Emails between President Joe Biden’s attorneys and the National Archives detail efforts to coordinate the transfer of a previously unknown cache of documents held at a Boston law office last November.
The boxes are mentioned by government archivists coordinating a search of Biden’s Washington, D.C., think tank after classified files were discovered there, according to 74 pages of emails between the National Archives and Biden’s personal attorneys released Friday in a Freedom of Information Act request.
“Please ensure that the boxes in your office in Boston remain secure in a locked space and are not accessed by anyone,” General Counsel for the National Archives Gary Stern wrote on Nov. 7, 2021.
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A day later, Stern asked Pat Moore, then a law partner at Hemenway & Barnes as well as a lawyer for Biden’s 2020 campaign and former White House attorney, whether the boxes could be moved to the JFK Library the following day.
Moore responds on Nov. 9 to connect Stern with his law partner, “who can work with you tomorrow to access our office and pick up materials there.”
It is not known whether the files are classified. The president is currently under investigation by a Justice Department special counsel over his handling of secret documents dating from the Obama administration.
Asked to comment on the boxes on Friday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre referred questions to the counsel’s office.
The White House counsel’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
The emails show the government’s effort to coordinate a search of the Penn Biden Center for Global Engagement in Washington after the president’s attorneys found classified documents at the site.
The White House has defended its handling of the documents case, including its failure to disclose an FBI search of the Penn Biden Center in the weeks after the files were discovered.
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Biden’s aides have repeated that the president is cooperating with federal authorities.
Aides promised “exhaustive” transparency in the White House’s handling of the case, which became public in early January when Biden’s attorneys confirmed a CBS report that about 10 classified documents dating to the Obama administration had been found at the Penn Biden Center.
