Last November, lawyers for the U.S. president discovered a small number of classified documents dating from his term as vice president at an office the president formerly used and reported it to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The Justice Department opened an inquiry into why and how they got there. CNN reported at the time that around 10 classified documents, some marked "top secret," were found and related to the United Kingdom, Ukraine and Iran. Biden's legal team prepared to search his other properties for any similar documents and discussed with the DoJ the prospect of having FBI agents present while Biden's lawyers conducted the additional searches. In January, Attorney General Merrick Garland handpicked Hur to investigate the matter, amid questions about why the White House delayed public announcements of the discovery of the sensitive records at that time. Critics could not help but wonder why the DoJ is working so hard to imprison 2024 presidential poll leader former President Donald Trump over mishandling classified documents when Hur will let Biden off just like that over the same charges. In the week since news reports first surfaced about the documents, the incident has drawn parallels to the discovery of documents at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, which federal agents obtained a warrant to search in August after more than a year of negotiations between Trump's lawyers, the NARA and DoJ, and after the former president's lawyers said all documents had been returned. "There were plenty of questions and questionable activity, including the comings and goings of several White House officials in the months leading up to the discovery of classified documents, surrounding Biden's concealment of the papers from his time as vice president. Yet neither the article nor the accompanying TV segment made any mention of why Biden's lawyers, who claimed they stumbled across the documents, were snooping around the Penn Biden Center office in Washington, D.C., in the first place," an article on the Federalist pointed out. The independent news outlet pointed out that CNN did not mention the other key differences between the two cases, like the fact that Trump's documents were discovered on a private, Secret Service-protected property while Biden's were found in a busy public building and easily accessible garage. Nor did it note that NARA specifically didn't work with Trump after his departure as it did with former President Barack Obama and Biden. Moreover, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters then that he was unaware that government documents had been stored there. It can be noted that Special Counsel Jack Smith indicted Trump in June with 37 counts of mishandling classified documents and two months later, he tacked on three more charges related to the discovery of documents at Trump's mansion. For critics, Biden's information cache warranted the same level of investigation and transparency that Trump suffered. The current POTUS harbored classified documents from his time as vice president in a box by his 1967 Corvette Stingray and his "think tank" office for years, yet it was Trump who could soon be imprisoned. (Related: The deep state finally got the indictment they have been wanting: Trump hit with 37 federal counts over handling of classified documents.)#BREAKING: CNN announces that Special Counsel Robert Hur will NOT be bringing charges against ANYONE in connection to his investigation of how then-Vice President Biden and his team over how they handled classified documents.
CNN's Brianna Keilar and Paula Reid say Hur's team… pic.twitter.com/29kUGlB7Eo — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 16, 2023
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