Classified Documents in Joe Biden's Closet
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 11 January 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:22.0 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:27.0 | President Biden acknowledges that about 10 classified documents were discovered last year at a private office he used after leaving the vice presidency. |
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| 0:41.0 | Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We are joined today by my colleague, the one and only columnist Kim Strassel, welcome Kim. |
| 0:49.0 | CBS News had the scoop that days before the midterm elections in November, roughly 10 documents with classification markings were found amid President Biden's vice presidential files at an office he used from 2017 to about 2019. |
| 1:05.0 | According to CNN report, those documents included intelligence memos and briefing materials that covered topics including Ukraine, Iran and the United Kingdom. |
| 1:16.0 | Some of those documents were reportedly in the category of a sensitive compartmental information, which means that they were essentially above top secret. |
| 1:26.0 | And here is how President Biden addressed the matter at a summit in Mexico City on Tuesday. |
| 1:31.0 | When my lawyers were clearing out my office at the University of Pennsylvania, they set up an office for me, secure office in the capital. |
| 1:38.0 | When I, the four years after being vice president, I was a professor at Penn, they found some documents in a box, you know, lock cabinet or at least a closet. |
| 1:49.0 | And as soon as they did, they realized there were several classified documents in that box. And they did what they should have done. |
| 1:57.0 | They immediately called the archives, immediately called the archives, turned them over to the archives, and I was briefed about this discovery and surprised and learned that there were any government records that were taken there to that office. |
| 2:12.0 | But I don't know what's in the documents. |
| 2:15.0 | I've, my lawyers have not suggested I ask what documents they were. I've turned over the boxes, they've turned over the boxes to the archives, and we're cooperating fully, cooperating fully with the review, and which I hope will be finished soon. |
| 2:30.0 | And there will be more detail at that time. |
| 2:34.0 | According to news reporting this week, the Justice Department is now investigating how these documents ended up in a closet in Biden's office. |
| 2:42.0 | Next of this, of course, is the Justice Department's simultaneous investigation of President Trump before retaining class of documents at Mar-Lago, which led to the dramatic extraordinary FBI raid of his home last year. |
| 2:55.0 | And at that time, here's what President Biden said on 60 minutes. |
| 2:59.0 | When you saw the photograph of the top secret documents laid out on the floor of Mar-Lago, what did you think to yourself looking at that image? |
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