An investigation into Joe Biden’s classified documents is apparently casting a “wide net” and going all the way back to the President’s time as a Senator – but sources leaking to ABC have implied the investigation will end sympathetically, with Biden’s improper retention of sensitive material being classed as “more likely a mistake than a criminal act.”
Special Counsel Robert Hur was appointed to investigate the situation after classified documents were found in boxes near the 46th President’s Corvette, having also previously been found at his office in the Penn Biden Center.
Leaks to ABC News suggest Blinken and other senior figures have been interviewed by Hur’s team, with the investigation said to have “grown into a sprawling examination of Obama-era security protocols and internal White House processes,” indicating Hur’s report is going to focus on institutional rather than personal failings.
The soft-touch approach to Biden compared to Trump – who has been aggressively pursued and prosecuted by Special Counsel Jack Smith for allegedly mishandling classified documents after leaving the White House – comes in spite of the fact that Trump had enjoyed full declassifying authority as President of the United States. Biden, who took documents as a Senator and later as Vice President, had no such authority.
