In 2018, former vice president Biden announced the creation of the “Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement” in Washington, D.C., the second new university-affiliated institution named after him in a year. And yet, by November 2022, the Biden team was preparing to “vacate office space” at the Penn Biden Center. Why? What prompted that move? And who decided that one of Biden’s personal lawyers should go through his old papers at that time? …
Why were Biden’s closest and most trusted aides — covered by attorney-client privilege — preparing to vacate office space at a center named after him? Who decided that the “Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement” was not a good place to store documents from Biden’s time as vice president, and why? …
Biden’s lawyer felt comfortable opening a manilla folder labeled “VP personal.” That sounds like a thorough review of everything in those boxes, much more than a routine moving of boxes from one storage closet to another. What was Biden’s lawyer looking for? What did he expect to find?
Perhaps the most intriguing possibility in all this was whether Biden’s lawyer was specifically looking for classified information that had been left over from Biden’s time as vice president. After all, about a month or so earlier, Biden appeared on 60 Minutes and asked, with stern disapproval, how anyone could possibly be so irresponsible as to take classified information out of a government facility. Did someone on Biden’s team belatedly realize that Biden or one of his staffers had likely done the same?
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