Classified documents were discovered at an office President Joe Biden used in the interim between when he was vice president and when he was elected president.
机密文件是在乔·拜登总统担任副总统到当选总统期间使用的一间办公室里发现的。
This discovery echoes the findings of more than a hundred classified documents seized at Mar-a-Lago, but there are key differences between those two cases.
这一发现让人联想到在海湖庄园查获的100多份机密文件,但这两起案件之间存在关键差异。
In the Biden case, there were what the White House described as a small number of classified documents in a locked closet at the Penn Biden Center.
在拜登一案中,白宫表示,宾夕法尼亚州拜登中心一个上了锁的壁橱里存放了的少量机密文件。
They were immediately turned over the next day to the National Archives.
第二天,它们立即被移交给了国家档案馆。
In Trump's case, though, the National Archives had sought the return of more than 11,000 documents for as long as he had left the administration in January of 2021.
然而,在特朗普一案中,自特朗普2021年1月离任以来,国家档案馆一直在要求其归还1.1多万份文件。
The FBI searched Mar-a-Lago in August of 2022 and found 11,000 documents and included among them, more than a hundred classified documents, which raised questions about what secrets, might have been revealed to casual visitors at Mar-a-Lago.
联邦调查局于2022年8月搜查了海湖庄园,发现了1.1万份文件,其中包括100多份机密文件,这些文件引发了人们的质疑,认为海湖庄园可能对某对访客泄露了机密。
Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel, Jack Smith, to investigate those documents at Mar-a-Lago.
司法部长梅里克·加兰任命了特别律师杰克·史密斯对海湖庄园的文件进行调查。
So there is a special counsel investigating.
所以特别律师现在正在调查中。
In the Biden case, the Justice Department has asked the US attorney in Chicago, John Lausch, to investigate the documents.
在拜登一案中,司法部已要求芝加哥的联邦检察官约翰·劳施调查这些文件。
Lausch is a holdover from the Trump administration.
劳施在特朗普政府任命后,目前在拜登政府继续担任联邦检察官。
That hasn't been enough for Trump supporters.
对于特朗普的支持者来说,这还不够。
One of his spokesman said that a special council should be appointed for the Biden documents as well.
特朗普的一位发言人表示,也应该就拜登私存文件成立一个特别委员会进行调查。
The Chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, James Comer, a Republican of Kentucky, has said that he will investigate how these documents were found and whether the two officials, Biden and Trump have been treated differently by the Justice Department as it investigates both cases.
众议院监督和问责委员会主席、肯塔基州共和党人詹姆斯·科默表示,他将调查这些文件是如何发现的,以及司法部在调查这两起案件时,是否对拜登和特朗普进行了区别对待。