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Trump is facing various criminal charges – here's what we can learn from legal cases against Nixon and Clinton

A Georgia special grand jury has finished its work investigating whether former president Donald Trump and his allies committed crimes when trying to overturn the 2020 election results.

The Conversation · Jan 12, 2023

US Congress investigates presidents, the military, baseball and whatever it wants – a brief modern history of oversight

After regaining a slim majority in the House of Representatives in the November 2022 midterm elections, Republicans unveiled their plans for a series of investigations into the Biden administration.

The Conversation · Jan 12, 2023

Joe Biden’s aides ‘find second batch of classified documents in different location’

The location and classification level of the second batch of documents has not been disclosed

Evening Standard · Jan 12, 2023

Does the classified papers stash make Biden as bad as Trump? Here is the key difference

News analysis: How President Biden’s attorneys reacted to discovering documents with classification markings in a locked office once used by the president will go a long way toward keeping the Department of Justice off his back

The Independent UK · Jan 11, 2023

Biden 'surprised' to learn classified government records found at old office

President Joe Biden said Tuesday he was surprised when informed that government records were found by his attorneys at his former office space in Washington. He was asked about the issue after the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee requested that the US intelligence conduct a “damage assessment” of…

France 24 · Jan 11, 2023

Biden "surprised" government records taken to his old office

Biden added he didn't know "what's in the documents."

Axios · Jan 11, 2023

Does the classified papers stash make Joe Biden as bad as Trump? Here is the key difference

News analysis: How President Biden’s attorneys reacted to discovering documents with classification markings in a locked office once used by the president will go a long way toward keeping the Department of Justice off his back

The Independent UK · Jan 10, 2023

DOJ probes Biden document handling – what is classified information, anyway?

The U.S. Department of Justice is reviewing the discovery of classified documents found in an office no longer used by President Joe Biden at a think tank in Washington, D.C.

The Conversation · Jan 10, 2023

GOP requests intelligence 'damage assessment' of Biden docs

The top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee has requested that the U_S_ intelligence community conduct a “damage assessment” of potentially classified documents found in the Washington office space of President Joe Biden’s former institute, Rep_ Mike Turner sent the request Tuesday to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, saying…

The Independent UK · Jan 10, 2023

Speaker McCarthy: That's no joke, folks

As usual, the mockery was a way to avoid the real emotions we should feel: How the hell did America get here?

Salon · Jan 10, 2023