Joe Biden’s personal lawyer assured this Wednesday that no confidential documents were found during searches of the residence of the US president in Rehoboth (Delaware).
The lawyer, Bob Bauer, confirmed that the search operation was carried out in “full cooperation” with the Federal Police (FBI), and that “no classified document was found” in the residence that the president has by the sea.
Even so, the investigators took with them documents related to his activity as vice president of Barack Obama.
The raids conducted today were the third in the span of three months in which agents searched Biden’s homes for confidential documents he may have misplaced.
As anticipated in January, the President’s team found, in November, sensitive and confidential documents from the time when Joe Biden was vice president of Barack Obama (2009-2017) and when he was a senator (1973-2009).
Since then, the US government has repeatedly announced the discovery of more documents, and on January 12, Attorney General Merrick Garland moved forward with the appointment of conservative Robert Hur as special counsel to review classified documents and found in private locations. .
A few days ago, the discovery of documents in the house of former Vice President Mike Pence was also announced, a situation that, added to the papers found in Donald Trump’s mansion, forced the National Archives of the United States to request all former presidents and former vice presidents country to review their personal records to determine if they have confidential documents.
Both the White House and Biden himself have stressed their full willingness to collaborate in the Justice Department’s investigations and have tried to distance themselves from the case of the confidential documents found by the FBI in the mansion of former President Donald Trump (2017-2021). in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.
Source: TSF