The Biden White House is reportedly set to blame the National Archives for the growing number of classified documents found in a number of locations inside the Biden family’s Delaware home.
A CNN report published today citing multiple people close to Joe Biden professionally at the end of his tenure as Vice President casts blame on both the National Archives and low level staffers tasked with packing Biden’s belongings in the final days of the Obama administration.
“The packing was carried out by members of Biden’s staff,” CNN noted, “including lower-level aides and assistants who were provided boxes to store the vice president’s things.” The left wing news source quickly reported a second time, “it was lower-level staffers who carried out most of the actual packing of Biden’s belongings and documents, including his executive assistant Kathy Chung, who now works at the Pentagon, as well as other personal aides.”
Joe Biden and Barack Obama
Then, as noted by Breitbart News, the claim appears to surface that these low level staffers were forced to do the Vice President’s packing because the National Archives didn’t do enough to help.
“While the National Archives sends staff members to the White House to gather files and papers of the President, they do not treat all vice presidential papers with the same high regard, officials said,” CNN reported.
The left wing cable network seemed to lament, per Breitbart:
“Staff members from the vice president’s office are often left to sort through papers themselves, officials say, rather than specialists from the Archives,” the report continued. “While classified documents hold the same level of secrecy for presidents, vice presidents and anyone with proper security clearance to handle them, officials say, it would be easier for papers outside the Oval Office to be mixed up or left behind.”
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Last year, many conservatives criticized the National Archives for what some claim is a politically motivated investigation into 45th President Donald Trump for alleged mishandling of classified documents.
Unlike with Biden’s “mishandled” documents, that investigation saw Trump’s personal Florida home raided by federal law enforcement in a spectacle that captured national media attention.
Today Rep. Jim Jordan revealed that his first investigation as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee will be to investigate Biden’s “mishandling” of classified documents, and in concert, to investigate the Department of Justice’s investigation into the alleged “mishandling.”
