US President Joe Biden is in hot water after the US Federal Bureau of Investigation discovered the notebooks that he used during his time as a Vice President.
According to a person familiar with the investigation, President Joe Biden’s notebooks were among the items the FBI seized from one of his homes in Delaware during a search last week.
In an exclusive report published by the CNBC, it was revealed that “the notebooks were seized because Biden’s notes on some of the pages relate to his official business as vice president, including details of his diplomatic engagements during the Obama administration, and may refer to classified information, this same person said, adding that the notebooks do not have classified markings on them, but some of the handwritten notes inside them could be considered as such given their sensitive content.”
“Other pages in the notebooks, while they may not contain potentially classified information, could still be considered government property under the Presidential Records Act because they pertain to official business Biden conducted as vice president, according to the person familiar with the investigation,” the report added.
The anonymous source also revealed that the notebooks reportedly include a mix of handwritten notes from Biden on different topics which are both official and personal.
“On some pages Biden wrote down things about his family or his life unrelated to public office, said this same person. On other pages, he memorialized in writing some of his experiences or thoughts as vice president at the time, according to this same source. The number of notebooks Biden kept is large, according to the person familiar with the details, but they did not know the precise number,” CNBC wrote in its exclusive report.
Following the discovery of the notebooks, Biden’s personal lawyer’s spokesperson, Bob Bauer claimed that “as noted in the statement released on January 14, consistent with our view of the requirements of our cooperation with the DOJ in this matter, we will not comment on the accuracy of reports of this nature.”
When asked to comment, the Justice Department and the FBI refused to give statements.
Last week, the National Archives reportedly requested their offices to search for any materials in their possession that might connect to their tenures in office “to determine whether bodies of materials previously assumed to be personal in nature might inadvertently contain presidential or vice presidential records subject to the [Presidential Records Act], whether classified or unclassified.”
