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BREAKING: SECOND batch of classified Biden documents found elsewhere, after the president said he was ‘shocked’ by the first discovery and takes the matter ‘seriously’
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Aides to President Biden have discovered a second trove of classified documents in a different location than the last set, a person familiar with NBC News told.
The level of classification, the number and the exact location of the documents is still unclear.
The fountain saying that since the first discovery of classified materials in November, Biden aides have been searching for additional secret documents that need to be returned to the National Archives.
It was reported on Monday that the president’s lawyers had discovered documents in November in his office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, DC, which he used after his time as vice president.
The documents were discovered in a locked cabinet while the lawyers were clearing out the office to move out.
Since the White House admitted Monday that Biden’s lawyers had found 10 documents with classified marks in a former Washington, DC think tank office, the president has been peppered with questions about the discovery.
President Joe Biden said he was “shocked” that classified documents were found in his former office at the Penn-Biden Center, a think tank in Washington, DC.
The DC office building where 10 classified documents were found in a former office of now-President Joe Biden
The classified documents that appeared to be from the Obama administration were found on November 2, before the midterm elections, although news of the documents did not break until months later.
On Wednesday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked if Biden had investigated whether he could have taken other documents to any other offices he has or to his homes in Wilmington and Rehoboth, Delaware.
She refused to give an answer. ‘I’m just not going to talk about this. I’m going to let the process continue. It is an ongoing process. So I’m just not going to talk about this from here. It is wiser and more appropriate for my colleagues on the White House Council.
Biden was asked about the documents at the top of his trilateral news conference Tuesday in Mexico City, joined by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The president said he was “shocked” to discover that classified documents were discovered in a box in a locked cabinet. But he said his lawyers “did what they should have done.”
“They immediately called the Archives, they immediately called the Archives, they turned it over to the Archives,” the president said.
The documents were discovered on November 2 and delivered to the Archive on November 3.
Biden said he did not know the contents of the documents and that his lawyers suggested that he not ask.
“And we are fully cooperating with the review,” the president added.
Republicans have shouted about a “double standard”: Trump’s possession of classified documents made him the target of a raid at Mar-a-Lago in August.
Biden’s team has pointed out that in the Trump case, the FBI knew that Trump had not fully complied with a subpoena from the Files to return all classified documents. In the Biden case, the Archives was unaware of the missing documents.
The former chairman of the House Intel Committee told reporters that any time classified documents are found where they don’t belong, it’s a “deep concern.”