Trump had just announced he was running for president again, and that Mr. Trump’s failure to return a large number of classified documents that were sent to his Florida residence and club, Mar-a-Lago, when he left office - even after being subpoenaed.Īt the time, Mr. 18 appointment of Jack Smith as a special counsel to take over the criminal investigation into Mr.
Biden’s team waited more than two months to announce the discovery of the documents, which came a week before the midterm congressional elections when the news would have been an explosive last-minute development. The White House statement said that it “is cooperating” with the department but did not explain why Mr. Under the regulation, an initial investigation consists of “such factual inquiry or legal research as the attorney general deems appropriate” to “be conducted in order to better inform the decision” about whether a matter warrants the appointment of a special counsel. Lausch has been conducting a so-called initial investigation under a Justice Department regulation that allows an attorney general to appoint a special counsel, a special prosecutor who operates with a measure of day-to-day independence to conduct a particularly sensitive investigation. Two people familiar with the matter said that Mr. Lausch has been scrutinizing the situation since November, according to one of the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter. Trump, to look into the matter, according to two people familiar with the decision, confirming a CBS News report. attorney in Chicago who was appointed by Mr. Biden or his team resisted efforts to recover any sensitive documents. The discovery was not in response to any prior request from the archives, and there was no indication that Mr. Biden had periodically used an office at the center from mid-2017 until the start of the 2020 presidential campaign, and the lawyers were packing it up in preparations to vacate the space. The White House said in a statement that the White House Counsel’s Office notified the National Archives and Records Administration on the same day the documents were found “in a locked closet” and that the agency retrieved them the next morning. Officials did not describe precisely how many documents were involved, what kind of information they included or their level of classification. 2, when they were packing files at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, according to the White House. Biden’s former office, which date to his time as vice president, were found by his personal lawyers on Nov.
Trump’s hoarding of sensitive documents and failure to return all of them. Garland decide whether to appoint a special counsel, like the one investigating former President Donald J. The inquiry, according to two people familiar with the matter, is a type aimed at helping Attorney General Merrick B.
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WASHINGTON - President Biden’s lawyers discovered “a small number” of classified documents in his former office at a Washington think tank last fall, the White House said on Monday, prompting the Justice Department to scrutinize the situation to determine how to proceed. Follow for the latest on the discovery of the second batch of classified documents from Biden’s vice presidency.
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