Greg Burton, a reporter with the Arizona Republic, revealed a prior occasionwhere Biden had left classified documents lying around, exposing them to him and others.
Burton was visiting Biden’s Vice-Presidential office in the White House to interview Biden about the financial crisis at the time in 2010.
But during the interview, Burton noticed a “Top Secret” document on a table in the office.
“The red warning on the cover caught my attention but my eyes drifted to the then-vice president’s keepsakes, a leather binder and photos of Jill, Beau, Hunter, Ashley and Champ,” recalls Burton. He reflects that the document might have contained anything from “launch codes” to “spy games and terrorism cells,” for all he knows.
Burton was one of several reporters and photographers who had been cleared to interview Biden in his office that day. Jay Carney, who became Obama’s press secretary not long afterward, was Biden’s director of communications at the time and was also in the room.
Biden discussed the Troubled Asset Relief Program and posed for pictures. After an hour and a half, his press secretary, Elizabeth Alexander, drew the interview to a close. Biden waved over one of the photographers with whom he was friendly for a few more snaps, then the group trooped out of the office. That’s when the action took place:
The red cover equals “Top Secret.”
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