The special counsel appointed to investigate President Biden’s handling and storage of classified documents dating back to his time as a US senator has ended his investigation after nearly 13 months, Attorney General Merrick Garland told lawmakers Wednesday night.
In his letter to the leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary committees, Garland wrote that Robert Hur, the former Maryland US attorney, had submitted his report on Monday and that the document would be released following what he called a “privilege review” by White. Home lawyer’s office.
“I am committed to making as many of the Special Counsel’s reports public 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 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 embarrassing details and photos about the handling of sensitive national security information.
The special counsel was appointed by Garland on January 12, 2023, after the White House acknowledged the discovery of a series of classified papers at Biden’s residence in Wilmington, Del. and in his presidential office in DC provided by the University of Pennsylvania.
Biden’s lawyers said they initially found the classified documents on November 2, 2022, while cleaning out his former office at the Penn Biden Center near Capitol Hill.
The discovery, six days before the midterm elections, was kept quiet until CBS News broke the story on January 9 of last year.
Additional documents were found on Dec. 20, 2022, in the garage of Biden’s Wilmington home, followed by a series of additional discoveries by searchers including FBI investigators — who also searched Biden’s Rehoboth Beach, Del., vacation home and left with written notes.
Biden is being investigated for alleged document mishandling. AP
Biden was interviewed by Hur investigators in October — about a year after he chided Trump as “irresponsible” for keeping national security documents at his Mar-a-Lago, the basis of an ongoing federal case against the 45th president.
The president has sought to downplay the controversy, telling PBS in February of last year: “As far as I know, the kind of thing they’re taking is the thing that – from 1974, the paper was misguided.”
Biden first publicly acknowledged the discovery of the November 2022 documents at the Penn Biden Center at a press 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 in his Wilmington garage days earlier.
The same day Hur was appointed by Garland, the president acknowledged that more records were found next to his classic Corvette in Wilmington, but denied he was reckless with national secrets.
“My Corvette is in the locked garage, OK?” Biden snapped at reporters. “So, it’s not like they’re sitting on the street.”
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