Joe Biden’s lawyers discovered the documents in November while emptying these premises and handed them over to the Archives, responsible for preserving this type of act, said his legal adviser Richard Sauber.
The White House cooperates with the National Archives and the Department of Justice
Sauber said in a statement.
Ce small number of documents classified as confidential
were found in a locked cupboard
at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank tied to the University of Pennsylvania, he said.
The documents had not been the subject of any prior request or request
and, since their release to the Archives, Joe Biden’s lawyers have continued to cooperate in order to ensure the Archives is in possession of any Obama-Biden administration records
he added.
According to the American media CBS News, the Secretary of Justice Merrick Garland ordered the Chicago federal prosecutor to review the documents, and the federal police (FBI) also opened an investigation.
Citing an anonymous source, CBS News indicates that a dozen documents are concerned and none contain nuclear secrets.
The FBI had carried out a spectacular search of Donald Trump’s residence in Florida in August in order to recover thousands of documents, including a hundred classified defense secrets, taken by the ex-president after his departure from the White House and that he had until then refused to return to the Archives.
According to press reports, these confidential documents seized at his Mar-a-Lago club contained in particular sensitive information on China and Iran as well as nuclear secrets.