FBI searches Biden’s vacation home; no classified documents
1 year, 10 months ago

FBI searches Biden’s vacation home; no classified documents

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The FBI searched President Joe Biden’s vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Wednesday without turning up any classified documents, the latest turn in an extraordinary series of searches of his and his predecessor’s properties. On Wednesday, Biden’s personal attorney Bob Bauer said FBI agents authorized by the Department of Justice spent three and a half hours searching the president’s beach home and that “no documents with classified markings were found.” In a statement disclosing the search, Bauer sought to portray Biden and his team as fully transparent and cooperative. He described the search as “planned” and “a further step in a thorough and timely DOJ process we will continue to fully support and facilitate.” He did not mention Trump by name, but the statement seemed aimed at juxtaposing the Biden investigation with the Trump case, where months of fruitless Justice Department efforts to recover all the classified records taken to the former president’s Florida estate culminated in the August search warrant and removal of nearly three dozen boxes of documents and other items. The White House did not disclose the Justice Department’s investigation until last month, when it acknowledged the Nov. 2 discovery of a “small number” of classified documents by Biden lawyers as they closed an office at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank affiliated with the Ivy League school.

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FBI Director Christopher Wray says he will resign at end of Biden's term
Top News
1 week, 5 days ago

FBI Director Christopher Wray says he will resign at end of Biden's term

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — FBI Director Christopher Wray told bureau workers Wednesday that he plans to resign at the end of President Joe Biden’s term in January, an announcement that came a week and a half after President-elect Donald Trump said he would nominate loyalist Kash Patel for the job. Wray said at a town hall meeting that he would be stepping …

Trump lawyers in classified docs case ask judge to suppress evidence seized during Mar-a-Lago search
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Trump lawyers in classified docs case ask judge to suppress evidence seized during Mar-a-Lago search

Associated Press  

FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Lawyers for Donald Trump on Tuesday asked the judge presiding over his classified documents case to prevent prosecutors from using as evidence boxes of records seized during an FBI search of his Florida estate. The arguments marked the conclusion of a three-day hearing in which prosecutors and defense lawyers have sparred over topics ranging from the …

Congressional hearing on Biden classified documents probe turns into proxy campaign battle
9 months, 1 week ago

Congressional hearing on Biden classified documents probe turns into proxy campaign battle

LA Times  

Lawmakers turned a hearing on President Biden’s handling of classified documents into a proxy battle between the Democratic president and Republican front-runner Donald Trump on Tuesday, as a newly released transcript of Biden’s testimony last fall showed that he repeatedly insisted he never meant to retain classified information after he left the vice presidency. California’s Rep. Tom McClintock called it …

Biden forms task force to avoid mishandling of classified documents during presidential transitions
10 months, 1 week ago

Biden forms task force to avoid mishandling of classified documents during presidential transitions

The Hindu  

U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday launched a task force aimed at addressing the "systemic" problem of mishandling classified information during presidential transitions, days after a Justice Department special counsel's sharply critical report said he had done just that. The Presidential Records Transition Task Force will study past transitions to determine best practices for safeguarding classified information from an outgoing …

Biden and Trump: How the two classified documents investigations came to different endings
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Biden and Trump: How the two classified documents investigations came to different endings

Associated Press  

Follow AP for live coverage of Hur’s testimony. BIDEN: FBI agents found classified documents about Afghanistan in Biden’s Delaware garage in 2022, along with drafts of a handwritten memo Biden sent to President Barack Obama to persuade Obama not to send more troops into the country, Hur’s report said. Investigators said the notebooks included national security and foreign policy information …

EXPLAINER | Biden and Trump: How the two classified documents investigations came to different endings
10 months, 2 weeks ago

EXPLAINER | Biden and Trump: How the two classified documents investigations came to different endings

New Indian Express  

Classified documents were found in a damaged cardboard box in President Joe Biden's cluttered Delaware garage, near where golf clubs hung on the wall. In Biden's case, special counsel Robert Hur, a former U.S. attorney for Maryland nominated by Trump, concluded in a report released Thursday that the president should not face criminal charges, despite finding evidence that Biden willfully …

In pictures: Classified documents found in Biden’s garage and home
10 months, 2 weeks ago

In pictures: Classified documents found in Biden’s garage and home

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Black notebooks containing sensitive information open image in gallery Notebooks seized from Biden’s Delaware …

Biden 'willfully' disclosed classified materials, but no criminal charges warranted: Special Counsel
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Biden 'willfully' disclosed classified materials, but no criminal charges warranted: Special Counsel

