The special counsel appointed to investigate President Biden’s improper handling and storage of classified documents dating back to his days as a U.S. senator has ended his investigation after nearly 13 months, Attorney General Merrick Garland told lawmakers Wednesday. evening.
In his letter to the leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary committees, Garland wrote that Robert Hur, a former federal prosecutor from Maryland, had filed his report on Monday and that the document would be made public after a so-called “review of privileges” on the part of the Whites. House attorney’s office.
“I am committed to making public as much of the special counsel’s report as possible,” Garland wrote, “consistent with legal requirements and [Justice] Department Policy.”
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the news Wednesday night. REUTERS
Hur’s report is not expected to recommend bringing charges against Biden, 81, or anyone in his orbit, but members of the president’s re-election campaign reportedly fear the special counsel could reveal details and photographs embarrassing questions about the treatment of confidential national security information.
The special counsel was appointed by Garland on January 12, 2023, after the White House admitted to a series of discoveries of classified documents at both Biden’s residence in Wilmington, Delaware, and his post-vice presidential office in D.C. from the University of Pennsylvania. .
Biden’s lawyers said they initially found classified documents on Nov. 2, 2022, while cleaning out his former office at the Penn Biden Center near the Capitol.
That discovery, six days before the midterm elections, was kept secret until CBS News broke the story on Jan. 9 of last year.
Additional documents were found on December 20, 2022 in the garage of Biden’s home in Wilmington, followed by a series of additional discoveries by investigators, including FBI investigators, who also searched Biden’s vacation home in Rehoboth Beach , Delaware, and left with written notes.
Biden is being investigated for alleged mishandling of documents. AP
Biden was interviewed by Hur investigators in October, about a year after he chastised Trump as “irresponsible” for withholding national security documents at his Mar-a-Lago, the basis of an ongoing federal case against the 45th president. .
The president has tried to downplay the controversy, telling PBS in February of last year: “As far as I know, the type of things they collected are things that… from 1974, lost documents.”
Biden first publicly acknowledged the discovery of documents in November 2022 at the Penn Biden Center at a news conference on January 10, 2023 in Mexico City.
In his opening remarks, Biden did not say that a second cache of classified documents had been found days earlier in his Wilmington garage.
The same day Hur was appointed by Garland, the president admitted that more records were found next to his classic Corvette in Wilmington, but denied that he was reckless with the nation’s secrets.
“My Corvette is in a locked garage, okay?” Biden snapped at reporters. “So it’s not like they’re sitting on the street.”
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