evidence: President Joe Biden, from left, walks with White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and White House deputy chief of staff Bruce Reed, as they cross the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, April 26, 2024, after returning from a trip to New York. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) [...] Biden in February launched a separate task force aimed at addressing the "systemic" problem of mishandling classified information during presidential transitions, days after a Justice Department special counsel’s sharply critical report said he and his aides had done just that when he left the vice presidency in 2016. This story was first published on April 26, 2024. It was updated on April 29, 2024, to make clear that access to sensitive information is addressed in a separate memorandum of understanding with the same Sept. 1 deadline.