The FBI searched President Joe Biden’s vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Wednesday without finding any classified documents.
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Biden’s attorneys revealed last month that they had undertaken their search of the home without turning up classified materials. The fact the FBI did its own search reflected the Justice Department’s determination to retrieve any and all possible classified items rather than rely on assurances that such documents had been located.
Searches of Biden’s former office and Delaware homes, by contrast, have all been done voluntarily and without a warrant. The White House did not disclose the Justice Department’s investigation until last month, when it acknowledged the Nov. 2 discovery of a “small number” of classified documents by Biden lawyers as they closed an office at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank affiliated with the Ivy League school.Article content
“I think we’ve been pretty transparent from the very beginning,” he said. “We want to be careful to be very respectful of the integrity of that ongoing investigation.”“The president has been fully cooperative in offering unprecedented access to his home … every single room of his home in Rehoboth as well as the one in Wilmington,” he said.Article contentBiden’s lawyers have described the retention of the records as a “mistake.
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