Monitoring Desk
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that he was surprised when informed that official records were found at his former office in Washington.
Speaking to media persons in Mexico City, the US President said his counselors did what they should have done when they immediately called the National Archives about the finding at the offices of the Penn Biden Center.
President Biden kept an office there following he left the vice presidency in 2017 until shortly before he started his presidential campaign in 2019.
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The White House also confirmed that the Department of Justice was examining “a few documents with classified markings” discovered at the office.
President Joe Biden said in his first comments that he was briefed about the discovery and surprised to learn that there are any official records that were taken there to that office. He said that he did not know about the documents.
Top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee demanded that the US intelligence do a “damage assessment” of potentially classified documents.
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Mike Turner sent the appeal to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, adding that President Biden’s holding of the documents put the US President in “potential violation of laws protecting national security, including the Espionage Act and Presidential Records Act.”
