Robert Hur, the special counsel who investigated President Joe Biden‘s handling of classified documents, declared during a congressional hearing Tuesday that he did not “exonerate” the president despite declining to bring charges against him.
Hur’s comment came in response to questions from Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, who claimed that Hur’s special counsel report, released last month after a yearlong investigation, was indeed an “exoneration” of the president.
Hur wrote in the report that he found evidence Biden willfully retained classified documents after he left the vice presidency and that Biden “risked serious damage to America’s national security.” While unauthorized retention of classified material is against federal law, Hur also said he did not bring charges because he did not have evidence that met a reasonable doubt threshold.
Jayapal observed that in
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