About 10 documents marked classified and discovered at the Penn Biden Center included top-secret material, according to a federal law enforcement official familiar with the investigation.
Top Secret is the highest of the three main levels of secrecy: Confidential, Secret, and completely secret. A leak of classified information could cause “extremely serious damage.”
Fewer than 10 classified documents were found at Biden’s residence in Wilmington, Delaware, and none were marked Top Secret.
The source said the total number of known classified documents is about 20. between two places.
This was reported by CBS News on Monday about 10 documents with classified markings were found at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington. The documents were from the office of President Biden’s vice president at the center.
Then on Thursday, the White House confirmed that a second set of classified records dating from Mr. Biden’s time as vice president had been found at his home in Wilmington, Delaware.
On the same day, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed special adviserRobert Goure to oversee the investigation of the documents.
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