The White House confirms that more classified documents have been found at US President Joe Biden’s property in Delaware than first said.
Joe Biden’s lawyers found more secret documents in the residence than first said, according to the White House.
This is reported by Reuters, which writes that it will be about five more classified documents.
Thus the total number up to approximately 20, writes CBS News.
The documents have thus been found in two different places. Next to the garage of the President of the United States at his private address in Wilmington Delaware, and in an office Biden disposed of at a think tank.
The documents in question should have been found a few hours after Thursday’s announcement, according to sources to The New York Times.
– When I handed it over to the people from the Ministry of Justice who were with me, another five pages of classified information were discovered in the material. In total there were six pages. The Ministry of Justice’s representatives immediately took care of the material, says Biden’s special adviser Richard Sauber in a statement on Saturday according to NTB.
– We are convinced that the investigation will show that these were misplaced, said the press secretary in the White House on Friday.
Appointed Special Investigator
According to ABC News is Robert Hur appointed to special investigator special investigator Special investigators may be appointed in politically sensitive cases. They must work independently from the leadership in the Ministry of Justice and the President. by Attorney General Merrick Garland after the findings on Thursday.
Robert Hur is a former federal prosecutor in Maryland, and is taking over the investigation from the federal prosecutor’s office in Chicago.
The news agency Reuters reports on Thursday evening that Biden claims that he does not know what is in the classified documents, and that he did not show that they were there either.
– Still don’t know much
The documents are said to date from his time as vice president for former President Barack Obama.
– We do not know why the documents were at his private address, and how they ended up there. We also do not know what type of documents these are yet. There are different levels of classified information, said Høgestøl, who is an associate professor of jurisprudence at the University of Oslo and first deputy in the Storting for the Oslo Liberal Party.
US expert Sofie Høgestøl described the situation on Thursday as difficult for the democratic president.
– This is both a political and legal problem for Biden, says Høgestøl.
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