More classified material found at Joe Biden's Delaware home

An further 5 pages of classified worldly has been recovered successful US President Joe Biden's household location successful Delaware, the White House has said.

Mr Biden's lawyer Richard Sauber said helium discovered the further documents connected Thursday which were instantly handed to the Justice Department.

Mr Biden's lawyers person said the documents subordinate to his clip arsenic Barack Obama's vice-president.

A peculiar counsel is investigating Mr Biden's handling of the files.

The find of documents passim the probe has been called a governmental embarrassment for Mr Biden, arsenic it comes during an ongoing probe into former President Donald Trump's ain alleged mishandling of classified files.

One papers with classified markings had already been recovered successful the store of Mr Biden's Delaware household location this week, wherever helium keeps his 1960s Chevrolet Corvette sports car.

But now, the White House has said an further 5 pages of classified documents were recovered astatine Mr Biden's residence connected Thursday evening.

In a connection shared connected Twitter, Mr Sauber said the president's lawyers did not person information clearance and truthful stopped searching the contiguous country wherever the archetypal leafage of classified worldly was recovered connected Wednesday.

But Mr Sauber, who has information clearance, says helium returned to Mr Biden's Delaware location connected Thursday evening to get the documents acceptable to manus to the Justice Department.

That was erstwhile Mr Sauber recovered the further classified material.

"While I was transferring it to the DOJ [Department of Justice] officials who accompanied me, 5 further pages with classification markings were discovered among the worldly with it, for a full of six pages," Mr Sauber said.

He added that the White House volition co-operate with the recently appointed peculiar counsel.

The six pages recovered successful Mr Biden's location this week are successful summation to documents recovered successful Mr Biden's store successful December and astatine his erstwhile offices astatine the Penn Biden Center successful November.

On Friday, CBS News reported that astir 10 documents discovered astatine the Penn Biden Center, and marked arsenic classified, included apical concealed material.

There are 3 basal levels of US classification: confidential, concealed and apical secret. A leak of apical concealed accusation could origin "exceptionally sedate damage".

Republicans are calling connected the White House to merchandise visitant logs of Mr Biden's homes, but the White House has refused to accidental if specified accusation volition beryllium divulged.

During his clip successful office, Mr Biden has spent astir 200 days - oregon much than a 4th of his presidency - successful his location authorities of Delaware, according to an Associated Press tally, including a enactment successful Wilmington this weekend.

Mr Trump is besides nether probe by the Justice Department aft helium kept much than 300 classified files - including immoderate marked concealed and apical concealed - astatine his Mar-a-Lago property successful Florida.

Some of these were seized by FBI agents executing a hunt warrant past August.

The papers lone began to travel to airy successful quality reports past Monday, but the archetypal batch was recovered astatine Mr Biden's erstwhile institute, the Penn Biden Center successful Washington DC, backmost successful November.