There’s a long and winding trail for the classified documents from Joe Biden’s Vice Presidential office, including a temporary stopover at a facility in Washington, D.C., as questions arise over how this sensitive information wound up at the think tank.
Classified documents from Biden’s Vice President traveled through multiple stops
The growing firestorm around Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents continues to stir up more questions than answers, as up to 30 files have now been found in his possession, and they seem to have taken a long and winding trail.
The Daily Mail published an exclusive report this week that some classified files that wound up at the think tank – the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington, D.C. – made a temporary stopover on their way at a facility in the nation’s capital, according to a source who spoke to the Mail.
According to the report, the classified documents from Joe Biden’s vice-presidential office temporarily spent roughly 6 months at a government transition office near the White House after Joe left the vice presidency.
“Everything was just moved en masse to temporary space, then moved to Penn Biden,” a source told DailyMail.
This temporary storage space is located in Washington, D.C.’s Chinatown neighborhood and is overseen by the Penn Biden Center. The documents were held there while the new office was being readied ahead of its formal opening, which Biden attended in 2018.
A closer look at the think tank involved in the classified documents scandal
The Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement was unveiled by Joe Biden in 2018. The relatively obscure Ivy League think tank is nestled in a building near the Capitol on Constitution Avenue, where it sits amid law firms, lobbying firms, and other trade groups, the Washington Examiner reports.
Biden called his post-vice presidency work at the think tank a means of “strengthening American global leadership for the future.” It reportedly served as his main office while he was in DC in the time between his vice presidency and presidency.
Now, questions are forming about not only how classified documents ended up there but who had access to the office where the files were found. The think tank’s funding is also being questioned. The University of Pennsylvania was also affiliated with the think tank from 2017 to 2019.
Biden was given a largely ceremonial role as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, did not teach classes, and only made a handful of appearances, which managed to earn him over $900,000, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer
Following Biden’s appointment as an honorary professor, donations from foreign entities exploded from $31 million in 2016 to over $100 million in 2019, according to a report by the Washington Free Beacon. Some of the foreign donations to the institution were marked as anonymous.
