Justice Department Considered but Rejected Role in Biden Documents Search - WSJ - The Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON—The Justice Department considered having FBI agents show a hunt by President Biden’s lawyers for classified documents astatine his homes but decided against it, some to debar complicating aboriginal stages of the probe and due to the fact that Mr. Biden’s attorneys had rapidly turned implicit a archetypal batch and were cooperating, according to radical acquainted with the matter. 

After Mr. Biden’s lawyers discovered documents marked arsenic classified dating from his word arsenic vice president astatine an bureau helium utilized astatine a Washington-based deliberation vessel connected Nov. 2, the Justice Department opened an enquiry into why and however they got there. Mr. Biden’s ineligible squad prepared to hunt his different properties for immoderate akin documents, and discussed with the Justice Department the imaginable of having FBI agents contiguous portion Mr. Biden’s lawyers conducted the further searches.