The Hindu  

President Joe Biden “willfully” retained and disclosed highly classified materials when he was a private citizen, including documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan and other sensitive national security matters, according to a Justice Department report that nonetheless says no criminal charges are warranted for him or anyone else. “Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and …

Biden retained classified documents ‘willfully’, finds independent probe; yet, no charges
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Biden retained classified documents ‘willfully’, finds independent probe; yet, no charges

Hindustan Times  

President Joe Biden “willfully” retained and disclosed highly classified materials when he was a private citizen, including documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan and other sensitive national security matters, according to a Justice Department report that nonetheless says no criminal charges are warranted for him or anyone else. Hur’s report says evidence suggests that many of the classified …

Special counsel investigating Biden’s handling of classified documents has completed probe, AG says
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Special counsel investigating Biden’s handling of classified documents has completed probe, AG says

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department special counsel investigating President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents has completed his inquiry and a report is expected to be released soon to Congress and the public, Attorney General Merrick Garland told lawmakers in a letter Wednesday. Though the probe’s outcome is expected to lift a legal cloud over Biden, criticism of his handling …

Biden interview in special counsel documents investigation suggests sprawling probe near conclusion
1 year, 2 months ago

Biden interview in special counsel documents investigation suggests sprawling probe near conclusion

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s interview with prosecutors over his handling of classified documents signals that a sprawling investigation that has included questioning of some of his closest aides and at least one cabinet member is nearing a conclusion. And Republican front-runner Donald Trump, indicted by a different Justice Department special counsel over his own mishandling of classified documents, has …

After Trump, US President Joe Biden questioned over classified documents found at his home
1 year, 2 months ago

After Trump, US President Joe Biden questioned over classified documents found at his home

India TV News  

Amid the Middle East tensions, a major development took place in the US where President Joe Biden was interviewed as part of an independent investigation into his handling of classified documents. The highly sensitive documents were found at his Delaware home, as well as at a private office that he used in between his service in the Obama administration and …

Biden interviewed as part of the special counsel investigation into handling of classified documents
1 year, 2 months ago

Biden interviewed as part of the special counsel investigation into handling of classified documents

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has been interviewed as part of an independent investigation into his handling of classified documents, the White House said late Monday. The investigation into Biden is separate from special counsel Jack Smith’s probe into the handling of classified documents by former President Donald Trump after he left the White House. “There’s no there there.” In …

Trump indictment unsealed: The classified documents are shockingly sensitive—and their mishandling is even more dangerous for national security than we thought.
1 year, 6 months ago

Trump indictment unsealed: The classified documents are shockingly sensitive—and their mishandling is even more dangerous for national security than we thought.

Slate  

Former President Donald Trump’s indictment, which was unsealed Friday afternoon, is even more shocking than his lawyers suggested in advance. As another former president, Barack Obama, once said, “There’s classified, and there’s classified.” By that measure, many of the documents that Trump took with him from the White House were classified—italicized and boldfaced. In other words, some of these documents—as …

GOP subpoenas FBI for Biden records; WH denounces ‘innuendo’
1 year, 7 months ago

GOP subpoenas FBI for Biden records; WH denounces ‘innuendo’

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A top House Republican subpoenaed FBI Director Chris Wray on Wednesday for what he claimed are bureau records related to President Joe Biden and his family, basing the demand on newly surfaced allegations he said an unnamed whistleblower made to Congress. The White House said it was the latest example in the yearslong series of “unfounded, unproven” political …

AP source: FBI searched U. of Delaware in Biden docs probe
1 year, 10 months ago

AP source: FBI searched U. of Delaware in Biden docs probe

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The FBI searched the University of Delaware in recent weeks for classified documents as part of its investigation into the potential mishandling of sensitive government records by President Joe Biden. Biden’s personal lawyers disclosed in January that a small batch of documents with classified markings had been found weeks earlier in his former Washington office, and they have …

FBI finds another classified document at home of Mike Pence
1 year, 10 months ago

FBI finds another classified document at home of Mike Pence

Firstpost  

Pence’s spokesman Devin O’Malley said in a statement that agents had turned up the material in a ’thorough and unrestricted’ five-hour search of the Carmel, Indiana house, conducted with Pence’s consent Washington: The FBI found an additional classified document at the property of former vice president Mike Pence on Friday, two weeks after the Republican acknowledged having a “small number” …

New classified document found in FBI search of Pence home
1 year, 10 months ago

New classified document found in FBI search of Pence home

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The FBI discovered an additional document with classified markings at former Vice President Mike Pence ’s Indiana home during a search Friday, following the discovery by his lawyers last month of sensitive government documents there. Pence adviser Devin O’Malley said the Department of Justice completed “a thorough and unrestricted search of five hours” and removed “one document with …

