National Archives and Records Administration
Additional Documents Found at Biden’s Wilmington Home, White House Says
WASHINGTON — Five more pages containing classified information were found at President Biden’s Delaware home on Thursday, the White House said on Saturday, bringing the tally to six such pages uncovered this week. The additional pages, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said, were discovered hours after a White House statement on Thursday […]
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Documents Inquiry Puts Spotlight on Biden’s Frenetic Last Days as Vice President
The Obama-Biden White House had established a regular process for handling secret papers and the White House Office of Records Management worked closely with the archives to ensure that files were transferred appropriately. Anything the president saw was archived. Classified papers would be returned and put in the National Security Council system or, if involving […]
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How Biden’s Discovery of Classified Files Compares With the Trump Case
Follow for the latest on the discovery of the second batch of classified documents from Biden’s vice presidency. WASHINGTON — The disclosure that classified documents were found in a private office that Joseph R. Biden Jr. had used before beginning his 2020 campaign and at his residence in Wilmington, Del., has prompted comparisons to former […]
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Biden Lawyers Found Classified Documents at His Former Office
The top Democrat on the committee, Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland, downplayed the matter, saying that he had confidence that Mr. Garland had taken appropriate steps to review the circumstances and that Mr. Biden’s lawyers “appear to have taken immediate and proper action” to notify the archives of the documents. The department’s leadership decided to […]
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Discovery of More Classified Records Raises Questions Over Biden’s Handling of Documents
Follow for the latest on the discovery of the second batch of classified documents from Biden’s vice presidency. WASHINGTON — President Biden’s aides have found a new batch of classified documents at a second location associated with Mr. Biden, a person familiar with the situation said on Wednesday. It was the second such disclosure in […]
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Trump Was Warned Late Last Year of Potential Legal Peril Over Documents
A onetime White House lawyer under President Donald J. Trump warned him late last year that Mr. Trump could face legal liability if he did not return government materials he had taken with him when he left office, three people familiar with the matter said. The lawyer, Eric Herschmann, sought to impress upon Mr. Trump […]
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Email Shows Early Tension Between Trump and National Archives
Less than four months after former President Donald J. Trump left office, the general counsel of the National Archives reached out to three lawyers who had worked with Mr. Trump to convey a firm message: The archives had determined that more than two dozen boxes of Mr. Trump’s presidential records were missing, and it needed […]
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The search appears to signal a major escalation in the various investigations into the Trump presidency.
Former President Donald J. Trump said on Monday that the F.B.I. had searched his Palm Beach, Fla., home and had broken open a safe — an account signaling a major escalation in the various investigations into the final stages of his presidency. The search, according to multiple people familiar with the investigation, appeared to be […]
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Secret Service Says Some Missing Jan. 6 Texts Are Unlikely to Be Recovered
WASHINGTON — The Secret Service said it may not be able to recover a batch of erased text messages from phones used by its agents around the time of the attack on the Capitol last year, a development that comes amid intensified scrutiny over lapses in the agency’s accounting of its actions during the riots. […]
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