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SDavis "US President Joe Biden was found by a special counsel to have "wilfully retained and disclosed classified materials" but he will not face charges.
A Special Counsel report said he had kept secret documents related to military and foreign policy in Afghanistan after serving as vice-president until 2017.
The report from Special Counsel Robert Hur - appointed by the justice department - was released after an investigation that lasted more than a year and related to files found at Mr Biden's home and former private office from 2022-23.
The report revealed for the first time that the documents were classified as Top Secret - the highest level of classification, and related to Afghanistan.
The files included notebooks containing Mr Biden's entries about national security and foreign policy matters "implicating sensitive intelligence sources and methods".
It criticised Mr Biden for sharing some of the sensitive material in those notebooks with a ghostwriter for his memoir.
“Finally, Mr. Biden had strong motivations to ignore the proper procedures for safeguarding the classified information in his notebooks. He decided months before leaving office to write a book and began meeting with his ghostwriter while still vice president,” page 231 of Hur’s final report states.
“After his vice presidency, the notebooks continued to be an invaluable resource that he consulted liberally.”
Jordan cited that portion of Hur’s report and noted Joe Biden made $8 million dollars from his book deal after asking Hur if he could specify Biden’s motivations.
“Joe Biden had 8 million reasons to break the rules. He took classified information and shared it with the guy who was writing the book. He knew the rules but he broke them for 8 million dollars in a book advance,” Jordan said.
