UPDATE: WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed a special counsel to investigate the presence of documents with classified markings found at President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, and at an office in Washington.
Earlier Thursday, Biden acknowledged that a document with classified markings from his time as vice president was found in his “personal library” at his home in Delaware, along with other classified documents found in his garage. Biden told reporters at the White House that he was “cooperating fully and completely” with a Justice Department investigation. Biden did not say when the latest documents were found, only that his lawyers’ review of potential storage locations was completed Wednesday night.
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House says documents with classified markings from President Joe Biden’s time as vice president were found at his home in Wilmington, Delaware. The disclosure comes days after word that sensitive documents were also found at the office of Biden’s former Washington institute.
Richard Sauber, a special counsel to the president, says that after the initial documents were found by Biden’s personal lawyers, they examined other locations where records might have been shipped after Biden left the vice presidency in 2017. Sauber said the Department of Justice was “immediately notified” after the documents were found in Wilmington and that department lawyers have taken custody of the records.
