Butdvokat: Justice Department employees found six more secret documents in Biden’s house. The papers that Justice Department employees found at Joe Biden’s house relate to the periods when he was a senator and vice president. Previously, secret documents were found in his garage and the analytical center associated with Biden
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Employees of the US Department of Justice during searches at the home of President Joe Biden in Wilmington (Delaware) found a new batch of secret documents, his lawyer Rob Bauer told reporters. This is reported by CNBC.
The search took place on Friday, January 20, it lasted 12 hours. In total, six documents were found marked “confidential” and “related materials”. According to Bauer, one part refers to the period when Biden was a senator (he represented Delaware from 1973 to 2009), the other – vice president (from 2009 to 2017).
Also, the lawyer said, Justice Department officials took away several handwritten notes made during Biden’s tenure as vice president.
Bauer clarified that access to Biden’s private residence was provided at the suggestion of the president’s team in order to move the process as quickly as possible, the ministry asked that lawyers not announce investigative actions in advance. According to Special adviser to the US President Richard Sauber, the head of state and First Lady Jill Biden were not present during the searches, it was conducted with lawyers and representatives of the White House.
This is the third batch of secret documents that investigators have found. The first was discovered in November 2022 at the Penn Biden Center. Among the papers were American intelligence reports and briefing materials related to Ukraine, Iran and the UK. The American leader expressed surprise that they were found there. The second batch was found in a warehouse in the garage of Biden’s house in Delaware, as well as in one of the rooms.
The Presidential Archives Act requires that all presidential and vice presidential documents be transferred to the National Archives.On January 12, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Special Prosecutor Robert Hur to investigate. Biden himself said that all the papers found in his possession “were immediately transferred to the archive and the Ministry of Justice”, and he “fully cooperates and looks forward to the opportunity to quickly solve this problem”.
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Secret documents were also found at Biden’s predecessor Donald Trump, searches at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida took place last summer. According to the Washington Post, the paper contained “sensitive intelligence” about Iran and China.
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