National security experts criticize Biden’s handling of classified documents

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But to some national security experts, the disclosure that Biden told his ghostwriter that he discovered classified documents in his Virginia home in 2017 — with no indication he returned them — was unexpected and troubling.

So was the revelation that Biden disclosed classified information to the ghostwriter on at least three occasions, and that he stored notebooks full of state secrets in unlocked drawers in his home office.

“The report also notes how, in early 2017, the President did find another marked classified document and did turn it in, via his aide, which illustrates precisely what he told the special counsel,” Sams said.

But Hur’s report says the documents found in a box in Biden’s garage, many with classification markings, mainly relate to his role in opposing a 2009 Obama administration troop surge in Afghanistan.

The special counsel said the evidence suggests these were the same documents that Biden was referring to in 2017, when he told a ghostwriter in a recorded interview that he had “just found all the classified stuff downstairs,” in a Virginia home he rented after leaving the vice presidency.

The Hur report found that in October 2016, as then-Vice President Biden was gathering notecards to use in writing his memoir, a military aide working in his office raised concerns that the notes contained classified material.

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