FBI search President Biden's home in Delaware - BBC

The FBI is searching President Joe Biden's location successful Rehoboth, Delaware arsenic portion of an probe into classified documents, his lawyer says.

In a statement, Mr Biden's lawyer said the hunt was "planned" with the president's "full support".

CBS has reported that the probe relates to a wider probe into the handling of classified documents.

The FBI has not commented connected the search. As it was consensual, nary hunt warrant was sought.

Mr Biden's lawyer, Bob Bauer, said that the hunt was carried retired "without beforehand nationalist notice" successful the interests of "operational information and integrity".

The hunt is the latest successful a bid carried retired astatine assorted locations, pursuing the find of classified documents astatine the Penn Biden Center - an bureau abstraction - successful Washington DC successful November. This was not made nationalist astatine the time.

Additional documents were discovered astatine different of Mr Biden's homes successful Wilmington, Delaware, successful consequent searches conducted successful December and January.

Mr Biden has said his squad did "what they should person done" and are "co-operating afloat and completely" with the investigation.

The announcement of the hunt comes 1 time aft peculiar counsel Robert Hur officially began his duties overseeing the probe into the documents.

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