The same United States Justice Department prosecuting former President Donald Trump for mishandling classified documents ordered the National Archives and Records Administration to recover nine boxes of documents that had been held by Joe Biden \u2013 but a federal prosecutor investing whether Biden illegally retained documents appears to have not looked into the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), ranking member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Committee on the Budget, \u201csent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray, and Special Counsel Robert Hur regarding an apparent \u2018significant factual omission\u2019 in the Special Counsel\u2019s report on President Biden\u2019s handling of classified records,\u201d a statement from Johnson announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn March 2023, the senators revealed that the Department of Justice (DOJ) tasked the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to retrieve nine boxes of Biden records from the Boston office of Patrick Moore, one of Biden\u2019s personal counsels. NARA told the senators that it did move the boxes to its facility in Boston on November 9, 2022.\u00a0 It remains unclear whether any of the records in those boxes contained classified information,\u201d the statement reveals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many assume the boxes contained classified documents, as the order to retrieve them came from the Justice Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The senators wrote, \u201c[o]ddly, Special Counsel Hur\u2019s report did not mention NARA\u2019s retrieval of the nine boxes from Mr. Moore\u2019s office. This apparent omission is significant given that, according to NARA, the Department of Justice requested that NARA recover the boxes. In fact, in March 2023, NARA informed our offices that \u2018while NARA has not yet reviewed the contents of the nine boxes, the FBI has.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe senators noted that if the FBI did review the contents of the boxes, it is unclear what was found, if it included any classified information, and \u2018whether the FBI informed Special Counsel Hur\u2019s office of its findings,\u2019\u201d Johnson noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The senators added, \u201cit is unclear if Special Counsel Hur had any awareness of or reviewed the information contained in these nine boxes. It would be extremely troubling if Special Counsel Hur failed to investigate the contents of these nine boxes particularly given that we first publicly revealed the existence of these specific boxes on March 27, 2023 \u2014 nearly one year ago.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The same United States Justice Department prosecuting former President Donald Trump for mishandling classified documents ordered the National Archives and Records Administration to recover nine boxes of documents that had been held by Joe Biden \u2013 but a federal prosecutor investing whether Biden illegally retained documents appears to have not looked into the matter. U.S. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[400,514,8,78,14,49,690],"class_list":["post-6217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-classified-documents","tag-commentary","tag-donald-trump","tag-joe-biden","tag-justice-department","tag-merrick-garland","tag-national-archives"],"yoast_head":"\n