Biden, Trump and Pence cases prompt calls to tighten government procedures as Republican congressman says ‘the process is broken’
“Quantitatively and qualitatively there are big differences between Trump’s situation on the one hand, and Biden and Pence on the other,” said Carl Tobias, Williams professor of law at the University of Richmond.
“Also the behaviour, if you look at Pence and Biden, it may be negligent, or just not careful. There isn’t any notion of intent to do something, which is apparently the case with Trump. Those differences are pretty important.”when asked by ABC News in November if he had taken classified material from the White House.
“Hundreds of thousands of classified documents are generated every year, it’s difficult to keep track of all that and we may have an over-classification problem. Maybe Congress would pass some legislation to try to address that,” he said. they handed over all classified documents to the National Archives before leaving the White House, as did the office of the late George HW Bush.
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