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Live coverage: Attorney General Merrick Garland appoints special counsel to handle Biden documents [1]
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Date: 2023-01-12
A dozen documents at the Penn Biden Center were found by attorneys working for President Biden in November and reported to the DOJ. Following that discovery, Biden’s attorneys conducted a search of his residences in Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. These are all the locations known to have received documents during and following Biden’s tenure as vice president. This second search netted a “small number of documents,” of which all but one page were found in a garage storage area.
Republicans have been quick to draw false comparisons with the situation at Mar-a-Lago, where Donald Trump not only took hundreds of documents—including some with the highest top secret classification—but refused to return documents when requested by the National Archives. An FBI search of Trump’s residence occurred only after the DOJ was notified that more classified material remained after Trump had claimed to have returned all documents. A special counsel is currently evaluating whether Trump should face charges for withholding these documents—along with other issues. Multiple Republicans have insisted that a special counsel be appointed to evaluate the documents found by Biden’s attorneys.
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