U.S. Justice Department investigators questioned Patrick Moore, the president’s lawyer, Joe Biden, who found the classified documents in one of the president’s offices and which date back to his time as Barack Obama’s vice president, sources close to the matter have revealed to CNN television network.
Moore, who first found the classified material while collecting documents from Biden in his office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington, has thus played a key role in the case.
Since then, some 20 classified documents from Biden’s tenure as vice president have been found both in his former office at the Penn Biden Center and at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, as confirmed by the White House itself.
However, Biden’s counsel confirmed that his team returned the classified reports found at the Penn Biden Center to the National Archives, where this type of material is kept, a day after they were found in early November.
Moore also turned over several documents that were not classified, including speeches and material that had been sent from the center to Moore’s Boston office.
Investigators from U.S. Attorney General John Lausch’s office conducted the questioning of Moore although it was not recorded in a report because it was considered «informal.»
CNN has indicated that the U.S. Attorney’s office questioned several people close to Biden, including Kathy Chung, who worked as an advisor to Biden when he was vice president and now works for the Pentagon.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
