Biden’s lawyers find 5 more pages of classified material at his Delaware home
WASHINGTON – Aides to President Joe Biden said they found five additional pages of classified information at his Delaware home this week, the White House said on Saturday.
According to The New York Times, at least six pages have been uncovered at the president’s residence in Wilmington.
The newspaper, citing an anonymous source, said that the additional pages were discovered hours after the White House released a statement that stated that only one had been found in a storage area adjacent to Biden’s garage.
White House lawyer Richard Sauber said in a statement that the additional pages were found during a search of Biden’s private library, The Washington Post reported.
“Because I have a security clearance, I went to Wilmington Thursday evening to facilitate providing the document the President’s personal counsel found on Wednesday to the Justice Department,” Sauber said in his statement. “While I was transferring it to the DOJ officials who accompanied me, five additional pages with classification markings were discovered among the material with it, for a total of six pages. The DOJ officials with me immediately took possession of them.”
Sauber added in his statement that Biden’s personal lawyers, who did not have security clearances, stopped their search after finding the first page on Wednesday, The Associated Press reported.
Biden’s lead personal lawyer, Robert Bauer, said in a statement on Saturday that the president’s legal team had tried to balance being transparent with “the established norms and limitations necessary to protect the investigation’s integrity.”
White House: More classified records found at Biden’s Delaware home
According to the AP, the latest disclosure by the White House is in addition to the discovery of documents in December in Biden’s garage, and in November at his former offices at the Penn Biden Center in Washington when he was vice president.
On Thursday, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed former Maryland U.S. Attorney Robert Hur as special counsel to take over the investigation of the classified documents.
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Garland’s decision to appoint Hur in the Biden case followed an initial investigation led by John Lausch, the U.S. attorney in Chicago, the Post reported.
Biden stopped using his office at the Penn Biden Center when he announced his candidacy for president, according to the newspaper. The classified materials were found among Biden’s personal documents, including files related to the planning of the funeral of the president’s eldest son, Beau Biden, who died in 2015, the Post reported.
