They showed up new documents reserved in the residence of Joe Biden in Wilmington, Delaware. The news was announced by the White House, which said six files had been discovered this week alone. The new sites came to light after the same White House spokeswoman Karine Jean Pierre, he said the search was over. The material was handed over to the authorities.
The latest discovery
The latest secret documents are five. Previously, ten classified documents were found last fall, some with a maximum level of confidentialityregarding Biden’s years as Vice President, in his private offices at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington.
In announcing the new discovery, Biden’s attorney said, Robert Bauer, defended the work of the White House trying to strike a balance between transparency and compliance with “the rules and boundaries necessary to protect the integrity of the investigation”. The documents were allegedly found in the past few days, shortly after the announcement of the papers found in Biden’s Delaware garage.
Biden’s documents
We recall that a few days after the Justice Department’s decision to appoint a super prosecutor, another discovery was made, Robert Hur, tasked with shedding light on the Obama-Biden administration documents uncovered at various times. The first discovery dates back to Nov. 2, when the current US president’s attorneys discovered files kept in an old office in Washington that Biden had occupied between 2017 and 2019.
According to CBS reports, some of the documents found from Joe Biden’s former office were classified as “top secret‘, the highest level of secrecy on the American confidentiality scale (confidential, secret and top secret). At least 10 of the papers found would be top secret out of a total of 20 confidential documents found in the president’s former office and home in Delaware.
The White House Response
Yesterday, White House spokeswoman Jean-Pierre ruled out any response on the matter to journalists’ first question about classified documents. “I want to be careful, I won’t go into detail from here, for more information I invite you to contact the Department of Justice or the President’s legal advisers.” White House‘ he stressed.
For his part, President Biden remained “surprisedof the discovery, but once identified he took the matter “very seriously” and immediately notified the national archives and the Justice Department, adding Jean-Pierre himself at a news conference, stating Biden had “inadvertently” withheld the documents.
“We are confident that a thorough review will show that these documents were inadvertently misplaced and that the President and his attorneys acted immediately upon discovering this error,” Sauber reiterated. We’ll see if any new documents or more details on the matter emerge over the next few hours.