President Joe Biden’s expectations for a quick resolution of a probe into his mishandling of classified documents have been dashed, as a steady drip of new developments has tied it into political knots.
Although it appears to be a relatively straightforward investigation, the case has become politically entangled with separate questions about the mishandling of classified material by former President Donald Trump and now former Vice President Mike Pence.
“There is a difference between legally entangled and politically entangled,” said Kel McClanahan, executive director of the nonprofit public interest law firm National Security Counselors. “If you take the politics out of it, the two are completely separate cases.”
