For President Joe Biden, it was an inconvenient discovery — and the
potential source of considerable future political, if not legal
heartburn. The Justice Department is investigating how and why
classified documents from Biden’s time as veep made their way from the
White House to a think tank, the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and
Global Engagement, where he used to have an office.

CBS’ Adriana Diaz, Andres Triay and Arden Farhi scooped the news last
night, and White House special counsel Richard Sauber confirmed the
November discovery and subsequent federal probe, noting in a statement
that Biden’s “personal attorneys have cooperated with the Archives and
the Department of Justice in a process to ensure that any Obama-Biden
Administration records are appropriately in the possession of the
Archives.”

Nedless to say, newly empowered Republicans see the circumstances here
as a hell of a lot more than inconvenient — seizing on superficial
similarities between this discovery and the August search and seizure of
more than 100 classified documents from President Donald Trump’s home in
Florida.