FBI finds classified document during search of Mike Pence’s home
1 year, 10 months ago

FBI finds classified document during search of Mike Pence’s home

Al Jazeera  

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation has found one additional document with classified markings during a search of former US Vice President Mike Pence’s residence, a Pence adviser said. Pence adviser Devin O’Malley said on Friday that the US Department of Justice had removed “one document with classified markings and six additional pages without such markings that were not …

Biden's Handwritten Notes Part Of Classified Docs Probe
1 year, 10 months ago

Biden's Handwritten Notes Part Of Classified Docs Probe

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is a man who writes down his thoughts. I need to slow down, ramp down my schedule.’” It’s unknown whether handwritten notes may have been turned over to the Department of Justice by former Vice President Mike Pence or whether any of former President Donald Trump’s writings from his time in office …

Biden’s handwritten notes part of classified docs probe
1 year, 10 months ago

Biden’s handwritten notes part of classified docs probe

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is a man who writes down his thoughts. I need to slow down, ramp down my schedule.’” It’s unknown whether handwritten notes may have been turned over to the Department of Justice by former Vice President Mike Pence or whether any of former President Donald Trump’s writings from his time in office was found during …

Biden approval steady after document discovery: AP-NORC Poll
1 year, 10 months ago

Biden approval steady after document discovery: AP-NORC Poll

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — More U.S. adults disapprove than approve of the way President Joe Biden has handled the discovery of classified documents at his home and former office, a new poll shows, but that seems to have had little impact on his overall approval rating. “To me, it seems like he’s doing the right things, and this happens, people have these …

Joe Biden FBI search, classified documents and his son: What we know so far
1 year, 10 months ago

Joe Biden FBI search, classified documents and his son: What we know so far

Hindustan Times  

The US Justice Department did not find classified documents during a search of President Joe Biden's house in Delaware, his lawyer said. Joe Biden FBI Search: US President Joe Biden is seen, “No documents with classified markings were found. The issue has escalated into a political headache for Joe Biden as the Democrats have previously targeted former US president Donald …

No classified documents found during search of Biden's home, says attorney
1 year, 10 months ago

No classified documents found during search of Biden's home, says attorney

Hindustan Times  

The U.S. Justice Department did not find documents with classified markings during a three-and-a-half hour search of President Joe Biden's beach house in Rehoboth, Delaware, on Wednesday but did take some materials for further review, Biden's attorney said. The morning search by FBI agents appeared to represent an expansion of the probe into Biden's handling of classified documents. Biden's personal …

Key dates in discovery of classified records tied to Biden
1 year, 10 months ago

Key dates in discovery of classified records tied to Biden

Associated Press  

Key dates related to the discovery of classified documents tied to President Joe Biden, based on statements from the White House, the president, his lawyers and Attorney General Merrick Garland: — Jan. 20, 2017: Biden’s two terms as vice president to President Barack Obama end. — Nov. 2, 2022: Biden’s personal attorneys come across Obama-Biden administration documents in a locked …

Classified documents probe: FBI searches Biden's Delaware beach home
1 year, 10 months ago

Classified documents probe: FBI searches Biden's Delaware beach home

Firstpost  

The search, the third of a Biden site in less than two months, follows the 13-hour, 20 Jan top-to-bottom check of his Wilmington, Delaware, home, where agents located documents with classified markings and also took possession of some of his handwritten notes The FBI searched President Joe Biden’s Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, home Wednesday as part of its investigation into the …

FBI searches US President Biden's beach home in Delaware: lawyer
1 year, 10 months ago

FBI searches US President Biden's beach home in Delaware: lawyer

Hindustan Times  

The FBI was conducting a planned search Wednesday of President Joe Biden's Rehoboth Beach, Delaware home as part of its investigation into the potential mishandling of classified documents, the president's personal lawyer said. US President Joe Biden, The search follows a 13-hour, top-to-bottom review of his Wilmington, Delaware home on Jan. 20, when agents located additional documents with classified markings …

AP source: FBI searched Biden’s former office in November
1 year, 10 months ago

AP source: FBI searched Biden’s former office in November

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The FBI searched President Joe Biden’s former office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington in November, according to a person familiar with the matter, at least a week after his personal lawyers first found classified records there from his time as vice president. It was not immediately clear whether the FBI search of Biden’s office — which …

National Archives weighs searching all ex-presidents and VPs for classified documents
1 year, 10 months ago

