Wow, I thought I was only DOE/NNSA/OST guy on this board. What years?
Justice Department opens criminal investigation into leaked Pentagon documents
that “appear to contain sensitive and highly classified material”
CBS News ^ | April 9, 2023 | By Jordan Freiman
Posted on 4/10/2023, 7:01:55 AM by Oldeconomybuyer
The Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into the leak of documents that “appear to contain sensitive and highly classified material,” a Defense Department spokesperson said Sunday. The Pentagon was also still assessing the validity of the documents, the spokesperson said.
“An interagency effort has been stood up, focused on assessing the impact these photographed documents could have on U.S. national security and on our Allies and partners,” Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh said in a statement. “Over the weekend, U.S. officials have engaged with Allies and partners and have informed relevant congressional committees of jurisdiction about the disclosure.”
A document marked “top secret” that shows the daily disposition of forces in Ukraine was leaked and began showing up on social media, a U.S. official confirmed Friday.
The official said that someone apparently took a picture of the document and posted it on the social media platform Telegram before it was then picked up on Twitter.
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US Classified docs found in Biden’s Delaware homes at least five times since Nov 2023.
Ntl Archives: over 1,100 then-VP Biden records found 11/22 at U of Penn’s “Biden Center”
Just The News ^ | March 30, 2023 | By Madeleine Hubbard
FR Posted on 3/31/2023, 4:20:43 PM by Red Badger
The National Archives has admitted that approximately 1,170 pages of records from President Joe Biden’s time as vice president were found at the Penn Biden Center in November 2022, and the agency said it does not have custody of any records discovered at Biden’s homes in Delaware.
The America First Legal Foundation highlighted the revelation Thursday by publishing a letter that the National Archives sent to the conservative legal group in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.
The Archives told the legal group it “must deny your request in full for approximately 1,170 pages” found at the Penn Biden Center in the president’s former office because they are the “subject of an ongoing law enforcement investigation.”
The agency gave the same reasoning for denying America First access to the nine boxes of records found at Biden’s attorney’s office in Boston. It is unclear what documents were included in that cache, but The Associated Press reported last month that it did not appear to include any classified documents.
America First also requested all records found at Biden’s family home or vacation home in Delaware.
“NARA does not have physical custody of any Vice Presidential records retrieved from these locations. Because we lack custody of the records, we cannot respond to your request for these records,” the Archives said.
It is unclear who has custody of any records from Biden’s homes, including multiple classified documents that were found in his Wilmington house.
Classified records have been found in Biden’s possession at least five times since November.
FBI searched Biden Delaware home, found documents marked classified
Associated Press via Currently ^ | January 22, 2023 | Zeke Miller & Michael Balsamo
Posted on 1/21/2023, 8:10:54 PM by John W
The FBI searched President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware Jan 2023 and located six additional documents containing classification markings and also took possession of some of his notes, the president’s lawyer said Saturday.
Bob Bauer, the president’s personal lawyer, said the search of the entire premises lasted nearly 13 hours. The apparently classified documents spanned Biden’s time in the Senate and the vice presidency, while the notes dated to his time as vice president. The level of classification, and whether they remained classified, was not immediately clear as the Justice Department reviews the records.
The search followed more than a week after Biden’s attorneys found six other classified documents in the president’s home library from his time as vice president, and nearly three months after lawyers found a small number of classified records at his former offices at the Penn Biden Center in Washington. It came a day after Biden maintained that “there’s no there there” on the document discoveries, which have become a political headache for the president and complicated the Justice Department’s probe into former President Donald Trump’s retention of classified documents and official records after he left office.
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