The White House stressed that the discussions with the special counsel team were “voluntary”.
US President Joe Biden met with federal investigators multiple times in recent days, as the Justice Department seeks to determine how classified documents wound up in his home and personal office without proper approval.
The president sat down with Special Counsel Robert Hur to discuss the documents case on Sunday and Monday, the White House confirmed, noting that the interviews had “concluded” and were strictly “voluntary.”
“As we have said from the beginning, the president and the White House are cooperating with this investigation, and as it has been appropriate, we have provided relevant updates publicly,” White House spokesman Ian Sams said in a statement, vowing to be “as transparent as we can” while preserving “the integrity of the investigation.”
The Justice Department launched the documents probe last November, after the president’s lawyers reported that a trove of secret files had been found in one of Biden’s private offices. Additional material later turned up at Biden’s Delaware home, and in January Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Hur to lead an investigation into “the possible unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents.”
Hur has reportedly questioned Biden’s “closest aides and advisers” as part of a “quiet inquiry” over the past nine months, including top officials such as Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, according to the New York Times.
Investigators have worked to determine the chain of custody for the sensitive documents, and whether Biden’s team “adhered to security protocols in handling and packing up official documents and private notes from his vice presidency,” the outlet added.
Until Monday, it was unclear whether the president would submit for an in-person interview, with the White House declining to comment on the matter previously. Hur’s team has similarly offered few details about the investigation to the public.
The Biden probe coincided with another major classified documents case involving former President Donald Trump, who was indicted on 37 felony counts linked to the alleged mishandling of secret files in June. Federal agents previously raided the ex-president’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida and turned up a large number of classified papers, though Trump maintains he was authorized to possess the documents and denies any wrongdoing.
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Anyone else get the feeling that the new Conflict is simply so they can hide this so called investigation into biden yet have it be visible enough so that it’s now just in the lamestream media background and therefore they can’t be accused of hiding it, either way it will be a whitewash. As we know most looney leftists never read beyond the headlines. Hell most ordinary people as well.
OMG 40 decapitated babies got gang raped to cover for the Beijing Biden??? Everyone took the bait.
Nothing will happen with the criminal slime in DC until the American People stage a revolution…and an armed one at that!
This is why THEY are in a hurry to ban firearms…! And that won’t succeed either!
World War Three is multi-faceted, consisting of a hybrid war that will be many civil wars simultaneously, and overseen by the Zio-Globalist cabal!
i am afraid you are right.