Biden fully cooperating over secret documents: Khanna
PRESIDENT Joe Biden is fully cooperating and has done everything that the procedures required after classified documents were found at his private office in Washington DC and his Delaware home, Indian-American Congressman Ro Khanna said.
Five additional pages of classified material have been found at Biden’s family home in Delaware, the White House said, bringing the total number of secret documents uncovered to about two dozen files.
‘No one is going to defend taking documents that are classified. But the point is that the president is fully cooperating, and he did everything that the procedures required, from what we can tell. As soon as those documents were found, he reported them to law enforcement,’ Congressman Khanna said.
‘I think, if (former) President (Donald) Trump had done the same thing, this would be a non-issue,’ he said when told that both Trump and Biden took documents out of the White House that they shouldn’t have taken them.
The initial cache of documents – 10 classified files from Biden’s time as vice president found at his former private office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement – was found on November 2 but not revealed to the public until Monday.
Biden used the office from 2017 to 2019 when he was an honorary professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Last week, it emerged that a second batch of documents had been found on December 20 by Biden aides in a garage and adjacent room at his private home in Wilmington, Delaware.
The White House is facing increasing criticism for its lack of transparency with the public over the documents.
Republican Congressman John Garamendi said the documents and the whole issue are before the special counsel, and the investigations will go forward with regard to the classified documents that were found.
‘It’s an embarrassment, no doubt about it. Is there more to it? I doubt it, but we’ll find out from the special counsel as he goes about his business,’ he said in response to a question