Last August, the FBI searched former President Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago, his Palm Beach resort, looking for classified documents. Last Friday, the FBI searched President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, looking for classified documents. Both searches were unprecedented, and both turned up secret material stored in unauthorized locations. While the circumstances that led […]
In this week’s The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, and Nick Gillespie consider the revelation that, like former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden also had a stash of classified documents in his private office and residence. 0:23: President Biden also had classified materials in his house 10:35: House GOP introduces […]
Was President Joe Biden more irresponsible than President Donald Trump in mishandling classified documents? Should one be prosecuted? Both? Neither? Let D.C. denizens hash out the treatment doled out to representatives of competing political factions over their ability to keep government secrets. The real divide is between the consequences faced by the powerful and those […]
In addition to the “small number” of classified documents in President Joe Biden’s former think tank office, it turns out, he had a “small number” in the garage of his house in Wilmington, Delaware, plus one more in a room adjacent to the garage. These were Obama administration records that Biden came across during his […]
Lost in the incredibly expensive fight over how many billions of dollars the federal government can waste is any number of more modest bills—some of which wouldn’t add to our nation’s debt and would help protect Americans from that very expensive government. Consider the PRESS Act—officially the Protect Reporters From Exploitative State Spying Act. The […]