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   Security experts are sounding off about President Biden's   
   handling of classified materials, suggesting that the documents   
   could have been more susceptible to leaks than those found in   
   former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate last year.   
      
   Under scrutiny from Republicans, Attorney General Merrick   
   Garland appointed a special counsel Thursday to investigate the   
   classified materials, which Biden claims were "inadvertently   
   misplaced."   
      
   The Justice Department escalated it to a special counsel   
   investigation from a mere review after a second stash of   
   classified documents was found inside the garage of Biden's   
   Wilmington, Delaware, home. The first documents were found   
   inside the Washington, D.C., offices of the Penn Biden Center   
   think tank. Garland tapped Robert Hur, a former U.S. attorney,   
   to handle the investigation.   
      
   Charles Marino, the CEO of Sentinel Security and a former   
   Homeland Security Department advisor who specializes in law   
   enforcement, told Fox News Digital that Biden's handling of the   
   documents, compared to Trump's, could have resulted in greater   
   potential for "leakage."   
      
   WHO HAD ACCESS TO BIDEN CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS? REPUBLICAN DEMANDS   
   WHITE HOUSE RELEASE DELAWARE VISITOR LOGS   
      
   "The storage of classified documents was not authorized at any   
   of these locations, however there are several distinctions with   
   respect to the potential ‘leakage’ of the information contained   
   within the documents via controls that would have likely   
   prevented or limited unauthorized access to the locations,"   
   Marino said.   
      
   Noting that Trump "had the power to declassify whereas Joe Biden   
   as vice president did not," Marino suggested that Trump's   
   additional Secret Service protection granted the documents   
   slightly more protection.   
      
   "Former Presidents continue to receive Secret Service protection   
   and deploy security technologies, whereas former Vice Presidents   
   do not, beyond an initial six-month extension. This means there   
   was no US government provided security at the residence in   
   Wilmington, Delaware, or at the Biden-UPenn think tank office in   
   Washington, D.C. for close to six years," he said.   
      
   "Former Presidents are eligible to continue to receive both   
   secure communications and facilities. For example, former   
   Presidents are eligible to request continuation of receiving the   
   classified presidential daily briefings. Former Vice Presidents   
   are not."   
      
   Biden's claim that he was unaware he possessed classified   
   materials, according to Marino, also a former Secret Service   
   special agent, adds to concern over how closely the documents at   
   both locations were protected.   
      
   "Not knowing that one is in possession of classified documents,   
   as Biden has claimed, means that there were absolutely no   
   additional measures to safeguard and protect the information,"   
   he said. "Former President Trump acknowledged such possession,   
   took steps to secure them in one location (although still not in   
   accordance with storage requirements for classified info), and   
   is still granted additional security resources for deterrence   
   and detection."   
      
   DEMOCRATS SCRAMBLE TO DEFEND BIDEN'S HANDLING OF CLASSIFIED   
   MATERIALS, POINT FINGERS AT TRUMP   
      
   Special counsel to the president Richard Sauber disclosed in a   
   statement Saturday that five additional pages of documents with   
   classified markings were found at Biden's Delaware home Thursday   
   evening, making a total of six classified documents retrieved   
   from the house — in addition to the documents discovered in the   
   garage.   
      
   Sauber explained that when Biden's personal attorneys identified   
   one classified document at Biden's home on Wednesday, they   
   stopped searching for additional documents, because they lacked   
   the security clearances necessary to view those materials.   
      
   The first batch of classified documents in Biden's possession   
      
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