archives office inspector general contacted a prosecutor at the department of justice. it informed him that the white house had notified the archives that documents bearing classification markings were identified at the office of the penn biden center for diplomacy and global engagement on november 9th the fbi commenced an assessment consistent with standard protocols to understand where the classified information had been mishandled in violation of federal law. on november 14th, pursuant to section 600 point to be of the special counsel regulations, i assign the u.s. attorney laos to conduct an initial investigation to inform my decision whether to appoint a special counsel. on this number 20th, president biden s personal counsel informed mr. laos that additional documents were identified in the garage of the private residence in wilmington delaware. this morning president biden s personal counselor called mr. lausch and stated that additional document bearing classification
hello, everyone. i m bianna in new york. pressure mounts for garland to appoint a special counsel to oversee an investigation into president biden s handling of classified government records. we are following this from every angle, so let s begin with cnn s evan perez. what are you learning about what we can expect to hear from the attorney general in just a few moments? reporter: well, bianna, we obviously know that the justice department attorney general garland are in a difficult position given the fact that we are learning still new details about these documents that the president s team says that they found now at multiple locations. the justice department is facing the decision right now whether to appoint a special counsel, whether to open a fuller investigation. we know that, at least at this point, there was an initial review that was done by the u.s. attorney in chicago. that part of the investigation is completed, and so now the decision from garland that we expe
he s a hardworking guy, a straight shooter. i knew him when he was the assistant, principal assistant deputy attorney general as we referred to him is the paid ag for rob rosenstein. he was a key member of that leadership team the department at the time. attorney general jeff sessions and rod rosenstein being his bosses. he s a straightforward guy with a right background and reputation. obviously deeply connected on the republican side of things, we should protect him for a very short period of time. this as the sitting president s immediate predecessor, whether be interest inside the u.s. department in finding out whether they are classified documents that got removed after other presidencies? there s always an interest in returning classified documents back to the authorized storage places where they belong. i think the fact that we haven t seen issues like this
notified about this batch of documents, the initial batch was found november 4th and november 14th. he appointed john loush on december 20th. now they were informed that an additional batch of documents were found. tell us what you make of what we just heard from the attorney general, specifically with regards to robert hur being named special prosecutor. i think the selection of robert hur is a logical and sound one. as you can see from the brief resumé the attorney general laid out, mr. hur essentially was a career department of justice prosecutor and attorney, both served as an assistant u.s. attorney in the district of maryland, which is of course located in baltimore, and then spent some time significantly working at doj main in the headquarters. i worked with rob when he was appointed as the principal assistant deputy attorney general in 2017. always found him to be
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New Year’s Day is supposed to herald new beginnings, new possibilities, new hopes for all Americans of whatever political stripe. But if the author of an opinion article published in the
Hill in the early hours of 2021 has his way, before long, our country will be back trudging to the beat of the establishment GOP’s drum, because he revealed all Americans need right now is Barack Obama in charge of the Department of Justice. And that’s just the beginning of this guy’s bad ideas, apparently.
Douglas Kmiec, who works as professor emeritus of constitutional law at Pepperdine University School of Law and once worked in the Office of Legal Counsel for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, according to his bio, starts by writing that he doesn’t get why these congressmen and senators are causing a fuss about the Electoral College certification, which I wrote about earlier tonight.