National Archives weighs searching all ex-presidents and VPs for classified documents

Daily Mail  

The National Archives is considering requiring all living former presidents and vice presidents to search their personal records for classified documents after such materials were found at the residences of Joe Biden, Donald Trump and Mike Pence all within the last year. The National Archives is considering requiring searches of all former living presidents and vice presidents' materials to check …

Classified documents found at Mike Pence's Indiana home
1 year, 10 months ago

Classified documents found at Mike Pence's Indiana home

Firstpost  

Washington: Former US vice president Mike Pence revealed Tuesday he had uncovered documents marked as classified at his home, the latest twist in a mushrooming scandal over politicians’ handling of the nation’s most sensitive secrets. The discovery comes in the wake of the revelations about classified material discovered in President Joe Biden’s private office and residence, and allegations that Biden’s …

Classified documents found at Mike Pence’s home too, his lawyer says
1 year, 10 months ago

Classified documents found at Mike Pence’s home too, his lawyer says

The Hindu  

Documents with classified markings were discovered in former Vice-President Mike Pence's Indiana home last week, his lawyer told the National Archives in a letter — the latest in a string of discoveries of confidential information in private residences. The records "appear to be a small number of documents bearing classified markings that were inadvertently boxed and transported to the personal …

White House trashes MEDIA for 'stirring up controversy' over Biden documents
1 year, 10 months ago

White House trashes MEDIA for 'stirring up controversy' over Biden documents

Daily Mail  

The White House has accused members of the media of seeking to milk daily revelations about President Joe Biden's possession of classified documents for their own benefit – amid pressure to provide straight answers on camera about the state of the matter. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre faced calls to reveal more details about the documents discovered at Biden's …

Timeline | The revelations in the Joe Biden classified documents saga
1 year, 11 months ago

Timeline | The revelations in the Joe Biden classified documents saga

Firstpost  

Washington: The first secret documents turned up in Joe Biden’s former private office and home back in November, but it was January before the White House publicly admitted the embarrassing discovery — under pressure from a steady drip of media revelations. Also read: Biden classified documents discovery: From where the information was found to probe, here’s what we know 9 …

Legal, political strategy in letting FBI search President Joe Biden's home
1 year, 11 months ago

Legal, political strategy in letting FBI search President Joe Biden's home

Firstpost  

Washington: President Joe Biden’s decision to allow the FBI to search his home in Delaware last week is laying him open to fresh negative attention and embarrassment following the earlier discoveries of classified documents at that home and a former office. “This was a voluntary proactive offer by the president’s personal lawyers to DOJ to have access to the home,” …

Legal, political strategy in letting FBI search Biden’s home
1 year, 11 months ago

Legal, political strategy in letting FBI search Biden’s home

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s decision allowing the FBI to search his home in Delaware last week is laying him open to fresh negative attention and embarrassment following the earlier discoveries of classified documents at that home and a former office. “This was a voluntary proactive offer by the president’s personal lawyers to DOJ to have access to the home,” …

DC Edit | Biden docus a turning point
1 year, 11 months ago

DC Edit | Biden docus a turning point

Deccan Chronicle  

The discovery at two locations of classified documents from US President Joe Biden’s time as Vice-President has turned the political narrative in America’s politics on its head. The Democrats who have a performing President whose popularity ratings are, however, sliding again, may have lost the moral high ground they had claimed when it was discovered that the former President Donald …

Misplaced secrets: On U.S. President Joe Biden’s legal troubles
1 year, 11 months ago

Misplaced secrets: On U.S. President Joe Biden’s legal troubles

The Hindu  

When his predecessor Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, was raided last August and a trove of thousands of government documents was discovered there, including several hundreds of classified papers, little would U.S. President Joe Biden have imagined that he would find himself in a similar sticky situation. Yet, Mr. Biden and the White House have so far reacted calmly …

FBI searched Biden home, found items marked classified
1 year, 11 months ago

FBI searched Biden home, found items marked classified

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The FBI searched President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, on Friday and located additional documents with classified markings and also took possession of some of his handwritten notes, the president’s lawyer said Saturday. Since then, attorneys found six classified documents in Biden’s Wilmington home library from his time as vice president. During Friday’s search, which lasted nearly …

FBI Searched Biden Home, Found More Documents Marked Classified
1 year, 11 months ago

FBI Searched Biden Home, Found More Documents Marked Classified

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — The FBI searched President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, on Friday and located additional documents with classified markings and also took possession of some of his handwritten notes, the president’s lawyer said Saturday. Since then, attorneys found six classified documents in Biden’s Wilmington home library from his time as vice president. The FBI, he …

