Walter Shaub, the ethics chief for the Obama administration, has recently spoken out to slam President Joe Biden while giving an interview this past week in the wake of a number of caches of classified papers being discovered in both a think tank bearing his name and inside of his Delaware home.
“It’s nothing like Trump’s deliberate refusal to return classified records demanded by the National Archives, but Biden’s own retention of classified records reflects an inexcusable neglect of the most basic security protocols,” explained Shaub in his interview with Fox News. “The fact that the White House didn’t mention that records were found in more than one location when first asked about them was a breach of trust with the public and a self-inflicted wound.”
“Based on what we know so far, it seems unlikely that he’s at risk of any of legal consequences,” explained Shaub, “but I’m glad Garland appointed a special counsel to show even-handed treatment of the current and former president.”
This past Thursday, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland came forward to announce that he had officially appointed former U.S. Attorney Robert Hur — who is known for having spent time serving under the Trump administration — to once again come forward and serve as the special counsel in regard to the investigation in the wake of a recommendation from U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois John Lausch, who had at first been put on the case to carry out the primary review of the information, recommended to Garland that a special counsel needed to be assigned to the case.
This new review kicked off just a bit after Biden’s personal legal counsel discovered a cache of 10 highly classified documents which had been secreted away inside an envelope located inside of the president’s private office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement located in the Washington area. This private attorney found the first of these envelopes back on the 2nd of November, but the discovery itself, however, had not been released to the general public until just roughly a week ago. The classified papers were quickly gathered up and directly handed back over to the National Archives in order to be properly stored, explained Richard Sauber, who holds the role of a special counsel to the president.
Sauber explained as part of a separate release that a thorough search of all of Biden’s known offices, quarters, and other spaces ended up recovering yet another set of classified papers, with these particular classified papers being found inside the garage of the president’s home in Wilmington, Delaware.
