Now at a second location
Biden employees find more secret documents
According to media reports, after the discovery of secret documents in a former private office of US President Joe Biden, further government documents have been found.
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After discovering secret files in a former office of Joe Biden, his team continued their search.
The secret documents that have now surfaced were discovered during a search of a second location, the US broadcaster CNN reported on Wednesday (local time), citing unnamed sources.
After the first find in November, Biden employees searched other locations for government documents. The White House initially did not confirm the reports. The content of the documents, the location and the time were still open. According to the broadcaster NBC, it is again classified documents.
On Monday it became public that Biden had kept secret documents from his time as US Vice President Barack Obama in his private offices in the Penn Biden Center in the capital Washington.
Biden was “surprised”
Biden used the premises after he left the office of Vice President in 2017 until around 2020, the White House said. The files are reported to include at least 10 top-secret documents, some of which are top-class classified.
Biden then explained that the find “surprised” him and that he did not know who had brought the documents there. At the same time, he promised “full cooperation” in the investigation.
White House dodges
The White House dodged critical questions about the first find on Wednesday and only referred to a statement from Monday. Spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre refused to comment on why the White House had not made the find public much earlier. The documents were discovered in November shortly before the midterm elections – the media finally made this public.
Jean-Pierre pointed out that the Justice Department is investigating the case and that she will not comment on it. The find is politically extremely sensitive for Biden, because his predecessor Donald Trump caused a scandal with a similar case in the summer. (SDA)