The White House confirmed on Saturday that President Joe Biden's legal team had discovered additional classified materials at the POTUS house in Wilmington, Delaware, than had been previously disclosed.
In a statement, White House counsel Richard Sauber revealed that six pages of secret material were discovered in Biden's personal library. The White House earlier said that just one page was discovered, per AP News.
This new information on the Biden scandal comes on the heels of the announcement that records from Biden's tenure as vice president were discovered in his garage in December and his old offices at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, DC, in November.
Former US Attorney Robert Hur is now serving as a special counsel appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday to investigate the possible mishandling of Biden's classified documents and official records from the Obama administration.
White House Lawyer Acknowledges 'Mistake' on Handling Confidential Documents
On Saturday, Sauber released a statement saying that Biden's private attorneys, who lacked security clearances, had abandoned their search after seeing the first page on Wednesday night. Sauber spotted "five additional pages with classification markings were discovered among the material with it, for a total of six pages," Thursday while helping the Department of Justice (DOJ) retrieve sensitive documents.
Sauber noted that the DOJ took immediate possession of the classified materials amid the Biden scandal.
Sauber earlier said that the White House was "confident" that a comprehensive assessment would establish that these papers were "inadvertently misplaced," and President Joe Biden and his counsel moved immediately upon notice of this mistake."
Biden Administration Lambasted For Double Standards
Several prominent conservatives have publicly questioned why the FBI hasn't raided Biden's house as they did with ex-President Trump after being informed that even more secret material had been located on his property on Saturday, as reported by Fox News.
Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert took her reaction to social media over "ANOTHER throve of classified documents" retrieved from Biden's home after the White House announced that the search of the POTUS residence was "complete."
She tweeted: "Looks like they've got documents coming out of the woodworks over in Wilmington. Still no FBI raid..."
Tom Fitton, head of Judicial Watch, commented on Twitter, "Biden DOJ is a corrupt mess" as Biden's White House Counsel visits Joe Biden's Delaware home to search for documents after the appointment of a special prosecutor, while Donald Trump offered DOJ officials to go through the sensitive documents found in his Mar-a-Lago home, which was denied by Biden, leading to an FBI raid on the Trump house.
Biden White House Counsel travels to Biden Delaware home with Biden DOJ officials to look for docs -- AFTER Special Counsel is appointed? But Trump's home gets FBI raid after Biden DOJ officials refuse Trump offer to let them look through records. Biden DOJ is corrupt mess.
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) January 14, 2023
In a news conference on Thursday, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, a Republican, accused the Biden administration of double standards on handling the Biden classified documents issue.
"Another faux pas by the Biden administration by treating law differently based upon your political beliefs," McCarthy said, as per an NPR news story.
On Thursday, Attorney General Garland used "extraordinary circumstances" to explain the Biden scandal. The inquiry will be carried out per departmental regulations, but the special counsel is not subject to daily Justice Department inspection, which is done to prevent even the appearance of meddling.
