A new search of US President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware by the Justice Department has uncovered six more items, including documents with classification markings.
Some of the classified documents and “surrounding materials” dated from Mr Biden’s tenure in the US Senate, where he represented Delaware from 1973 to 2009, according to his lawyer, Bob Bauer.
Other documents were from his tenure as vice president in the Obama administration, from 2009 to 2017, Mr Bauer said on Saturday.
Assistant US Attorney Joseph Fitzpatrick confirmed on Saturday that the FBI had executed “a planned, consensual search” of the president’s residence in Wilmington.
The Department of Justice, which conducted a search that lasted more than 12 hours, also took some notes that Mr Biden had personally handwritten as vice president, according to the lawyer.
The president offered access “to his home to allow DOJ to conduct a search of the entire premises for potential vice-presidential records and potential classified material,” Mr Bauer said.
