The US Department of Justice examined this Friday the residence in Wilmington (Delaware) of the president, Joe Bidenand found new classified documentsannounced this Saturday the personal lawyer of the president, Bob Bauer.
The search began at 09:45 in the morning and ended at 22:30 at night and located six documents marked as classified, some of which date back to the time when Biden was a senator (1973-2009) and others to when he served as vice president of Barack Obama (2009-2017).
On Saturday of last week the White House confirmed that a third batch of documents had been found in the Delaware home in searches conducted by Biden’s lawyers.
Bauer indicated in his statement that, with the intention of speeding up the process “as much as possible,” agreed to give access to the house for the Department of Justice to examine it looking for material that might be classified.
Justice requested that the search that took place yesterday not be disclosed in advance.
In the same members of Biden’s legal team were present and the White House.
The Justice Department had “full” access to the site, including to your handwritten notes, files, papers, folders, lists or schedules, and took possession of what he considered to be in the framework of his investigation, including those six documents marked as classified.
They also took handwritten notes from his years as vice president for further review.
Biden’s special counsel, Richard Sauber, added in a separate statement that the president had signaled to his lawyers to show full cooperation with the Department of Justice and recalled that this has been the case since the initial discovery of classified documents in the Penn Center think tank, founded by the president.
Sauber stressed that Biden and his team are making sure that the Department of Justice has what you need to do a “comprehensive” review.
Both the White House and Biden himself have insisted from the beginning on their total willingness to collaborate in these investigations and They have tried to distance themselves from the case of the former president Donald Trump (2017-2021).
The Republican is also being investigated by the Justice Department for accumulating classified documents at his private residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, discovered after an FBI raid.
Biden’s case was uncovered this January and his various classified documents were found by his own lawyers and turned over to the authorities, unlike what happened in Mar-a-Lago, where intervention by the Department of Justice was necessary to recover the papers.
“The president has been committed from the beginning to address this responsibly because he takes it very seriously,” Sauber stressed in his note, where He specified that neither Biden nor the first lady, Jill, were present at yesterday’s search.