There’s more information that has come out on the classified documents in Joe Biden’s office at the Penn Biden Center and the bombshell doesn’t just potentially touch Joe Biden.
The documents were found in an office in the Penn Biden Center, part of the University of Pennsylvania, by a private lawyer who was closing out the office. Why are they closing out the office in November 2022, if Biden hasn’t been working for Penn since he began his campaign for president?
The lawyer saw a manila folder that was labeled “personal,” opened the envelope, and noticed there were classified documents inside. The lawyer closed the envelope and called NARA, the source said. The envelope reportedly contained 10 classified documents including U.S. intelligence memos and briefing materials that pertained to Ukraine, Iran, and the United Kingdom, and the documents were dated between 2013 to 2016, a source told ABC. The classified documents were found in three or four boxes that also contained unclassified papers.
Most of the boxes in the office were materials related to personal Biden family things, like Beau Biden’s funeral arrangements, according to the source.
Notice what the source doesn’t say if the documents were secured in any way.
How secure was that when it’s a public building and if it’s in Biden’s old office where he hasn’t been, presumably in some time? Biden himself just claimed he had no idea they were even there. If we were to believe that, he’s admitting that he had no idea what happened to classified documents and how they turned up in his office. What else might he have in all his various homes and offices? Who might have had access to the documents?
At least 10 senior Biden administration officials also worked at the Penn Biden Center since Biden opened the think tank in 2018, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl, and White House counselor Steven Richetti. Blinken and Richetti were both managing directors of the Center, while Kahl was a strategic consultant.
In addition, Spencer Boyer, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Europe and NATO policy, was a senior fellow; Jeffrey Prescott, the deputy to the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was a strategic consultant; Ariana Berengaut, a senior adviser to the national security adviser, was a director; Michael Carpenter, the U.S. representative to the organization for security and cooperation in Europe, was a managing director; Juan Gonzalez, a special assistant to the president, was a senior fellow; and Carlyn Reichel, a special assistant to Biden and senior director for speech writing and strategic initiatives, was the director of communications at the Penn Biden Center.
Brian McKeon was a senior director at the think tank and was the deputy secretary of state for management and resources until last month.
On top of that, as we noted, the National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group, filed a complaint with the Department of Justice in October 2020, regarding the lack of transparency of funding of the Center and raising a lot of questions about the millions of dollars in Chinese donations to the University of Pennsylvania.
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) has asked the White House to turn over all records and communications related to the classified material by Jan. 24.
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