Several former Biden aides interviewed by feds over classified docs: Report
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Several former aides to President Joe Biden during the Obama administration have been reportedly interviewed by federal law enforcement about the classified documents found in Biden’s possession.
Among the aides interviewed was Kathy Chung, who served as then-Vice President Biden’s executive assistant, and now works as deputy director of protocol for Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, NBC reported.
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“The people who were boxing [up the vice presidential office] had no idea that there was anything in there that shouldn’t leave the White House,” a source told NBC. “There was no decision made to take certain documents that should have been presidential records or classified.”
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the appointment of Robert Hur to oversee Justice Department investigations into the matter Thursday. The appointment came after U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois John Lausch advised him to appoint a special counsel similar to Jack Smith, who is spearheading the DOJ’s investigations into the classified documents found at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
Earlier in the day, the White House confirmed Thursday that a second batch of files with classified markings was found in his Wilmington, Delaware garage.
The discovery of the second tranche came after Biden’s lawyers conducted a search of the president’s Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, residences in the wake of a classified document discovery at a Biden-aligned think tank on Nov. 2. The search at Rehoboth yielded no classified material, said White House counsel Richard Sauber.
Sauber revealed that the review was finished by Wednesday evening. Biden has maintained that he is “cooperating fully” with federal officials.
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Earlier this week a report revealed that Biden’s lawyers flagged material with classified documents while clearing out a closet in the president’s old office space at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, a foreign policy-focused think tank.
About 10 documents were found in the first batch, featuring intelligence on Iran, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom dated from 2013 to 2016, and reportedly entailed “sensitive compartmented information.”
Biden periodically utilized the office space from 2017 until the start of his 2020 campaign as part of his honorary professorship at the University of Pennsylvania, which is associated with the think tank. Presidents and vice presidents are mandated to relinquish presidential documents to the National Archives and Records Administration at the end of administrations under the Presidential Records Act.
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Meanwhile, Trump is facing a special counsel investigation from Jack Smith over the roughly 300 documents with classified markings found at his Mar-a-Lago resort, as well as an inquiry surrounding the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Trump has denied wrongdoing and bashed Biden over his classified document controversy.