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Special counsel report on Biden’s handling of classified documents

A special counsel report released Thursday found evidence that President Joe Biden willfully retained and shared highly classified information when he was a private citizen, including about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, but concluded that criminal charges were not warranted.

By Steve Ruark and Evan Vucci/AP, and Justice Department via AP

Feb. 8, 2024

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President Joe Biden welcomes the finding of a special counsel report that he would not face criminal charges in his handling of classified documents.
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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT VIA AP

This image, contained in the report from special counsel Robert Hur, shows notebooks seized from a bookcase in a second-floor home office of President Joe Biden in Wilmington, Del., on Jan. 20, during a search by FBI agents.
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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT VIA AP

This image, contained in the report from special counsel Robert Hur, shows notebooks in a file cabinet under a printer that were seized in first-floor home office of President Joe Biden in Wilmington, Del., on Jan. 20, during a search by FBI agents.
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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT VIA AP

This image, contained in the report from special counsel Robert Hur, shows notebooks seized from a file cabinet under printers in first- floor home office of President Joe Biden in Wilmington, Del., on Jan. 20, during a search by FBI agents.
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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT VIA AP

This image, contained in the report from special counsel Robert Hur, shows shows a binder containing copies of notecards and schedules for President Joe Biden during his time as vice president.
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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT VIA AP

This image, contained in the report from special counsel Robert Hur, shows a box of files, found in the garage of President Joe Biden and annotating the "Facts First folder" where classified documents relating to Afghanistan were found in Wilmington, Del., during a search by the FBI on Dec. 21, 2022.
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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT VIA AP

This image, contained in the report from special counsel Robert Hur, shows the "Af/Pak 1" notebook with a Thanksgiving 2009 memo from Biden to President Barack Obama, found in a file cabinet under a television in President Joe Biden's first- floor home office in Wilmington, Del., on Jan. 20, during a search by FBI agents.
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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT VIA AP

This image, contained in the report from special counsel Robert Hur, shows notebooks in a file cabinet under a television in the first-floor home office of President Joe Biden in Wilmington, Del., on Jan. 20, during a search by FBI agents. The notebooks included one Biden used to chronicle the Fall 2009 Afghanistan policy review.
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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT VIA AP

This image, contained in the report from special counsel Robert Hur, shows a file cabinet under a television in the first- floor home office of President Joe Biden in Wilmington, Del., on Jan. 20, during a search by FBI agents. In the file cabinets, agents found and seized notebooks, including one Biden used to chronicle the Fall 2009 Afghanistan policy review.
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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT VIA AP

This image, contained in the report from special counsel Robert Hur, shows the first- floor home office of President Joe Biden in Wilmington, Del., on Jan. 20, during a search by FBI agents. In this main office agents found notebooks, including one Biden used to chronicle the Fall 2009 Afghanistan policy review.
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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT VIA AP

This image, contained in the report from special counsel Robert Hur, shows the box where classified Afghanistan documents were found in the garage of President Joe Biden in Wilmington, Del., during a search by the FBI on Dec. 21, 2022.
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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT VIA AP

This image, contained in the report from special counsel Robert Hur, shows boxes in a storage closet at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, in March 2021.
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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT VIA AP

This image, contained in the report from special counsel Robert Hur, shows the envelope labeled "Eyes Only" with a handwritten note reading "VPOTUS," that contained classified documents that were found in Box 3 of documents housed at the Penn Biden Center in Washington.
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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT VIA AP

This image, contained in the report from special counsel Robert Hur, and marked with the number 1, shows a damaged box where classified documents were found in the garage of President Joe Biden in Wilmington, Del., during a search by the FBI on Dec. 21, 2022.
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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT VIA AP

This image, contained in the indictment against former President Donald Trump, shows boxes of records stored in a bathroom and shower in the Lake Room at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS

President Joe Biden walks to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Thursday, Feb. 8, in Washington.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS

U.S. Attorney Robert Hur arrives at U.S. District Court in Baltimore on Nov. 21, 2019.

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