Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the appointment of a special counsel on Thursday after lawyers for President Joe Biden found potentially classified documents at his former office space at the Penn Biden Center in November and in his Deleware home in December.
The Biden White House disclosed the discovery of documents at the Penn Biden Center on Monday and then disclosed the discovery of the additional documents at his home on Thursday.
On Thursday, Garland announced he had appointed former federal prosecutor Robert Hur as a special counsel to investigate the documents discovered at Biden’s home and office space.
Several Republican lawmakers had called for Garland to appoint a special counsel in the lead-up to his announcement on Thursday….}