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Five more pages of classified docs found at Biden's Delaware Home

14 January 2023 22:09 (UTC +04:00)

Joe Biden's lawyers have discovered five additional pages marked classified, presidential counsel Richard Sauber has announced, APA reports citing Sputnik.

"Because I have a security clearance, I went to Wilmington Thursday evening to facilitate providing the document the President's personal counsel found on Wednesday to the Justice Department. While I was transferring it to the [Department of Justice] officials who accompanied me, five additional pages with classifications markings were discovered among the material with it, for a total of six pages. That DoJ officials with me immediately took possession of them," Sauber said in a statement Saturday morning.

The attorney reiterated that the president's lawyers had "followed a process" coordinating with the Archives Administration and the DoJ in their review of documents at the Penn Biden Center and President Biden's Delaware homes, and established a special procedure in combing the properties.

"The president's personal attorneys conducting the searches do not have active security clearances, so if they identified a document with a classified marking, they stopped and did not review it, and suspended any further search in that box, file or other specific space where the document was found, as appropriate. Since the DoJ made contact with the president's personal attorneys, the next step in the process was to notify DoJ and to arrange for DoJ to take possession of the document. This is what occurred in Wilmington on Wednesday when the president's attorneys discovered one document with a classified marking consisting of one page in a room adjacent to the garage. At that point, the president's personal attorneys stopped searching the immediate area where the document was found," Sauber said.

Sauber indicated that any further specific questions on the documents will be referred by his office to the Special Counsel's office appointed to study the materials this week, and promised that the White House would "cooperate with the newly-appointed Special Counsel moving forward.