The Biden administration admitted this week that more than 1,100 pages of vice presidential records were located at President Joe Biden’s former office at a think tank in Washington, D.C.
In response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by America First Legal, a group founded by former Trump administration official Stephen Miller, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) said it “must deny” the request “in full for approximately 1,170 pages” found at the Penn Biden Center.
NARA’s March 29 letter attributed the rejection to special counsel Robert Hur’s ongoing investigation into Biden’s handling of classified government documents to determine whether anyone broke the law. The letter, signed by Archival Operations Division Director Stephannie Oriabure, offers more clarity about the sheer number of pages investigators may be examining.
In the days before the 2022 election, Biden’s team said they found about 10 records marked classified while clearing out Biden’s office at the D.C. think tank.
Since then, searches by Biden’s lawyers and the FBI have taken place at Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, his beach house in Rehoboth, Delaware, which have turned up more materials of interest to investigators. NARA also informed Congress its staff obtained nine boxes of materials from the Boston office of a personal attorney to Biden that had been moved from the Penn Biden Center.