U.S. President Joe Biden listens during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 13, 2023.
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Additional categories government documents was found at the President Joe BidenDelaware will go home this week, the White House confirmed Saturday.
In a statement, Richard Sauber, special adviser to the president, said that a total of six pages of classified documents were discovered at Biden’s Wilmington mansion. The White House previously said that only one page was found there.
Sauber said the first document was identified by Biden’s personal attorney on Wednesday and delivered, while five additional documents were discovered later that week.
“DOJ officials to me immediately took possession of them,” he said in the statement.
Sauber said the president’s lawyers acted “immediately and voluntarily” to provide the documents to the Justice Department.
The disclosure of the latest finding comes days after Sauber confirmed media reports that the president’s lawyers had found original lot of classified documents from the Biden administration on November 2 in an office Biden used as a private citizen at a Washington think tank.
It was almost three months after FBI agent assault Florida residence of the former president Donald Trump and seized more than 100 classified government documents and hundreds of other files that federal prosecutors believe belonged to the United States government.
Trump is at the heart of the DOJ’s criminal investigation for removing records from the White House in January 2021.
Sauber revealed on Thursday that a The second batch of documents has been found at Biden’s home in Delaware. He released a statement detailing how and where the second batch of documents were found, and said a “small number” of documents marked classified had been found in the garage.
According to a statement Saturday from Biden’s attorney Bob Bauer, a second batch of documents were discovered in the garage of Biden’s Delaware mansion. The president’s attorneys conducted another search of the home for other classified documents beginning January 11, when they found additional files in a room next to the garage. .
Bauer said that Biden’s personal attorneys are working to strike a balance between public transparency and the limits necessary to “protect the integrity of the investigation.”
Bauer said the attorneys don’t have security clearances, which means they don’t know the exact number of documents or their contents. He said that when a lawyer discovered a classified document, they stopped, informed the government and did not review it.
“Following this process means that any disclosure regarding documents cannot be concluded until the government conducts an investigation, including possession of any documents and a review of all documents. surrounding data for further consideration and context,” Bauer said.
By law, government records must be entered into the National Archives when the president or officials in their administration leave office. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday appointed former federal prosecutor Robert Hur as special counsel to investigate the discovery. these secret files.
Hur was authorized “to investigate whether any individual or entity has violated the law in relation to this matter,” Garland said in a public statement he issued upon his appointment at the Justice Department. France.
Shortly after the second discovery, Biden discussed the documents with reporters.
“Like I said earlier this week, and by the way, my Corvette is in a locked garage, so it’s not like they’re sitting on the street,” Biden said, referring to the documents.
“People know that I take classified documents and classified documents very seriously,” Biden said. “I also said that we are cooperating, fully cooperating with the review of the Department of Justice.”
