‘Second batch of Joe Biden classified documents found at another location’
The report comes two days after it was revealed that roughly 10 classified documents were found at Biden's office at a think tank.
President Joe Biden’s aides have reportedly found at least one additional batch of classified documents at a different location than the office where roughly 10 were discovered earlier.
Biden’s aides had been looking for classified material in other places since such documents were found in November at his office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, a source told NBC News on Wednesday.
It was not immediately clear what the exact location of the additional documents was, how many pages there were, or their classification level. When they were found was also not clear.
Biden’s aides have been looking through documents at various locations to see if there is any material that needs to be handed over to the National Archives and the Justice Department, the source said. The objective was to have full accounting on documents that may have been packed and moved inadvertently as Biden left his desk as vice president in 2017.
The White House did not immediately comment on the new report.
It comes two days after CBS News reported that about 10 classified documents were identified by special counsel to the president Richard Sauber on November 2. The White House Counsel’s Office notified the National Archives that same day and the agency took the materials from the think tank the next day, Sauber said.
The documents were from Biden’s time as vice president.
Personal attorneys for Biden found the documents as they ‘were packing files housed in a locked closet to prepare to vacate office space at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, DC’, according to Sauber.
Biden served as vice president during the Obama administration from 2009 to 2017. He announced that the Penn Biden Center was opening in 2018 and that he would have an office there.
US Attorney General Merrick Garland has asked a US attorney in Chicago to examine the batch of classified material uncovered in November.
On Tuesday, Biden said he was ‘surprised’ by the discovery of the roughly 10 classified documents and that he did not know what they contained.
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