New search of Biden’s home turns up more classified documents
1 year, 11 months ago

New search of Biden’s home turns up more classified documents

Al Jazeera  

Officials from the Department of Justice find six more classified documents during 13-hour search of Joe Biden’s Delaware home. Officials in the United States have discovered six more classified documents during a new search of President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, according to a lawyer. It came more than a week after Biden’s lawyers found six other classified documents …

Biden on classified docs discovery: ‘There’s no there there’
1 year, 11 months ago

Biden on classified docs discovery: ‘There’s no there there’

Associated Press  

APTOS, Calif. — A frustrated President Joe Biden said Thursday there is “no there there” when he was persistently questioned about the discovery of classified documents and official records at his home and former office. “There’s no there there.” The White House has disclosed that Biden attorneys found classified documents and official records on four occasions in recent months — …

Joe Biden downplays classified documents issue, says 'nothing there'
1 year, 11 months ago

Joe Biden downplays classified documents issue, says 'nothing there'

Firstpost  

Biden’s defiant comments came just over a week after news first emerged that around a dozen secret documents dating from his time as vice president to Barack Obama had been found sitting in a former Biden office space Aptos: President Joe Biden on Thursday downplayed the furor over the discovery of old classified documents improperly stored in his personal belongings, …

Watch: Republicans face criticism for ignoring 'very valid reason' for Trump and Biden to be treated differently
1 year, 11 months ago

Watch: Republicans face criticism for ignoring 'very valid reason' for Trump and Biden to be treated differently

Raw Story  

A political analyst suggested Monday on CNN that Republicans were acting hypocritically by vowing to investigate President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents after defending former President Donald Trump. “Congressman Comer himself never asked for the visitor logs from Mar-a-Lago while he's asked for the visiting logs for President Biden’s Delaware home, and a lot of Republicans -- including Representative …

Key dates in discovery of classified records tied to Biden
1 year, 11 months ago

Key dates in discovery of classified records tied to Biden

Associated Press  

Key dates related to the discovery of classified documents tied to President Joe Biden, based on statements from the White House, the president and Attorney General Merrick Garland: — Jan. 20, 2017: Biden’s two terms as vice president to President Barack Obama end. — Nov. 2, 2022: Biden’s personal attorneys come across Obama-Biden administration documents in a locked closet while …

More classified documents found at Biden’s home by lawyers
1 year, 11 months ago

More classified documents found at Biden’s home by lawyers

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Lawyers for President Joe Biden found more classified documents at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, than previously known, the White House acknowledged Saturday. White House lawyer Richard Sauber said in a statement that a total of six pages of classified documents were found during a search of Biden’s private library. “The DOJ officials with me immediately took possession …

White House Says Additional Classified Document Found At Biden's House In Delaware: Report
1 year, 11 months ago

White House Says Additional Classified Document Found At Biden's House In Delaware: Report

ABP News  

The White House disclosed on Saturday that lawyers for President Joe Biden discovered more secret documents at his house in Wilmington, Delaware than previously known, news agency Associated Press reported. A total of six pages of classified documents were discovered during a search of Biden's private library, according to White House lawyer Richard Sauber. Sauber's statement didn't explain why the …

More classified documents found at Biden’s home
1 year, 11 months ago

More classified documents found at Biden’s home

Al Jazeera  

White House says five additional pages with classified markings were discovered at the president’s Delaware home. White House lawyer Richard Sauber said in a statement on Saturday that he found the additional pages on Thursday during a visit to the president’s home to facilitate the handover of a document with classified markings that was found there earlier. Al Jazeera’s Patty …

Additional classified papers removed from Biden’s home library
1 year, 11 months ago

Additional classified papers removed from Biden’s home library

LA Times  

Lawyers for President Biden have found still more classified documents at his home in Wilmington, Del., the White House acknowledged Saturday. White House lawyer Richard Sauber said in a statement that a total of six pages of classified documents were found during a search of Biden’s private library. “The officials with me immediately took possession of them.” Sauber has previously …

Biden’s Delaware home is now a player in document drama
1 year, 11 months ago

Biden’s Delaware home is now a player in document drama

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — It’s President Joe Biden’s refuge from Washington — a place that’s part home office, part Sunday family dinner venue, a safe place for his treasured 1967 Corvette and a makeshift campaign studio during the COVID-19 pandemic. The White House confirmed Thursday that classified records were found in the garage of Biden’s Wilmington home, as well as an adjacent …

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