Republicans Plan to Investigate Biden’s Export of Secret Documents

Republicans in the US Congress intend to investigate after classified documents were found in a think tank associated with United States President Joe Biden, Republican Congressman Paul Gosar said. transmit “RIA News”.

“Joe Biden stole classified documents and secretly hid them in his office when he was vice president, but suddenly the Democrats didn’t care. Careless storage of secret documents is a criminal offense punishable by imprisonment for up to 10 years,” said Gosar, whose statement was provided to RIA Novosti by his representative.

According to the agency, Gosar assured that the Republicans “will investigate and make sure that Biden is accountable for his crimes.”

Biden himself declaredthat does not know the contents of the found secret documents. “I was informed about this find and surprised to learn that there were some government records,” he said.

January 10 Reuters, citing special adviser to the President Richard Sauber informedthat Biden’s lawyers discovered classified documents in his office at the Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement at the Biden University of Pennsylvania in Washington.

In total, almost ten documents from the time of Biden’s vice presidency (2009-2017) were discovered. The center itself was established in 2018. They were found at the same time in early November, a few days before the US midterm elections. According to a presidential spokesman, the documents were found in a locked cabinet. It was noted that the head of state used the office space of the center named after him from mid-2017 until the start of the presidential campaign in 2020.

CNN citing sources clarified: Secret documents contain materials about Ukraine, Iran and the UK, and they are dated from the period 2013-2016, when Biden served as vice president in the administration of Barack Obama. Republican House Intelligence Committee spokesman Mike Turner demanded a damage assessment in connection with the discovered documents.

August 8 at the residence of former US President Donald Trump Mar-a-Lago in Florida FBI spent searches. According to the American media, it was about the documents that the ex-president took with him after leaving the White House. The FBI testimony on which the search warrant was issued noted that Trump voluntarily returned the documents to the US National Archives in May. However, they contained classified information, in connection with which the US Department of Justice ordered to check whether Trump was keeping other classified documents. Trump himself and his supporters called the searches part of the political persecution carried out by the Biden administration.