Lawyers for United States President Joe Biden have reportedly discovered about five additional pages with classified markings at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, and handed them over to the Department of Justice.
In a statement on Saturday, White House lawyer Richard Sauber revealed that he found the additional pages on Thursday during a visit to the president’s home to facilitate the handover of a document with classified markings that was found there earlier.
‘While I was transferring it to the DOJ officials who accompanied me, five additional pages with classification markings were discovered among the material with it, for a total of six pages,’ Sauber said. ‘The DOJ officials with me immediately took possession of them.’
The latest disclosure is in addition to the discovery of documents found in December in Biden’s garage and in November at his former offices at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, DC, from his time as vice president during the Obama administration.
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Africa Today News, New York reports that the apparent mishandling of classified documents and official records from the Obama administration is under investigation by a former US attorney, Robert Hur, who was appointed as a special counsel on Thursday by Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Sauber has previously said that the White House was ‘confident that a thorough review will show that these documents were inadvertently misplaced, and the president and his lawyers acted promptly upon discovery of this mistake’.
Sauber’s statement did not explain why the White House waited two days to provide an updated accounting of the number of classified records. The White House is already facing scrutiny for waiting more than two months to acknowledge the discovery of the initial group of documents at the Biden office.