Joe Biden Classified Documents Scandal: More Materials Found in Delaware Home; Sources Say More Probe Needed

More information regarding President Joe Biden's classified documents scandal has been released. The White House said more new materials were found at the president's Delaware home.

In a statement released on Saturday, White House special counsel, Richard Sauber, noted that six pages of documents marked as classified were found at Biden's Wilmington residence.

The White House earlier said that only one page was found there. Sauber said the additional five documents were discovered earlier this week, and Justice Department officials immediately took the materials, CNBC News reported.

The second batch of the classified documents was found in Biden's Delaware residence garage on December 20.

The president's lawyers have conducted another search of the home and found additional records in a room next to the garage.

Biden's personal attorney, Bob Bauer, said they are working to balance public transparency to protect the "investigation's integrity."

Government records must be handed over to the National Archives at the end of every administration under the law.

To oversee the classified documents found in Biden's possession, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed former federal prosecutor Robert Hur as special counsel to investigate the materials.

Joe Biden Classified Documents Scandal Probe

Sources noted that all the documents, including those found in Biden's think tank office, are being looked for damage assessment, ABC News reported.

However, the records found at Biden's house in Delaware will be the focus of the investigation as it aims to see if the president may have been able to use those for personal or financial gain.

Sources familiar with the matter told ABC News that the classified documents found in November at Biden's old office at the University of Pennsylvania in Washington D.C. could be explained more quickly.

But materials found at his residence would create much more concern as it raises the question of whether there was a personal involvement or interest in the matter.

Sources noted that the documents' presence there meant there would need to be a more intensive investigation.

Justice Department officials have highlighted that they have not determined whether Biden planned to break any law.

Sauber noted that the White House would cooperate with the Justice Department's probe of the materials.

The Biden attorney said they were "confident" that the review will show the classified documents were "inadvertently misplaced."

He added in a statement that the president and his lawyers "acted promptly" on the discovery of the documents.

Timeline of the Classified Documents

The discovery of the first batch of the classified documents happened in November last year. Joe Biden earlier said he was surprised to learn about the materials found in his previous office.

However, the president did not disclose that more documents had been found. It was only recently, on January 12, that the White House publicly acknowledged that the documents were found in Biden's garage.

Meanwhile, Rep. Adam Schiff noted that there might be a possibility that national security may have been jeopardized by the president's mishandling of the materials.

Schiff added that he thinks an assessment of the documents found in Biden's possession must be done, the same as the intelligence assessment applied to the Mar-a-Lago documents.

The Democratic representative said he would "reserve judgment" on whether the Biden administration should have revealed the discovery of the documents earlier.

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Written by: Mary Webber

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