Justice Department conducts search of Biden's Wilmington home and finds more classified materials - CNN

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Justice Department investigators connected Friday recovered further classified worldly aft conducting a hunt of President Joe Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware, home, the president’s idiosyncratic lawyer said successful a statement.

Bob Bauer said that during the search, which took spot implicit astir 12 hours Friday, “DOJ took possession of materials it deemed wrong the scope of its inquiry, including six items consisting of documents with classification markings and surrounding materials, immoderate of which were from the President’s work successful the Senate and immoderate of which were from his tenure arsenic Vice President. DOJ besides took for further reappraisal personally handwritten notes from the vice-presidential years.”

Those six items are successful summation to materials antecedently recovered astatine Biden’s Wilmington residence and successful his backstage office.

Bauer said that representatives of Biden’s idiosyncratic ineligible squad and the White House Counsel’s Office were contiguous during the “thorough search,” during which they had “full access” to the Biden home.

Bauer added that the DOJ “requested that the hunt not beryllium made nationalist successful advance, successful accordance with its modular procedures, and we agreed to cooperate.”

Neither Biden nor archetypal woman Dr. Jill Biden were contiguous during the search, peculiar counsel to the president Richard Sauber said successful a statement.

Biden, Sauber wrote, “has been committed to handling this responsibly due to the fact that helium takes this seriously” and helium and his squad are “working swiftly to guarantee DOJ and the Special Counsel person what they request to behaviour a thorough review.”

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