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The Telegraph – Jan 22, 2023

The FBI has searched US President Joe Biden’s home and found six more documents containing classified markings.

Investigators also took possession of some of Mr Biden’s notes, the president’s lawyer said on Saturday night.

The president voluntarily allowed the FBI into his home, but the lack of a search warrant did not dim the extraordinary nature of the search.

It compounded the embarrassment to Mr Biden that started with the disclosure on January 12 that the president’s attorneys had found a “small number” of classified records at a former office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington shortly before the midterm elections. Since then, attorneys found six classified documents in Mr Biden’s Wilmington home library from his time as vice president.

The discoveries have become a political liability as Mr Biden prepares to launch a reelection bid, and they undercut his efforts to portray an image of propriety to the American public after the tumultuous presidency of his predecessor, Donald Trump.

The documents taken by the FBI spanned Mr Biden’s time in the Senate and the vice presidency, while the notes dated to his time as vice president, said Bob Bauer, the president’s personal lawyer.

He added that the search of the entire premises lasted nearly 13 hours. Mr Biden and his wife Jill were not present for the search as they were spending the weekend at their other property in Rehoboth Beach, in Delaware.

The level of classification, and whether the documents removed by the FBI remained classified, was not immediately clear as the Justice Department reviews the records.

“We found a handful of documents were filed in the wrong place,” Mr Biden had told reporters on Thursday. “We immediately turned them over to the Archives and the Justice Department.”

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