Rabia Iclal Turan
12 January 2023•Update: 13 January 2023
WASHINGTON
More classified documents were found at US President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware -- most in a storage space in the garage, the White House said Thursday.
Special Counsel to the President Richard Sauber said Biden’s lawyers searched his Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, residences after classified documents were found at the Penn Biden Center in November.
“During the review, the lawyers discovered among personal and political papers a small number of additional Obama-Biden Administration records with classified markings,” Sauber wrote in a statement. “All but one of these documents were found in storage space in the President’s Wilmington residence garage. One document consisting of one page was discovered among stored materials in an adjacent room. No documents were found in the Rehoboth Beach residence.”
“As was done in the case of the Penn-Biden Center, the Department of Justice was immediately notified, and the lawyers arranged for the Department of Justice to take possession of these documents,” he said.
The confirmation came after multiple media outlets reported Wednesday that the president's aides found at least one additional batch of classified materials in a different location from Biden’s former Washington, D.C. office where the original documents were discovered.
Biden's attorneys found the first batch of about 10 documents at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington, D.C. in a locked closet as they were preparing to vacate the office space in Washington and handed them to the National Archives and Records Administration.
They included documents containing US intelligence memos and briefing materials dated between 2013 and 2016 related to Ukraine, Iran and the UK, a source told CNN.
Biden said he was surprised to learn classified documents from his time as vice president were found at the office of his think tank, adding that his team “immediately” handed them to the National Archives.
US Attorney General Merrick Garland assigned the US attorney's office in Chicago to review the initial documents while the FBI is also involved in the inquiry.
