Special Counsel Robert Hur missed nine boxes of documents potentially marked classified, according to a pair of top Republican senators who investigated the president’s mishandling of top-secret material.
On Friday, Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Chuck Grassley of Iowa sent a letter to Hur, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding details about the classified documents investigation that was ultimately closed without charges. In a report made public last week, Hur concluded President Joe Biden was too senile to face felony charges related to mishandling classified material.
“Biden would likely present himself to the jury, as he did during our interview with him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” Hur’s team wrote. “It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him by — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”
Johnson and Grassley say Hur’s investigation was incomplete.
“Over the course of our multi-year oversight work, we obtained information from [the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)] relating to its involvement, knowledge, and role with respect to the existence of classified and unclassified documents at multiple locations from Joe Biden’s vice presidency,” the senators wrote. “As part of our inquiry, we publicly revealed last year that NARA had retrieved nine boxes of Biden records from the Boston office of Patrick Moore, one of Biden’s personal counsels.”
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