Biden in Talks with Special Counsel for Classified Documents Probe: Report
Biden stored records at his Delaware home alongside Corvette Stingray
Special Prosecutor Robert Hur (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images).
President Joe Biden’s lawyers have been engaged in negotiations with Special Counsel Robert Hur for the past month. They are discussing the possibility of an interview as part of an investigation into the president’s handling of classified documents.
NBC News reports that Hur’s team has been in contact with Biden’s lawyers to determine the timing, location, and topics that would be covered in the potential interview. The negotiations are ongoing, and no agreement has been reached yet on whether Biden will sit down for an interview. Biden is being represented in the investigation by Bob Bauer, a seasoned Democratic attorney who is married to Biden adviser Anita Dunn.
Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Hur as special counsel on Jan. 12 to investigate the handling of classified records found at Biden’s home in Delaware and his office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C. A batch of documents was discovered by an attorney for Biden at the Penn Biden Center on Nov. 2, just days before the midterm elections. However, the discovery was not disclosed until late December. The documents are said to be from Biden’s time as vice president and involve intelligence related to the United Kingdom, Ukraine, and Iran. Biden stored some of the records in his garage, right next to his classic Corvette Stingray convertible.
The pace of Hur’s investigation stands in stark contrast to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s probe into former president Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents. Smith, who was appointed as special counsel on Nov. 18, charged Trump on June 8 with mishandling classified documents after leaving office, and issued additional charges against the Republican on July 27.
While Garland has praised Hur as an ”even-handed” prosecutor, some Republicans have raised concerns about his impartiality due to his past work at the Justice Department. In 2018, Hur was part of a Justice Department team that attempted to block the release of a Republican memo exposing flaws in the government’s investigation of the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, as reported by the Washington Free Beacon Washington Free Beacon.
“Hur looks like a fixer for the Democrats and the Deep State,” said former representative Devin Nunes (R., Calif.), the author of the memo, in an interview with the Free Beacon earlier this year.
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