Washington (EFE).- The Department of Justice is carrying out a new search in a house of the US president, Joe Biden, to try to find more classified documents that may be at the home, the president’s personal lawyer reported this Wednesday.
“Today, with the full support and cooperation of the President, the Department is conducting a planned search of his home in Rehoboth, Delaware,” the President’s attorney, Bob Bauer, said in a statement.
The search, which according to the media is being carried out by FBI agents (an agency dependent on the Department of Justice), is being carried out “in accordance with the standard procedures” of the Department and “in the interest of operational security and integrity, it was sought to do this work without prior public notice, and we agreed to cooperate,” added the lawyer.
Until now, no documents have been found at this address, but they have been found at Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, and in his private office in the Penn Biden Center think tank, in Washington.
In January it was revealed that last November the president’s team had found sensitive and classified documents from the time when he was vice president of Barack Obama (2009-2017) and when he was a senator (1973-2009).
Since then there have been several times that the US government has announced the discovery of more documents. On January 12, the Secretary of Justice, Merrick Garland, announced the appointment of a special prosecutor who will study all the classified papers found, the conservative Robert Hur.
A few days ago, the discovery of documents in the house of former Vice President Mike Pence also came to light, a situation that, added to the papers found in Donald Trump’s mansion, forced the National Archives of the United States to ask all former presidents and former vice presidents of the country to review their personal records in case they might contain confidential documents.
“The responsibility to abide by the Presidential Records Law – the regulation that obliges the delivery of all the documents of an administration to the National Archives – does not diminish when a government ends,” the National Archives explained in a letter.
Both the White House and Biden himself have insisted from the beginning on their total willingness to collaborate in these Justice Department investigations and have tried to distance themselves from the case of the classified documents found by the FBI in the mansion of former President Donald Trump (2017 -2021) in Mar-a-Lago (Florida).
