White House Says More Documents Marked As Classified Were Found At Joe Biden’s Home
deadline.comA lawyer for President Joe Biden said that additional documents with classified markings were found at his Wilmington home, after previously saying that a single page was found in that room.
Richard Sauber, a White House lawyer, said in a statement on Saturday that because he has a security clearance, he went to the Wilmington home on Thursday evening to secure a single document that was found a day earlier. “While I was transferring it to the DOJ official who accompanied me, five additional pages with classification markings were discovered among the material with it, for a total of six pages.
The DOJ officials with me immediately took possession of them.” Biden’s team had previously acknowledged the discovery of documents with classified markings in the garage of the residence.
Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Robert Hur as special counsel on Thursday to investigate the handling of the documents and whether any laws were broken.
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