President Joe Biden’s lawyer said in a statement that the US Justice Department found six more items, including documents with classification markings, during a recent search.
Classified documents and ‘surrounding materials’ discovered at Biden’s home dated from his time in the United States Senate, where he represented Delaware from 1973 to 2009, and other documents from his time as Vice President in the Obama Administration, from 2009 to 2017.
US Justice Department finds six more classified document with classified markings at President Joe Biden’s Home
According to Biden’s lawyer Bauer , the department of justice, conducted a search that lasted 12 hours, also took some notes that Biden had written as Vice President.
Further Bauer stated, “to his home to allow DOJ to conduct a search of the entire premises for potential vice-presidential records and potential classified material,”
According to the attorney, neither Biden nor his wife was present during the search. Biden is spending the weekend in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
As per Bauer, Justice Department investigators planned the search with Biden’s lawyers ahead of time, and the president’s personal and White House lawyers were present at the time.
As per Bauer, Justice Department investigators coordinated the search with Biden’s lawyers ahead of time, and the president’s personal and White House lawyers were present at the time.
Other classified government records were discovered this month at Biden’s Wilmington home, and in November at a private office he maintained at a Washington, D.C. think tank after leaving the Obama administration as vice president in 2017.
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Bauer did not specify where the documents were discovered in the Wilmington home in his statement on Saturday. The previously classified documents were discovered in the garage and a nearby storage space.
The search demonstrates that federal investigators are moving quickly with their investigation into classified documents discovered in Biden’s possession. US Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to investigate the matter earlier this month.
Special Counsel Robert Hur investigating how President and his team are handling Obama era classified documents
Special counsel Robert Hur, who was appointed during the investigation, is looking into how the president and his team handled Obama-era classified documents discovered in Biden’s private possession.
According to the White House, Biden’s lawyers discovered all of the documents discovered prior to the DOJ’s search on Friday. According to publicly available information, the latest search was the first time federal law enforcement authorities searched for government documents at Biden’s private addresses.
Republicans have compared the investigation to the ongoing investigation into how former President Donald Trump handled classified documents after leaving office. The White House has stated that Biden’s team has assisted authorities in their investigation and has turned over those documents.
Trump resisted until an FBI raid on his Florida resort in August.
The search raises the legal and political stakes for the president, who has previously stated that the discovery of classified material at his home and former office would be deemed insignificant.
Search escalates legal and political stakes for President Biden
Biden said on Thursday that he has “no regrets” about not publicly disclosing the discovery of classified documents at his former office before the midterm elections, and that he believes the matter will be resolved.
“There is no there, there,” Biden told reporters on Thursday during a trip to California.
Trump has complained that since the discovery of Biden’s documents, Justice Department investigators have been treating his successor unfairly.
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