U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland is joined by U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois John Lausch to announce the appointment of a special counsel. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Thursday he was appointing Robert Hur to serve as a special counsel to review classified material found in President Joe Biden's Delaware residence and a Washington office he used. Garland said Hur's appointment "authorizes him to investigate whether any person or entity violated the law in connection with this matter."
The move comes after the White House acknowledged publicly that classified Obama administration documents were found in one of Biden's Delaware homes, specifically in his garage. The White House had also confirmed that documents had been found in a Washington office.
In addition, one of the classified documents found at Biden's D.C. office was marked with the highest classification in the U.S. government, Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information or TS/SCI, according to a senior U.S official and another person familiar with the matter.
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