President Biden Responds to Questions About Handling of Classified Documents

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President Biden Responds to Questions About Handling of Classified Documents
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President Joe Biden addresses questions about his handling of classified documents after a special counsel's investigation concluded that criminal charges were not warranted.

There is no legal definition for information that is 'high classified.' Instead, there are three classification levels based on the damage to national security if information got out. The special counsel said President Joe Biden had 18 documents with 'top secret' markings on them. That’s the highest of the three levels. It’s unclear whether the special counsel found documents with color-coded cover sheets to signal they contained classified documents , which Biden alluded to in his remarks.

But intelligence experts told PolitiFact that documents don’t need to have cover sheets to be marked classified. President Joe Biden fielded questions about his handling of classified documents after a special counsel’s investigation concluded that criminal charges were not warranted although classified documents were found in his Wilmington, Delaware, home. 'When you look back at this incident is there anything you would do differently now?' a reporter asked Biden at a Feb. 8 'It wasn’t out like in Mar-a-Lago, in a public place. And none of it was high classified,' Biden sai

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