WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick Garland, on Thursday, appointed a special counsel to investigate the presence of documents with classified markings found at President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Del., and at an office in Washington.
The announcement followed Biden’s acknowledgment, Thursday morning, that a document with classified markings from his time as vice president was found in his personal library, along with other classified documents found in his garage. Garland said Biden’s lawyers informed the Justice Department, Thursday morning, of the discovery of a classified document at Biden’s home, after FBI agents first retrieved other documents from the garage, in December. It was disclosed, on Monday, that sensitive documents were found at the office of his former institute in Washington.
Robert Hur, the former Trump-appointed US attorney in Maryland, will lead the investigation, taking over from the top Justice Department prosecutor in Chicago, John Lausch, who was earlier assigned by the department to investigate the matter and who recommended to Garland, last week, that a special counsel be appointed. Hur is to begin his work soon.
“The extraordinary circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel for this matter,” Garland said, adding that Hur is authorized to investigate whether any person or entity violated the law.
“This appointment underscores for the public the department’s commitment to both independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters, and to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law,” Garland said.
Biden told reporters at the White House that he was “cooperating fully and completely” with a Justice Department investigation into how classified information and government records were stored.
“We have cooperated closely with the Justice Department throughout its review, and we will continue that cooperation with the special counsel,” said Richard Sauber, himself a special counsel to the president. “We are confident that a thorough review will show that these documents were inadvertently misplaced, and the president and his lawyers acted promptly upon discovery of this mistake.”
Biden’s lawyers found the first set of documents in a locked closet in the offices of the Biden Penn Center in Washington, on Nov. 2, just before the midterm elections, but publicly revealed that development only, on Monday.
Sauber said that after Biden’s personal lawyers found the initial documents, they examined other locations where records might have been shipped after Biden left the vice presidency, in 2017.
Biden did not say when the latest documents were found at his home, only that his lawyers’ review of potential storage locations was completed, Wednesday night.
Sauber said a “small number” with classified markings were found in a storage space in Biden’s garage in Wilmington, with one document being located in an adjacent room. Biden later revealed that the other location was his personal library.
Garland said Biden attorneys located documents in the Wilmington garage, on Dec. 20, and that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents took custody of them shortly thereafter. The Justice Department was informed, only on Thursday, of the latest found by Biden’s lawyers.
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Biden (the Pedophile) has sold America out to the Chinese, and they have a Chinese D.A. GArland just seems like a Pedophile to me (IMHO) I wonder if Garland and Biden are co-owners in a van together...loaded with Candy.
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