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Handling Classified Documents 101

How Joe Biden’s classified material should have been handled at the end of the Obama administration: A Dispatch Explainer.
Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe Testifies before Congress
A binder containing classified material marked Secret sits on the witness table during a Senate hearing. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

The Justice Department is investigating what went wrong in the handling of three tranches of Obama-era classified documents recently found in President Joe Biden’s Delaware home and an affiliated think tank.

Special counsel Robert Hur hopes to learn whether Biden or his staff broke any laws connected with the discovery, transport, or turnover of classified documents.

Audrey is a former reporter for The Dispatch.

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