Long after the corridors of power had moved on, recordings made in the quiet of a memoir's drafting sessions have surfaced to reopen one of the more contested chapters of Joe Biden's post-vice-presidential life. In conversations captured in 2016 and 2017, Biden can be heard acknowledging to a ghostwriter that he possessed classified documents and private notes the White House did not know existed — words his legal team spent years trying to keep sealed. The tapes do not resolve the question of intent or culpability, but they place Biden's own voice at the center of a debate that special counse