Washington: The White House announced on Saturday that five more pages of classified information had been discovered at Joe Biden's family's Delaware home. This is a new development in a politically sensitive case for the president.
After visiting the house on Thursday, White House attorney Richard Sauber discovered these pages, which date from when Biden served as Barack Obama's vice president, he said in a statement. According to Sauber, he travelled there to supervise the transfer of a first batch of documents discovered on Wednesday to the Justice Department.
A document marked classified was discovered by presidential lawyers who were searching the Delaware house's garage. These lawyers informed the Justice Department that they couldn't read it because they lacked the required security clearance, according to Sauber.
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US presidents and vice presidents are required by a 1978 law to turn over their official correspondence, including emails and letters, to the National Archives. Sauber claimed to have the required security clearance, so he went to the Delaware home and discovered the additional five pages while transferring the earlier paperwork to Justice Department officials.
Other documents had already been discovered in Biden's former workspace at a Washington-based think tank. US Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed an impartial prosecutor to look into Biden's handling of classified documents as outrage over the revelations in Washington grew. For Biden, the matter is an unwelcome diversion as he gets ready to declare whether he will run for office again.
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The revelations have prompted comparisons to the case of former president Donald Trump's possession of hundreds of classified documents at his Florida home and his alleged obstruction of government efforts to get them back, which is also being looked into by a special counsel.
I take the existence of classified documents and material seriously. According to Biden, we are fully and completely cooperating with the Justice Department's investigation.
My attorneys reviewed additional locations where records from my tenure as vice president were kept as part of that process, and they completed the review last night.
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The first cache of Biden documents was found in November, a week before the midterm elections last year, but the White House only acknowledged it on Monday, leading Republicans to claim that it was kept a secret for political purposes.