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President Joe Biden has thrown former President Donald Trump legal and political lifelines with his own classified documents scandal. Trump is facing charges of obstruction of justice and mishandling of classified documents after his possible repeated resistance to requests from the National Archives to return classified documents in his possession.
According to CBS News, we’ve now learned that Biden’s attorneys found around 10 classified U.S. government documents in a Biden-linked think tank on Nov. 2. CNN reports that some of these documents were classified as top secret and bore «sensitive compartmented information» control caveats. Documents in Trump’s possession also had SCI control caveats.
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That matters because SCI caveats entail a connection to highly sensitive U.S. government sources and methods of gathering intelligence. Efforts to play down these Trump-Biden document similarities tellingly evade the SCI classification concern. That’s because the preeminent basis of classification laws is the protection of national security. And if Trump’s mishandling of SCI materials represented a threat to national security, well, so did Biden’s.
