Biden ‘Willfully’ Kept Classified Docs But Won’t Be Charged Over It, Special Counsel Says

The special counsel investigating President Joe Biden said in a lengthy report released Thursday that he would not recommend that criminal charges be filed over his handling of sensitive documents as a private citizen, despite finding evidence that he “willfully retained” and even “disclosed” classified material.

“We conclude that the evidence does not establish Mr. Biden’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt,” Robert Hur’s office said in the 345-page report, and that no criminal charges were “warranted” in the case.

After leaving the vice presidency in 2017, Biden held onto classified documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, as well as notebooks containing handwritten entries about issues of national security and foreign policy “implicating sensitive intelligence sources and methods,” according to Hur’s report.

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