Oh No That’s Embarrassing!

 Al Ritter

It has come to light that new classified documents have just been discovered. Not at Mar-a-Lago this time and not in President’s Trump’s possession but at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington DC. This was a think tank that Biden worked for after he left as Vice President.

These documents were discovered by President Biden’s private attorneys just before the midterm elections in a locked closet. Once again information was withheld before an election, to keep the electorate in the dark.

Once discovered the attorneys placed a call to the DOJ and involved Merrick Garland as to what should be done about them. Garland assigned US attorney for the Northern District in Illinois to investigate.

The Whitehouse was quick to stifle any comparisons to the Mar-a-Lago raid, claiming that this was a voluntary surrender of documents. Such a statement is ludicrous as Biden himself never surrendered them, the discovery by his attorneys is how they were found and then turned over to the DOJ.

Now here’s where things get muddy the Vice President doesn’t have the same power to just declassify any documents he or she wishes, like the President does. The Vice President can only declassify documents that he alone classified.

So it depends on what exactly are in those 10 documents as to what kind of trouble he may be in, regardless of the outcome, this is certainly embarrassing for the President, especially after castigating President Trump for the same thing.

Read and watch here:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-center-classified-documents/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=196611442

Read about what a Vice President can declassify here:

https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2006/02/the_vice_presidents_declassifi/

More documents found today at Biden's private residence in Wilmington DE:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-aides-find-second-batch-classified-documents-new-location-rcna65371