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The White House announced Saturday that more classified documents had been found
in the Delaware home of President Biden on Thursday, raising additional
questions about why the discovery was not previously disclosed. 

White House lawyer Richard Sauber made the announcement shortly before noon
Saturday, noting in a written a statement that “five additional pages with
classification markings were discovered among the material with it, for a total
of six pages.” 

According to Sauber, the Department of Justice “immediately took possession of
them.” 

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre made no mention of those five
additional pages during a Friday press conference. When asked Thursday about the
possibility of additional classified information being unearthed in subsequent
searches, Jean-Pierre replied, “You should assume that it’s been completed,
yes.” 

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Improperly stored classified documents have been discovered in three locations
thus far. 

First, according to Attorney General Merrick Garland, "a small number” were
found on November 2 in an office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and
Global Engagement in Washington, D.C. 

Second, on December 20, according to the DOJ, Biden’s personal lawyers
discovered a second batch of classified documents in the garage of his Delaware
home. 



Third, last Thursday, the White House acknowledged that “one page” of classified
information had been discovered in “an adjacent room.” It wasn’t until Saturday
that White House counsel announced that five additional pages were discovered
that same day.

In the lengthiest statement to date, the White House counsel laid out on
Saturday more about that discovery as well as the principles and process guiding
the White House as they seek to “coordinate with the Archives and the Department
of Justice.” 

Sauber said Biden’s personal lawyers halted their search Wednesday when they
came across the previously reported page of classified material because they “do
not have active security clearances.” 

“Because I have a security clearance, I went to Wilmington Thursday evening to
facilitate providing the document the President's personal counsel found on
Wednesday to the Justice Department,” Sauber wrote. “While I was transferring it
to the DOJ officials who accompanied me, five additional pages with
classification markings were discovered among the material with it, for a total
of six pages. The DOJ officials with me immediately took possession of them.” 



The White House has insisted repeatedly that they are working to handle the
classified material “by the book,” and Sauber said again Saturday that the
president’s personal lawyers “acted immediately and voluntarily” to turn all
information over to the DOJ and National Archives. The issue now, he concluded,
is in the hands of the special counsel appointed by the attorney general to
handle the matter.

“We’ve now publicly released specific details about the documents identified,
how they were identified, and where they were found,” he wrote. “The appointment
of the Special Counsel in this matter this week means we will now refer specific
questions to the Special Counsel’s office moving forward.”

The consecutive disclosures of improperly stored classified documents have
raised questions of Biden’s handling of intelligence while vice president and
whether the White House has been fully transparent throughout those revelations.

“We first learned about the Penn Biden Center classified documents months after
they were found in an unsecure closet. Then it took the White House weeks to
inform the public about the documents found in President Biden’s Wilmington
garage. And now days later, we are learning that there are more documents at the
Wilmington residence,” Rep. James Comer, chair of the House Oversight Committee
said in a statement Saturday afternoon. “Are there more classified documents to
be found?”

Biden first addressed the documents found in the Penn Biden Center Tuesday while
in Mexico City, but made no mention of the documents discovered in his home. It
wasn’t until Thursday that Biden spoke about the classified documents in his
garage.

“It’s not like they’re sitting out in the street,” Biden said, confirming that
the classified information was behind locked doors in his garage, “as well as my
Corvette.” 

When pressed on why Biden spoke about the documents found in the private office,
but not those discovered in his home, Jean-Pierre told reporters, “Because there
was a process happening that was currently ongoing.” 

When asked why the five pages of additional documents weren’t disclosed earlier,
a spokesman for the White House declined to comment and referred
RealClearPolitics to the White House counsel’s office.

Bob Bauer, the president’s personal lawyer, released a separate statement on
Saturday, explaining how Biden’s legal team has “attempted to balance the
importance of public transparency where appropriate with the established norms
and limitations necessary to protect the investigation’s integrity.” He added
that “these considerations require avoiding the public release of detail
relevant to the investigation while it is ongoing.”

Biden said Thursday, “I’m going to get a chance to speak on all this, God
willing, soon,” though the White House has not released details about any
forthcoming address. The discovery of documents seems to have caught the
president off-guard. He said as much Tuesday in Mexico City, telling reporters
he was “surprised to learn that there were any government records that were
taken there to that office.”




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