The House Judiciary Committee is launching an investigation into the discovery of classified documents at President Joe Biden’s former office in Washington, D.C. and his private home in Wilmington, Delaware—including some additional documents that were found on Thursday, the White House reported on Saturday.
Trump ally and now the chair of the powerful committee, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) sent a letter to Attorney General Merick Garland on Friday: “We are conducting oversight of the Justice Department’s actions with respect to former Vice President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents. It added, “We expect your complete cooperation with our inquiry.”
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In a series of bombshell reports, the first batch of classified documents was discovered at the president’s think tank, The Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement on Capitol Hill; just days later, a second batch of documents was discovered in his ‘personal library’ and a storage space in the garage of his Delaware home. In yet another shocking revelation, the New York Times reported on Saturday that additional pages were discovered at Biden’s home on Thursday merely hours after a White House statement had cited only one that had turned up in a storage area.
In a statement on Saturday, special counsel to the president Richard Sauber explained, “The President’s personal attorneys discovered one document with a classified marking consisting of one page in a room adjacent to the garage. At that point, the President’s personal attorneys stopped searching the immediate area where the document was found.”
He added that “five additional pages with classification markings were discovered among the material with it, for a total of six pages. The DOJ officials with me immediately took possession of them. The President’s lawyers have acted immediately and voluntarily to provide the Penn Biden documents to the Archives and the Wilmington documents to DOJ.”
In light of the revelations, Attorney General Garland announced that he is appointing Robert Hur, a former Trump-appointed attorney, as special counsel to oversee the matter. In response, Sauber said in a statement on Thursday: “We have cooperated closely with the Justice Department throughout its review, and we will continue that cooperation with the Special Counsel. 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.”
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