american president Joe Biden is this Thursday in trouble after the discovery of classified documents in one of his housesat a time when donald trump He is in the crosshairs of justice for the way in which he managed his presidential files.
In the United States, a 1978 law requires presidents and vice presidents to send all their emails, letters, and other business documents to National Archives.
Biden was quick to assure that “fully cooperate” with justice, but the Republican opposition fears that it will receive favorable treatment and calls for the opening of a parliamentary investigation.
“A small number” of classified documents dating to when Joe Biden was vice president of Barack Obama They have been found at the private residence in Wilmington, in the state of Delaware, the White House reported on Thursday, detailed AFP.
They were in the garage and in an adjoining room, explained in a statement the lawyer for the presidency, Richard Sauber, who assured that this was immediately reported to the Department of Justice to take possession of the files.
On Monday, Biden already acknowledged that a dozen classified documents were found at the Penn Biden Centera think tank in Washington where he had an office.
dozens of boxes
The opposition denounces unequal treatment.
“It’s another misstep by the Biden administration that (…) treats President Trump one way and President Biden another”, said the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, who believes that “Congress should investigate this case”.
When he left the White House in January 2021, the former Republican president took boxes with documents. When they asked him to return them, he delivered 15 in January 2022.
But federal police estimated that he probably had more at his luxurious Mar-a-Lago residence.
FBI agents searched it on August 8 for “withholding classified documents” and “obstructing a federal investigation,” and seized about thirty other boxes.
A legal battle was then opened to determine the nature of the seized documents (classified? personal? declassified?) which slowed down the procedure.
But Trump, who announced he would run in the 2024 presidential election, remains under threat of federal indictment.
Garland appointed a special prosecutor to oversee this investigation, and others into Trump’s role in the January 6, 2021 storming of the Capitol.
“Next to the Corvette”
Although it is not the same amount of documents, this Thursday discontent among Democrats was palpable.
“Remember how the left reacted when President Trump took the so-called ‘confidential’ documents home? today is very quiet”, commented the Republican congressman Jim Jordan, a stalwart of the magnate.
The president himself was on the defensive.
“Classified documents next to your Corvette, but who comes up with it?” asked a journalist from the conservative channel foxnews.
The president replied that he would speak “soon, God willing” on the subject. “Also, my Corvette is in a closed garage. (…) It’s not like I was on the streetadded the 80-year-old Democrat, referring to his favorite car, a bottle-green convertible dating from the 1960s.
inadvertently displaced
Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a independent prosecutor to investigate these classified documents found in an old office and in a private residence of Biden.
Garland, who has already delegated investigations into Trump to an independent prosecutor, entrusted this new mission to Robert Hur, a former federal prosecutor who has tried both gang crimes and drug trafficking as well as corruption and fraud cases.
The appointment underscores his department’s commitment “to the independence of the judiciary in particularly sensitive cases, and its commitment to making decisions guided solely by the facts and the law,” he said in a speech.
In addition, Richard Sauber, a White House lawyer, assured that the president “will cooperate” with the special prosecutor.
“We are confident that a thorough review will show that these documents were inadvertently displaced, and the president and his lawyers acted quickly upon discovering this error”, he said in a statement.
Clinton’s emails
The handling of confidential information through unofficial channels has also put the former Secretary of State in trouble in the past. Hillary Clintonwho contravened official regulations during his tenure from 2009 to 2013, by using his personal email account instead of a government account, potentially exposing confidential information to hackers.
This situation affected Clinton’s presidential candidacy, who even apologized for what she herself described as a mistake, although she stated that she had not committed any illegality.
More than 2,000 emails were later categorized as classified or containing confidential or secret information, prompting fierce criticism of the former first lady and senator from her adversaries, alleging that she put national security at risk. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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