear what the documents pertain to or why they were taken to Biden’s private office. Federal officeholders are required by law to relinquish official documents and classified records when their government service ends.

“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,” Richard Sauber, special counsel to President Biden, said in a statement. “The documents were discovered when the President’s personal attorneys were packing files housed in a locked closet to prepare to vacate office space at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C. The President periodically used this space from mid-2017 until the start of the 2020 campaign. On the day of this discovery, November 2, 2022, the White House Counsel’s Office notified the National Archives. The Archives took possession of the materials the following morning.”

“The discovery of these documents was made by the President’s attorneys,” Sauber added. “The documents were not the subject of any previous request or inquiry by the Archives. 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.”

CBS News first reported on the documents.

The classified materials included some top-secret files with the “sensitive compartmented information” designation, also known as SCI, which is used for highly sensitive information obtained from intelligence sources.

After the discovery, Biden’s lawyers immediately contacted the National Archives and Records Administration, which started looking into the matter, the source said. Biden’s team cooperated with NARA, which later came to view the situation as a mistake due to lack of safeguards for documents, the source said.

The discovery of the materials come as special counsel Jack Smith is investigating former President Donald Trump for potentially mishandling classified records at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. Federal investigators have recovered at least 325 classified documents from Trump as part of their inquiry.

In November, NARA sent a referral to the Justice Department to investigate the matter, a source with knowledge of the situation told CNN.

Ever since the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago in August – a search that uncovered dozens of additional classified files – Trump has promoted wild and unfounded allegations about his predecessors’ supposed mishandling of government records. The news about classified records turning up at Biden’s private office is sure to provide new fodder to Trump, who has already announced his 2024 presidential bid.

Biden was critical of Trump when he saw the photograph taken by the FBI that showed an array of documents found on Trump’s property last summer.

“How that could possibly happen? How one – anyone could be that irresponsible?” Biden said. “And I thought what data was in there that may compromise sources and methods? By that I mean names of people who helped or, et cetera. … totally irresponsible.”


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False equivalence reporting at its finest.

Trump had boxes and boxes, purposely hauled it off, stonewalled inquires.

Biden's team finds a few papers, immediately turns them in.

CNN: BOTH SIDES ARE BAD.

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False equivalence reporting at its finest.

Trump had boxes and boxes, purposely hauled it off, stonewalled inquires.

Biden's team finds a few papers, immediately turns them in.

CNN: BOTH SIDES ARE BAD.

It's not about the substance, it's about appearance and ability to muddy the waters. The office was at was at U of Pennsylvania which also paid Joe about a million $ over that time period and it doesn't appear he did any teaching or academic work for them.

Out of curiosity, how does one walk off with TS/SCI (Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information) materials?
At all the places I've been, things at that classification level are VERY tightly controlled (i.e. you have to sign them out, with a logbook showing who, exactly, signed them out - and those materials cannot leave the SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility); so if someone had signed out an item and left the SCIF (people are also logged in and out of SCIFs) without signing a TS/SCI classified thing back in, it would be immediately noticed - with a log showing who, exactly, signed for it).

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False equivalence reporting at its finest.

Trump had boxes and boxes, purposely hauled it off, stonewalled inquires.

Biden's team finds a few papers, immediately turns them in.

CNN: BOTH SIDES ARE BAD.

It's not about the substance, it's about appearance and ability to muddy the waters. The office was at was at U of Pennsylvania which also paid Joe about a million $ over that time period and it doesn't appear he did any teaching or academic work for them.

Not clear what your interpretation is here. CNN wants to make Biden look hypocritical, or Biden is hypocritical and this is meaningful reportage?

Or is this the ever-popular 3rd option, which that the reportage is a nothingburger AND we’re nevertheless afraid of what Biden’s critics will say?

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False equivalence reporting at its finest.

Trump had boxes and boxes, purposely hauled it off, stonewalled inquires.

Biden's team finds a few papers, immediately turns them in.

CNN: BOTH SIDES ARE BAD.

It's not about the substance, it's about appearance and ability to muddy the waters. The office was at was at U of Pennsylvania which also paid Joe about a million $ over that time period and it doesn't appear he did any teaching or academic work for them.

Not clear what your interpretation is here. CNN wants to make Biden look hypocritical, or Biden is hypocritical and this is meaningful reportage?

Or is this the ever-popular 3rd option, which that the reportage is a nothingburger AND we’re nevertheless afraid of what Biden’s critics will say?

No interpretation, just my initial reaction to the story.

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False equivalence reporting at its finest.

Trump had boxes and boxes, purposely hauled it off, stonewalled inquires.

Biden's team finds a few papers, immediately turns them in.

CNN: BOTH SIDES ARE BAD.

This is exactly my interpretation as well. There's a huge difference between what Trump did and what Biden may or may not have done.

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Likely state secrets that would've been found on Hunter Biden's computer. The nutcases in GQP are already foaming in their underwear.

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Well, it certainly complicates/deters prosecuting Trump for his mismanagement, despite the circumstances of the latter being orders of magnitude worse.

ITMF

Maybe Brandon de-classified them, oh, wait.......

Biden disclosed and turned them over where your boy lied, covered up and refused to give them up. That'd be an equivalency to a weak mind.

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Biden disclosed and turned them over where your boy lied, covered up and refused to give them up. That'd be an equivalency to a weak mind.

We have tuned over all of the documents, oh, except these we found, so now we have turned dover all of them. Oh, wait, we found more, and since I was VP, I cannot declassify them like Trump did, and since I forgot I had them and stored them in my locked garage, I was not required to provide adequate security for these classified documents.

No, I don't remember what the documents were, I can't remember what I ate for dinner last night, or who the President is, the black lady, right?

Biden can declassify them now. Why doesn't he? Is it perhaps because he is a man of integrity who will acknowledge his error?