The FBI has searched US President Joe Biden’s home in Delaware and located six documents containing classification markings and also took possession of some of his notes, his lawyer has said. Bob Bauer said the Justice Department conducted the search at Mr Biden’s Wilmington residence on Friday. He said it lasted about 13 hours.
The Justice Department “took possession of materials it deemed within the scope of its inquiry, including six items consisting of documents with classification markings and surrounding materials, some of which were from the President’s service in the Senate and some of which were from his tenure as Vice President,” Mr Bauer said in a statement. The prosecutors also “took for further review personally handwritten notes from the vice-presidential years,” he said.
The level of classification, and whether they remained classified, was not immediately clear as the Justice Department reviews the records. The search followed more than a week after Mr Biden’s lawyers found six other classified documents in the president’s home library from his time as vice president, and nearly three months after lawyers found a small number of classified records at his former offices at the Penn Biden Centre in Washington.
