WASHINGTON, Jan 11 US President Joe Biden is serious about stories about the discovery of classified documents in his former office in a think tank in Washington, the papers are still being studied by the Department of Justice, said White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre.
«As the president himself said, he takes classified information seriously. notes came as a surprise to him. He does not know what is in them,» Jean-Pierre said at a briefing.
According to her, although from the moment the documents were discovered — according to the American media, this happened in early November last years — before the appearance of information about what happened, two months passed, the administration believes that it is behaving correctly in this situation. «As soon as his [Biden's] lawyers realized that the documents were there, they did the right thing and immediately filed them. As he said, his team is fully cooperating in the study of what happened,» said Jean-Pierre.
«As the President has said, as my colleagues have said, we are committed to doing the right thing, doing the right thing. We will provide further details at the appropriate time,» she added.
CBS News on Monday reported that the classified the documents were found in Biden's office at the think tank named after him in Washington. Materials relating to the period when the US leader was vice president were discovered by his confidants on the eve of the midterm elections in early November. The White House acknowledged that Biden used the designated office space in Washington between 2017 and 2020. According to media reports, among the secret documents were intelligence data and materials from briefings about Ukraine, Iran and the UK, they are dated 2013-2016. Possession of classified materials removed from the White House was the reason for a search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate last year and threatens him with criminal prosecution.