The Department of Justice US examined this Friday the residence in Wilmington (Delaware) of the president, Joe Bidenand found new classified documents, the president’s personal lawyer announced this Saturday, Bob Farmer.
The search began at 9:45 a.m. and ended at 10:30 p.m. 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 at the Delaware home in searches by lawyers for Biden.
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Bauer said in his statement that, in an effort to expedite the process “as much as possible,” they agreed to give access to the house for the Justice Department to examine for material that might be classified.
Justice requested that the search that took place yesterday not be disclosed in advance.
Members of the legal team of Biden and of the White House.
The Justice Department had “full” access to the location, including to your handwritten notes, files, papers, folders, lists, or schedules, and took possession of what it deemed to be in the context of its investigation, including those six documents marked as classified.
They also took handwritten notes of their years as vice president to carry out an additional review.
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Bide’s special advisern, Richard Sauber, added in another statement that the president had told his lawyers to show full cooperation with the Department of Justice and recalled that it has been so since the initial discovery of classified documents in the think tank Penn Centerfounded by the president.
Sauber stressed that Biden and his team are making sure the Justice Department has what it needs to do a “thorough” review.
Both the White House like own Biden They have insisted from the beginning on their total willingness to collaborate in these investigations and 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 following a raid by the FBI.
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-Lagowhere the intervention of 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, specifying that neither Biden nor the first lady, Jill, were present at yesterday’s registration.
(With information from EFE)
