Attorneys for President Joe Biden have discovered more classified documents than previously known at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, the White House acknowledged Saturday.
White House Counsel Richard Sauber stated in a statement that a total of Six pages of confidential documents while searching in Biden Private Library. The White House had previously said only one page was found there.
This last revelation adds up to The discovery of documents last December in Biden’s garage and in November of others in his former offices at the Ben Biden Center in Washington.corresponding to his time as Vice President.
An investigation into the apparent mishandling of classified official documents and records of President Barack Obama’s administration is being investigated by a former federal prosecutor, Robert Hoare, who was appointed Thursday as a special prosecutor by Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Sauber said in a statement Saturday that Biden’s personal attorneys, who were not authorized to access classified materials, halted their search after the front page was found Wednesday night. Sauber found the remaining substance Thursday while facilitating its recovery by the Department of Justice.
“As I was passing it on to the Justice Department officials accompanying me, five additional pages were discovered with tags of classified materials among the materials, for a total of six pages,” Sauber said. “The Justice Department officials who were with me immediately seized it.”
Sauber previously stated that the White House “is confident that a thorough review will show that these documents were moved inadvertently, and that the President and his attorneys acted swiftly upon discovery of this error.”
Sauber’s statement did not explain exactly why the White House waited two days to provide an accurate count of the number of classified documents. The White House is already facing scrutiny for waiting more than two months to acknowledge the discovery of the initial batch of documents in Biden’s office.
On Thursday, when asked if Biden could guarantee no more classified documents would turn up in a new search, White House press secretary Karen Jean-Pierre told reporters: “You have to assume they’re complete, yes.”
Sauber confirmed on Saturday that the White House will cooperate with Hore’s investigation.
Bob Bauer, the president’s personal attorney, said his legal team has “tried to balance the importance of public transparency when appropriate with established standards and the limitations needed to protect the integrity of the investigation.”
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