According to Fox News, nine boxes of Biden documents were taken from the Boston office and have yet to be reviewed for classified material.
Nine boxes of documents were taken from President Joe Biden’s Washington DC think tank and shipped to the Boston office of his attorney Patrick Moore, and have yet to be reviewed for classified material, the National Archives disclosed in a Tuesday letter responding to Sens. Rob Johnson (R-WI) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA).
Moore shipped the boxes from the Penn Biden Center from his Boston office before discovering the initial trove of classified documents at the DC-based think tank, Fox News reports.
In response to questions by Johnson and Grassley in a Feb. 24 letter asking how and when the archives learned that records were transported to Boston, Acting Archivist of the United States Debra Steidel Wall responded the agency learned about it on Nov. 3, 2022.
“When NARA [National Archives and Records Administration] contacted President Biden’s personal counsel on November 3, 2022, to arrange to pick up boxes from the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C., they informed NARA that Mr. Moore had moved other boxes from the Penn Biden Center to Mr. Moore’s law firm in Boston,” reads the letter.
What’s more, the archives told the DOJ Office of the Inspector General on Nov. 4 that the documents had been moved. They were then picked up on Nov. 9, where they were secured at the JFK Presidential Library in Boston.
Trump backers have charged that the DOJ applied a different standard to the Biden case than it did to the Trump one. This isn’t surprising as the FBI has decided not to monitor classified Biden documents.
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I like both Presidents Biden and Trump. But for many years it’s been obvious that most cases of classification were CYA rather than “sources and methods.” And favoritism was rampant long before Trump. I favor this standard: If a peer or near-peer competitor likely has the information, DECLASSIFY IT–regardless of who’s embarrassed or indicted.
Biden’s playing a shell game w DoJ, with his lawyers’ complicity. Hang ’em all (after due process, natch).