Five additional pages of confidential documents were found in a room adjacent to the garage of US President Joe Biden's family home in Wilmington, Delaware, the White House said on Saturday.
These documents, which date from the vice-presidency of Joe Biden, were found after the arrival on the spot Thursday evening of the lawyer of the presidency Richard Sauber, specifies the latter in a press release.
They are added to other files found in this private residence, whose existence the White House had revealed on Thursday, as well as to other confidential documents discovered last November in an office in Washington.
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Monday evening, a scoop from the CBS channel had indeed revealed that Biden had also kept classified documents, dating from the time when he was Obama's vice-president.
These documents were found in Washington in the offices of his political think tank, the
Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement
(Centre for diplomacy and global initiatives) on November 2, 2022, a few days before the mid-term elections. mandate.
They would then have been discreetly handed over to the National Archives, and their discovery kept confidential.
The White House initially declined to comment on this CBS revelation.
Then, a Biden adviser admitted that a “
small number of classified documents
” had indeed been discovered at the bottom of a closet by Biden’s personal lawyers in the Center’s offices, and given to the national archives.
Intelligence “Top Secret” Reports
On Wednesday, NBC News reported that a new batch of documents had been discovered by the president's legal team, this time at Biden's private residence in Wilmington, Delaware.
Some of the documents were in the library.
Others were stored in the garage that houses the president's Chevrolet Corvette convertible.
The Biden's second home in the resort town of Rehobot Beach was also searched, but no other documents were found.
The initial batch would have contained 10 classified documents, including US intelligence reports and briefing notes on Ukraine, Iran and the UK.
Some were classified “Top secret”, the highest level.
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