The office of the United States President, Joe Biden has named a special counsel to probe the improper storage of classified documents at his home and a former office.
The Biden administration named the special team on Thursday. The team is believed to be an echo of a wider-ranging inquiry directed at his main political rival, Donald Trump.
The White House through its lawyer, Richard Sauber said in a statement that some material was found in a locked garage at Biden’s home and an adjacent room and pledged to cooperate.
“We are confident that a thorough review will show that these documents were inadvertently misplaced.” The statement said.
The president on Thursday while speaking about the wisdom of storing important material next to his Corvette, said both were in a locked garage. “People know I take classified documents and classified material seriously,” he added.
The head of National Security Counselors, a law firm, Kel McClanahan, “the facts cannot be more different. The only similarity is there were classified documents that were taken out of the White House to somewhere else.”
The US Attorney General Merrick Garland said Robert Hur, who served as the top federal prosecutor in Maryland under Trump, will act as a quasi-independent prosecutor to determine whether classified records from Biden’s time as vice president had been improperly stored at his residence in Delaware and a think tank in Washington. Garland said Hur will examine “whether any person or entity violated the law.”