(EFE).- US President Joe Biden downplayed Wednesday the controversy over classified documents discovered at his Delaware home and private office, but he faulted his staff for the mishandling as they unpacked at the end of his previous as vice president during Barack Obama’s presidency.
“One of the things that happened is that, what was not done well, is as they packed up my office’s to move them, they didn’t do the kind of job that should have been done to go thoroughly through every single piece of literature that’s there,” the president said.
The confidential records from Biden’s stint as vice president were discovered in several locations in January, escalating Republican attacks against the Democrat.
Secretary of Justice Merrick Garland appointed Robert Hur as a special prosecutor to study the files on Jan.12.
“The best of my knowledge, the kinds of things they picked up are things that are from 1974 and stray papers – there may be something else, I don’t know,” Biden told PBS News Hour host Judy Woodruff.
BREAKING: Biden says one of the classified documents hidden in his home was from 1974. pic.twitter.com/qfaiWISPD3
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Asked if it was “totally irresponsible” to have the documents left behind, Biden said he was not at liberty to speak in detail.
“They’ve informed me not to speak to this issue to any way try to prejudice the investigation that’s going on,” Biden said. “But what I was talking about what was laid out, all these documents were top secret, code word and all the rest.”
He attempted to draw a comparison between his alleged mishandling of secret data and former President Donald Trump’s document row.
The FBI searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home even as the former president refused to cooperate with the investigation.
However, Biden himself invited the FBI to search his home, as he confirmed in a PBS interview.
The White House has insisted on several occasions that the president cooperated in the probe.
“I’m not at liberty. I’m not even sure. I made voluntarily, no one’s had to threaten to do anything, voluntary, when every single aperture I have with house, offices, everything for them to come and look and spend hours searching my home, invited them,” Biden said.
All data must be turned over to the National Archives at the end of a presidential term, as per US law. EFE
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To most Americans of integrity, it is bread that is the staff of life. To the pudding head crusty old President and his Whitehouse minions, it’s only the Dough that is to be the staff off their lives, not well-baked, but definitely well laundered. The non-transparent cellophane wrappings should definitely contain the warnings “Keep away from children, and keep away from the truth, or people and their truths may die of suffocation”. If Biden and his staff actually invited the FBI to search his homes, it was because he knew up front, they were already in the bag, and the unleavened truth like their unleavened bread would get smothered, into flat lies and flatbread by their pill popping Pillsbury Doughboys.
AND if his “staff” we the ones moving things, DID ANY OF THEM have the necessary clearance to HANDLE those documents?
According to every person familiar with the process of government officials viewing classified documents, the documents can only be viewed in a secure SCIF and then immediately returned for secure storage.
This means that biden must have viewed the documents and then removed them from the SCIF and took them to his home, his office, or wherever and basically stole classified documents.
There’s no blaming his staff workers for this. Just biden trying to weasel his way out of this by blaming someone else, as usual.
There actually IS a reason to blame them. As a sailor, we were taught if you EVER CAME across classified docs, OUT SIDE OF THE AREAS they were supposed to be, REPORT IT!
IF THEY DID NOT< then they are negligent.
Now that’s some great leadership there, take no responsibility or accountability blame everything on the people below you. What about the classified papers from when you were a senator? Did the same people pack those as well? JMO
Biden is a soulless thieving grifter who when cornered would throw his Mama under the bus. Watch out Hunter. He’s setting you up to take the fall.
Always has to blame someone else. Did that all the way through the SOTU. Clown show
That’s always the demon-rat SOP.. BLAME everyone and everything else… ITS ‘never our fault”.
True, BUT it didn’t seem to matter to Biden voters dead or alive. The problem is the idiot, uninformed voters who continue to vote for anything with a D after the name along with promising ever more freebies.
Cretins like those, i honestly think need a MRI to ensure they still have a brain!
So, when our “Liar in Chief” was a Senator, did one of his staffers remove classified documents from the SCIF? If so, they certainly lacked security clearance. I doubt a staffer would even be allowed in the SCIF.
What kinds of security are in and surrounding a SCIF? Assuming there’s cameras inside, possibly guards inside and out, how did he manage to get classified docs out without being noticed? Methinks that was an inside job.
Were Biden truly a man of integrity, honor, and really one of us, as old Lunch Bucket Joe would have us believe, he’d man up and admit he broke the law. Because he’s totally devoid of soul, why not blame his staff? After all, there’s getting to be less and less personal responsibility in today’s America. A real shame!
Integrity? Honor? Surely you jest!
I served over 25 years in USMC and lived by this very true quote to me (do not know the author): You can delegate authority but you cannot delegate responsibility. Helped me make sure to provide the besty advise/guidance to the troops cause any wrong was my wrong only. If they did the job great, they deserved the praise and promotions if due.
I lived by that rule too..
Very good rule to live by. I didn’t serve but if everyone lived by that rule, I think things would be a lot better. Getting politicians to follow that rule would be not possible as they seem to dance to the ear of a different drummer.