U.S. Justice Dept found more classified items in Biden home search - Reuters

WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - A caller hunt of President Joe Biden's location successful Wilmington, Delaware connected Friday by the U.S. Justice Department recovered six much items, including documents with classification markings, a lawyer for the president said successful a connection Saturday night.

Some of the classified documents and "surrounding materials" dated from Biden's tenure successful the U.S. Senate, wherever helium represented Delaware from 1973 to 2009, according to his lawyer, Bob Bauer. Other documents were from his tenure arsenic vice president successful the Obama administration, from 2009 done 2017, Bauer said.

The Department of Justice, which conducted a hunt that lasted implicit 12 hours, besides took immoderate notes that Biden had personally handwritten arsenic vice president, according to the lawyer.

The president offered entree "to his location to let DOJ to behaviour a hunt of the full premises for imaginable vice-presidential records and imaginable classified material," Bauer said.

Neither Biden nor his woman were contiguous during the search, the lawyer said. Biden is successful Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, for the weekend.

Justice Department investigators coordinated the hunt with Biden's lawyers up of time, Bauer said, and the president's idiosyncratic and White House lawyers were contiguous astatine the time.

Other classified authorities records were discovered this period astatine Biden's Wilmington residence, and successful November astatine a backstage bureau helium maintained astatine a Washington, D.C., deliberation vessel aft ending his tenure arsenic vice president successful the Obama medication successful 2017.

On Saturday, Bauer did not marque wide successful his connection wherever successful the Wilmington location the documents were found. The erstwhile classified documents were recovered successful the home's store and successful a adjacent retention space.

The hunt shows national investigators are swiftly moving guardant with the probe into classified documents recovered successful Biden's possession. This month, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland named a peculiar counsel to probe the matter.

Special counsel Robert Hur, who was appointed during the process, is investigating however the president and his squad handled Obama-era classified documents that were precocious recovered successful Biden's backstage possession.

Biden's lawyers recovered each the documents discovered earlier Friday's hunt by the DOJ, according to the White House. The latest hunt was the archetypal clip national instrumentality enforcement authorities person conducted a hunt for authorities documents astatine Biden's backstage addresses, according to accusation released publicly.

Republicans person compared the probe to the ongoing probe into however erstwhile President Donald Trump handled classified documents aft his presidency. The White House has noted that Biden's squad has cooperated with authorities successful their probe and had turned implicit those documents. Trump resisted doing truthful until an FBI hunt successful August astatine his Florida resort.

The hunt escalates the ineligible and governmental stakes for the president, who has insisted that the erstwhile find of classified worldly astatine his location and erstwhile bureau would yet beryllium deemed inconsequential.

Biden said connected Thursday helium has "no regrets" astir not publically disclosing earlier the midterm elections the find of classified documents astatine his erstwhile bureau and helium believed the substance volition beryllium resolved.

"There is nary there, there," Biden told reporters during a travel to California connected Thursday.

Since the find of Biden's documents, Trump has complained that Justice Department investigators were treating his successor differently.

"When is the F.B.I. going to raid the galore homes of Joe Biden, possibly adjacent the White House?" Trump said successful a societal media station earlier this month.

Reporting by Nandita Bose, Matt Spetalnik, Steve Holland and Joel Schectman Editing by Nick Zieminski and David Gregorio

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