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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrew Feinberg

Republicans call for US attorney general to name special counsel in tit-for-tat over Biden classified documents

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Republican senators are demanding that Attorney General Merrick Garland name a special prosecutor to investigate how Obama-era documents bearing classification markings ended up in two locations linked to President Joe Biden.

On Wednesday, multiple news outlets reported that Mr Biden’s legal team had discovered at least one document bearing classification markings at a location the president’s attorneys were searching to follow up on the 2 November discovery of roughly a dozen similar documents at a Washington DC think tank office used by the president during his time out of government service.

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