Biden Admin Officials Blame National Archives for Classified Docs Scandal

Former and current Biden administration officials have reportedly blamed the National Archives for mishandling President Joe Biden’s classified documents stashed in three separate locations.

A Friday CNN report that was cited said so. “former and current administration officials and others familiar with the process,” The National Archives Refused to treat then-Vice President Biden’s records with the “same high regard” as it did former President Obama’s records.

“While the National Archives sends staff members to the White House to gather files and papers of the President, they do not treat all vice presidential papers with the same high regard, officials said,” CNN reported.

“Staff members from the vice president’s office are often left to sort through papers themselves, officials say, rather than specialists from the Archives,” The report went on. “While classified documents hold the same level of secrecy for presidents, vice presidents and anyone with proper security clearance to handle them, officials say, it would be easier for papers outside the Oval Office to be mixed up or left behind.”

The report also stated the documents that were left behind by the National Archives were ultimately dumped at the Penn Biden Center, where a trove of classified documents was unearthed by Biden’s attorneys in early November 2022:

Many of the boxes of personal items – not deemed covered by the records requirements to submit to the National Archives – were transported from the vice president’s office to a temporary facility about one block away from the White House, run by the General Services Administration. They were then moved to another temporary location before finally being transferred to the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement offices, which Biden established in early 2018.

The report did not include information about how classified documents got to two other secure locations, such the Biden family garage.

NBC News reported Thursday that Biden’s former executive assistant Kathy Chung, hired to the post after Hunter’s recommendation, was questioned by law enforcement over the classified documents stashed in three separate locations. Chung’s employment as Joe Biden’s assistant was in part due to Hunter, who Recommendation his father hire her, according to Hunter’s laptop emails.

Hunter and Chung remained in close contact over the course of Joe Biden’s tenure as vice president. They corresponded with each other, including arranging family business meetings for Biden and Amy Gutmann (former University of Pennsylvania President), who Joe Biden later appointed U.S. Ambassador to Germany.