It has been noted that Special counsel Robert Hur is set to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on March 12 on his investigation into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents, as per The Epoch Times.
The hearing will be about Mr. Hur’s recently released report on the probe in which the special counsel declined to bring charges against the president but found that he had “willfully” retained classified documents.
The report added findings on President Biden’s “poor memory,” which led to intense scrutiny of the president’s mental acuity, while sparking backlash from the administration. Biden officials have described the characterizations as politically motivated.
“Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen,” Mr. Hur wrote in a 388-page report to Attorney General Merrick Garland.
The materials, the report stated, included “marked classified documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, and notebooks containing Mr. Biden’s handwritten entries about issues of national security and foreign policy implicating sensitive intelligence sources and methods.”
The FBI collected these items last year, during a search of President Biden’s residence in Wilmington, Delaware. The FBI also searched the president’s home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where they also found classified materials.
Nonetheless, Mr. Hur said that “the evidence does not establish Mr. Biden’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt” and that “prosecution of Mr. Biden is also unwarranted based on … consideration of the aggravating and mitigating factors set forth in the Department of Justice’s Principles of Federal Prosecution.”
