Special counsel criticizes Biden’s handling of classified documents but announces no charges

Published February 8, 2024 2:59pm ET



The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it found President Joe Biden mishandled classified documents, including some related to Afghanistan, in the time since he was vice president and senator but that his actions did not amount to criminal conduct.

Special counsel Robert Hur detailed the findings in a lengthy 345-page report, the culmination of a yearlong investigation into how documents with classified markings ended up at Biden’s office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C., and at his home in Wilmington, Delaware.

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