Aides to President Joe Biden have located documents with classified marks in two locations inside his home in Wilmington, Delaware, the White House Attorney’s Office said in a statement Thursday.
The documents were located in a storage area in Biden’s garage and in an adjacent room, the statement said. Biden often spends his weekends at the house, located in a wealthy, wooded lakeside enclave.
Speaking on Thursday, Biden said the documents were in a “locked garage” and that he was cooperating fully with the Justice Department.
“It’s not like they’re sitting on the street,” he insisted when a reporter asked why he was keeping classified material next to a sports car.
The president said he would “get a chance to talk about all this, God willing, soon.”
The documents were located after a search of the president’s homes in Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. No confidential documents were located on Rehoboth’s property, the statement said. The documents were found “among personal and political papers”.
Biden’s lawyers completed the review of Delaware homes on Wednesday night (11).
“As was done in the Penn-Biden Center case, the Department of Justice was immediately notified and attorneys arranged for the Department of Justice to take possession of these documents,” the statement reads.
A person familiar with the situation said after the release of the release that, in the case of the classified documents initially discovered at the Penn-Biden Center, Biden’s lawyers first notified the National Archives – not the Department of Justice – which, in turn, notified the Department of Justice.
Biden’s attorneys followed “proper protocol” by first notifying Archives with the first batch of classified documents, the person said, but as the Justice Department subsequently became involved and the president’s attorneys contacted them, on appeal, the lawyers informed the Department of Justice.
But key questions remain unanswered about the stash of classified material, including who brought them into Biden’s private homes and what specifically was contained in them.
*CNN’s MJ Lee, Maegan Vazquez, Phil Mattingly, and Evan Perez contributed to this piece
Source: CNN Brasil
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