Breaking news: The Joe Biden top-secret classified document scandal deepens. We learned today that there is not one, nor two, but now three batches of national security classified documents. We also learned that Attorney General Garland has appointed a special counsel, Robert Hur, to look into this whole matter.  

Right at the top, I just want to say that there’s a lot of ambiguity regarding what President Biden legally can and cannot do. What kind of protected so-called SCIF areas did he have access to, and why are these documents suddenly popping up now in downtown Washington, D.C., and in Mr. Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware, home? Why now?  

Remember, presidents have the authority to classify and declassify security documents. Vice presidents do not. Also, I’d like to know the role of this so-called Penn Biden think tank funded by China.  

I also don’t understand the role of the National Archives — which hasn’t said a peep about Mr. Biden, but tried to cremate President Trump during the horrible break-in of Mar-a-Lago. Double standards are proliferating everywhere.  

Suddenly, Mr. Biden, who as a former vice president had no authority to declassify documents, is learning that in politics and elsewhere, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Or, recirculating another cliché, what goes around comes around. Oh, by the way, has anyone seen or heard from the FBI?  

Well, wait a minute, if a bunch of low-level associate White House lawyers are suddenly running into classified documents left and right between Washington and Delaware, and supposedly reporting them to somebody, why hasn’t the FBI come in to thoroughly go through Mr. Biden’s home and this China-sponsored University of Pennsylvania think tank?  

I find all this very odd, don’t you?  

Senator Kennedy called it “Biden hypocrisy” earlier today on Fox News Channel. I think he’s got a very good point.  

By the way, national security lawyers tell me that retired vice presidents can indeed read classified information, but they have to do it in a SCIF. Not in the shotgun seat of their Chevy Corvettes.  

I remember a former Clinton national security adviser, Sandy Berger, sneaking out of the National Archives a while back with all kinds of papers stuffed into his socks and the under-trousers of his ample girth. Of course, liberals are saying that this is completely different from the Trump Mar-a-Lago business and those documents.  

Well, yeah: It is completely different. Former presidents have the power to declassify anything they want. Former vice presidents do not.  

So, this whole sordid mess will play out in the period ahead, but this evening we’re just trying to lay out some of the high points and begin the search for truth. 

From Mr. Kudlow’s broadcast on Fox Business News.