Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday announced Robert Hur will serve as special counsel to investigate classified documents found at President Joe Biden’s home and former office from his time as vice president.
PUBLISHED 7:30 AM ET Jan. 12, 2023
Following that discovery, Biden's attorneys searched Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, residences, in coordination with the Department of Justice, Richard Sauber, Special Counsel to the President, said in a statement “Based on Mr. Lausch’s initial investigation, I concluded that under the Special Counsel regulations, it was in the public interest to appoint a special counsel,” Garland said Thursday. “In the days since, while Mr. Lausch continued the investigation, the department identified Mr. Hur for appointment of Special Counsel.”
The appointment of yet another special counsel to investigate the handling of classified documents is a remarkable turn of events, legally and politically, for a Justice Department that has spent months looking into the retention by Donald Trump of more than 300 documents with classification markings found at the former president’s Florida estate.
The revelation came days after an attorney for the president said Biden's lawyers had discovered a "small number" of classified documents at his former office space in Washington.
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