The FBI carried out an inspection of the Penn Center office that Biden used after leaving the Vice Presidency of the United States in November last year, after lawyers for the president found classified documents in that place, US media said.
The personal attorneys for the White House and Joe Biden did not previously disclose the search for FBI agents in the office, even as they faced weeks of questions about the discovery of classified documents, according to information from NBC.
Likewise, two sources related to the investigation indicated to the aforementioned medium that Biden’s lawyers fully cooperated with the search and that the Department of Justice did not issue any search warrant, something that did happen in August when Donald Trump’s house was raided. .
Biden’s team also worked with the Department of Justice in the subsequent FBI search of his home in Wilmington, Delaware, for which he issued a warrant, the EFE agency reported.
In an interview on CNN, the White House communications director, Kate Bedingfield, defended the “transparency” with which the Administration acted, collaborating with the Department of Justice, and adding that the president took the issue ” seriously”.
The information comes weeks after classified Biden documents were found from the time he was vice president of Barack Obama and a senator from Delaware between 1973 and 2009.
The documents were found in the president’s home in Wilmington and in his private office at the Penn Biden Center think tank in Washington DC.
However, the president’s documents were found by his own lawyers and turned over to the authorities, without the need for the intervention of the Department of Justice to recover the papers, as happened with Donald Trump.