Article 683MQ Four Oath Keepers found guilty of seditious conspiracy in latest January 6 convictions – as it happened

Four Oath Keepers found guilty of seditious conspiracy in latest January 6 convictions – as it happened

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Chris Stein
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Verdict comes after group's founder and co-defendant were also convicted of seditious conspiracy in November

When Joe Biden's aides first discovered classified documents at his former office in Washington DC, they thought that was the only location such material would be found.

But it wasn't - more secrets were found at his home in Wilmington, Delaware. The mistaken belief that such documents would only be found in one place has led to the drip of discoveries over the past weeks, the New York Times reports, and kept the issue in the news, particularly after the justice department took the significant step of appointing a special counsel to handle the matter.

Former officials familiar with the packing up of Mr. Biden's office in the White House and the vice president's Naval Observatory home at the end of the Obama administration had told Mr. Biden's lawyers that there were two primary sets of materials, the people said.

One set was believed to be material that might be useful to Mr. Biden for his post-vice-presidential career in public life or teaching, like his speeches and unclassified policy memos about topics he was interested in. Those materials were initially shipped to two transition offices and then on to his office at the Penn Biden Center when it opened in 2018. (The National Archives and Records Administration would keep original copies of the official records.)

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