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was forced to defend against charges of hypocrisy on Thursday as she was grilled in her press briefing on why the White House waited nearly a month to reveal there were additional classified documents in the president's private possession.
The White House press secretary was specifically interrogated - for the majority of her time at the podium - about Biden's promise to have a transparent administration in the wake of new details provided by the Justice Department in its probe of the president's classified cache.
Attorney General Merrick Garland revealed on Thursday that .
The White House had not revealed that information until Thursday - a few hours before Garland announced he was appointing a special counsel to investigate the matter.
It had plenty of opportunities - including when White House counsel Richard Sauber put out a statement on Monday about classified documents Dating Online back to Biden's time as vice president being discovered at the office of his D.C.
think tank.
Karine Jean-Pierre was grilled in her press briefing on why the White House waited nearly a month to reveal there were additional classified documents in Joe Biden's personal possession
Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to investigate classified documents in Biden's possession
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Additionally, Biden, Jean-Pierre and other officials had been asked in the proceeding days about the matter, including if there were other classified documents in the president's personal possession.
But neither the president, Jean-Pierre nor other officials disclosed the Wilmington documents.
Jean-Pierre said it was because Biden's personal lawyers were in the process of conducting a review of other locations where classified documents might be stored and that review was not completed until Wednesday night.
'There was a process happening that was currently ongoing,' she said.
'This was the right thing to do,' she noted.
She also argued the administration had been transparent because it disclosed the matter to the National Archives and the Justice Department immediately after the documents were discovered.
'We have been transparent here.
That is why the minute that his lawyers found those documents, they reported it. They reached out to the Archives and the Department of Justice, and they did that voluntarily, and they were not compelled to do it. They did it voluntarily,' she emphasized.
There were more classified documents in Joe Biden's Wilmington home
Garland announced Thursday afternoon he was naming Robert K.
Hur, a former federal prosecutor appointed to that position by Donald Trump, as special counsel in the case.
And, in his short statement, Garland revealed a detailed timeline of when the classified documents were originally discovered and how the initial Justice Department investigation began.
In total, there have been three discoveries of classified materials - at the Penn-Biden Center, a think tank in Washington, D.C.; in Biden's garage at his Wilmington, Del., home; and an additional discovery at Biden's Wilmington home.
Garland said the National Archives informed the DoJ of the first discovery of documents on Nov.
4th and the FBI began an investigation five days later.
The White House press secretary was specifically interrogated - for the majority of her time at the podium - about Biden's promise to have a transparent administration in the wake of new details provided by the Justice Department in its probe of the president's classified cache.
Attorney General Merrick Garland revealed on Thursday that .
The White House had not revealed that information until Thursday - a few hours before Garland announced he was appointing a special counsel to investigate the matter.
It had plenty of opportunities - including when White House counsel Richard Sauber put out a statement on Monday about classified documents Dating Online back to Biden's time as vice president being discovered at the office of his D.C.
think tank.
Karine Jean-Pierre was grilled in her press briefing on why the White House waited nearly a month to reveal there were additional classified documents in Joe Biden's personal possession
Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to investigate classified documents in Biden's possession
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Additionally, Biden, Jean-Pierre and other officials had been asked in the proceeding days about the matter, including if there were other classified documents in the president's personal possession.
But neither the president, Jean-Pierre nor other officials disclosed the Wilmington documents.
Jean-Pierre said it was because Biden's personal lawyers were in the process of conducting a review of other locations where classified documents might be stored and that review was not completed until Wednesday night.
'There was a process happening that was currently ongoing,' she said.
'This was the right thing to do,' she noted.
She also argued the administration had been transparent because it disclosed the matter to the National Archives and the Justice Department immediately after the documents were discovered.
'We have been transparent here.
That is why the minute that his lawyers found those documents, they reported it. They reached out to the Archives and the Department of Justice, and they did that voluntarily, and they were not compelled to do it. They did it voluntarily,' she emphasized.
There were more classified documents in Joe Biden's Wilmington home
Garland announced Thursday afternoon he was naming Robert K.
Hur, a former federal prosecutor appointed to that position by Donald Trump, as special counsel in the case.
And, in his short statement, Garland revealed a detailed timeline of when the classified documents were originally discovered and how the initial Justice Department investigation began.
In total, there have been three discoveries of classified materials - at the Penn-Biden Center, a think tank in Washington, D.C.; in Biden's garage at his Wilmington, Del., home; and an additional discovery at Biden's Wilmington home.
Garland said the National Archives informed the DoJ of the first discovery of documents on Nov.
4th and the FBI began an investigation five days later.
