- When President Joe Biden was a senator during President Jimmy Carter’s term, he reportedly used an accusation about the mishandling of classified documents to sink a nominee for director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Classified documents from Biden’s tenure as vice president were found in November, December and this month at his former office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C., and at his home in Wilmington, Del.
- While Biden was a member of Senate Intelligence Committee he effectively helped Republicans end the nomination of Ted Sorensen for CIA director, The Intercept reported.
- Biden, who at first supported the nomination, dug up an affidavit in which Sorensen noted that he, like many other officials in Washington, would take home classified documents.
- Biden went after Sorensen during his confirmation hearing, saying, “Quite honestly, I’m not sure whether or not Mr. Sorensen could be indicted or convicted under the espionage statutes,” questioning “whether Mr. Sorensen intentionally took advantage of the ambiguities in the law or carelessly ignored the law.”
