Biden utfrågad om hemliga dokument: ”Frivillig intervju”
USA:s president Joe Biden har frågats ut som ett led i den utredning av en eventuell felhantering av hemligstämplade dokument, som hittades både i hans hem och ett tidigare kontor. Det rapporterar nyhetsbyrån AP.
”Den frivilliga intervjun genomfördes under två dagar, måndag och söndag”, säger Vita husets talesperson Ian Sams i ett uttalande.
De första hemligstämplade dokumenten hittades i november förra året i Penn Biden Center i Washington, en tankesmedja som är kopplad till University of Pennsylvania där Biden tidigare varit hedersprofessor.
I januari hittades sedan ytterligare dokument i hans bostad i Wilmington i Delaware.
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Wikipedia (en)
Between November 2022 and January 2023, approximately 25 to 30 classified government documents were discovered by President Joe Biden's attorneys in his former office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C., and in his personal residence in Wilmington, Delaware, dating to his time in the Senate and his vice presidency in the Obama administration.On November 2, 2022, Biden's attorneys discovered the first set of classified documents in a locked closet at the Penn Biden Center; they reported them that day to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), which retrieved them the next day. The classified documents included intelligence material and briefing memos on Ukraine, Iran and the United Kingdom. In coordination with the Justice Department (DOJ), Biden's attorneys discovered a second set of documents at Biden's home on December 20, followed by several more on January 9 and January 12, 2023. Biden's personal attorney said on January 21 that the Justice Department discovered six items containing classification markings during a consensual search of his home the previous day, some of which dated to his tenure in the Senate; investigators also seized some of Biden's handwritten notes from his vice presidency.On November 14, 2022, Attorney General Merrick Garland assigned U.S. Attorney John R. Lausch Jr. to conduct an initial investigation. On January 12, 2023, Garland appointed Robert K. Hur as special counsel to investigate "possible unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or other records". The next day, the House Judiciary Committee opened a separate investigation into the documents.
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