Washington – Republican Rep. Mike Turner, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday that President Biden has documents at his home in Delaware bearing the classification marks of his time as vice president and senator. said no.
“This is a really important question. Why did he have these documents in the first place?” Turner said in an interview with “Face the Nation.” “That’s why the special counsel’s job is so important, because I can’t see why the president, as a senator or vice president, should have taken home classified documents that were clearly unprotected. They’re available and available to everyone. ”
Biden’s personal attorney, Bob Bauer, said Saturday, 6 items left A classified and marked object was found during a consensual search of the president’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, conducted by the FBI on Friday.
Bauer said that in addition to the records of Biden’s senatorial and vice presidential years, federal investigators took handwritten notes for further scrutiny.
The discovery of Friday’s records is the first since early November, when Biden’s attorneys uncovered about 10 classified documents dating back to his days as vice president in the former office of the Penn-Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington. The latest. He then raided the president’s Wilmington home on December 20 and found second batch A number of garage records were found, and a total of 6 pages of documents marked confidential while searching of his private library.
A source familiar with the investigation told CBS News that the total number of known classified documents discovered since November is between 25 and 30.
In response to the Penn-Biden Center and the initial discovery of Mr. Biden’s Wilmington home, Attorney General Merrick Garland said appointed a special adviserformer federal prosecutor Robert Herr, oversaw the examination of the materials.
Turner told Face the Nation that determining why Biden had the documents and to whom he showed them would be “important” to the Herr investigation.
“The chain of custody here is going to be important because these are in Joe Biden’s hands, under Joe Biden’s control, and then in his garage and office in the back of his Corvette. , because we know he wasn’t in control.So the Special Counsel must address the following questions.What were the custody rights?Who had these? Why did he bring them out? When did he get them? When did he hand over these papers? And what did he do to them?” The Ohio Republican expected to serve as chairman said:
Republicans have criticized Mr. Biden’s handling of classified documents, with Mr. Turner calling the president “a stockpile of classified documents.” Deletion and storage of confidential information in unauthorized locations and allegations of unlawful concealment or deletion of government records.
Republican-led House Oversight Committee started an investigation Documents found in Mr. Biden’s property said the Judiciary Committee plan to investigate The Justice Department’s response to Biden and Trump.
Turner asked Director of National Intelligence Avril Haynes for damage assessment Briefing on documents and actions from Mr. Biden’s Vice President. He said on Sunday that he had not received a response from intelligence agencies.
In Trump’s case, more than 300 classified-marked documents were found at his South Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago, as the National Archives and Records Administration attempted to recover records from the Trump presidency. over a year.
During the controversy, the Justice Department obtained a grand jury subpoena in May stating that Trump possessed all classified documents at Mar-a-Lago and that the classified documents were still on its property. Mar-a-Lago in early August after discovering evidence showing.
Garland appointed special counsel Jack Smith to take over a Justice Department investigation into Trump’s handling of classified government documents in November.
The White House has stressed that Biden has and will continue to cooperate with the Justice Department’s investigation. Bauer said on Saturday the president and his personal attorney offered to “quickly enter” his Wilmington home so that the Justice Department could search the entire building for the vice president’s records and classified documents. Stated.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-documents-mike-turner-intelligence-committee-face-the-nation/ Republican Rep. Mike Turner ‘can’t think of a reason’ for Biden to classify documents at home