An FBI search of US President Joe Biden's home has turned up six additional documents containing classification markings, with agents also taking possession of some of his notes, the president's lawyer says.
Bob Bauer, the president's personal lawyer, said the search of the entire premises in Wilmington, Delaware on Friday lasted nearly 13 hours.
The documents with classification markings spanned Mr Biden's time in the Senate and the vice-presidency, while the notes dated to his time as vice-president.
The search came more than a week after Mr Biden's attorneys found six other classified documents in the president's home library from his time as vice-president, and nearly three months after lawyers found a small number of classified records at his former offices at the Penn Biden Center in Washington.
On Thursday, Mr Biden maintained that "there's no there there" on the document discoveries, which have become a political headache for the president and complicated the Justice Department's probe into former president Donald Trump's retention of classified documents and official records after he left office.
"We found a handful of documents were filed in the wrong place," Mr Biden told reporters who questioned him during a tour of the damage from storms in California.
"We immediately turned them over to the Archives and the Justice Department."
Mr Biden said he was "fully cooperating and looking forward to getting this resolved quickly."
The president and first lady Jill Biden were not at the home when it was searched. They were spending the weekend at their home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
Mr Bauer said the FBI requested that the White House not comment on the search before it was conducted, and that Mr Biden's personal and White House attorneys were present.
The FBI, he added, "had full access to the president's home, including personally handwritten notes, files, papers, binders, memorabilia, to-do lists, schedules, and reminders going back decades."
The Justice Department, he added, "took possession of materials it deemed within the scope of its inquiry, including six items consisting of documents with classification markings and surrounding materials, some of which were from the president's service in the Senate and some of which were from his tenure as vice-president."
Attorney-General Merrick Garland has appointed former Maryland US attorney Robert Hur as a special counsel to investigate any potential wrongdoing surrounding the documents.
"Since the beginning, the president has been committed to handling this responsibly because he takes this seriously," White House lawyer Richard Sauber said on Saturday.
"The president's lawyers and White House Counsel's Office will continue to cooperate with DOJ and the Special Counsel to help ensure this process is conducted swiftly and efficiently."
The Biden document discoveries and the investigation into Mr Trump, which is in the hands of special counsel Jack Smith, are significantly different.
The Justice Department says Mr Trump took hundreds of records marked classified with him upon leaving the White House in early 2021 and resisted months of requests to return them to the government.
Mr Biden has made a point of cooperating with the DOJ probe at every turn, though questions about his transparency with the public remain.
Story by: AP
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