Washington:A lawyer for US President Joe Biden has said that no classified documents were found in the latter's beach house in Rehoboth, Delaware, during an FBI search of the property. Wednesday's search was the latest in a series carried out at various locations, after classified documents were found at the Penn Biden Center, an office space that Biden had used when he was Vice President, in Washington D.C. last November, which was not made public at the time, the BBC reported. More documents were discovered at another of Biden's homes in Wilmington, Delaware, in searches conducted in December 2022 and last month.
In a statement issued late Wednesday, Biden's lawyer, Bob Bauer, said the search that lasted from 8.30 a.m. to 12 noon was "planned" with the President's "full support". "No documents with classified markings were found," he said, adding that some "materials and handwritten notes" that appear to date to Biden's time as Vice President between 2009 and 2017 were taken for "further review". The exact number of classified records recovered to date remains unclear, although at least a dozen were found during the January searches alone.