Attorney General Merrick Garland tasked the U.S. attorney in Chicago with a review of classified documents recovered from Joe Biden’s office at a Washington-based think tank.
“Citing two sources familiar with the inquiry, CBS News reported the federal prosecutor’s office is reviewing approximately 10 documents found by Biden’s personal attorneys at his vice-presidential office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement.
The sensitive materials were reportedly found while the personal attorneys prepared to vacate the office space. The classified documents were said to have been located alongside other unclassified papers.
The documents were identified on November 2nd and reported to the National Archives on the same day, the report said, adding that the National Archives took possession of the documents the next day and notified the Justice Department.
Garland tasked U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois John Lausch, a nominee of former U.S. President Donald Trump, with determining how the classified documents ended up at the think tank, the report added.
Lausch recently reportedly briefed Garland on the matter, with plans to submit a final report to the attorney general in the future. Lausch’s review is expected to wrap up shortly.
Biden was made aware of the classified documents in November and remains unaware of their contents, the report said. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has also been informed of the inquiry.
The inquiry comes following a raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence last year as part of a probe into his post-presidential handling of classified documents. U.S. courts have denied Trump’s attempts to block the use of the materials in federal probes against him, which he has condemned as a weaponization of the U.S. justice system”. -Sputnik News
Aside from the fact that this so-called “think tank” received fifty-four million dollars in funding from the CCP, unlike the commander and chief, the vice president does not have the authority to declassify classified documents.
The fun will begin once the focus shifts toward the Clinton Foundation.
All the classified documents they mishandled during the Obama administration, including those infamous 33,000 emails, are finally beginning to be brought to light.