DOJ searching Biden Delaware beach home amid classified document investigation
There is no warrant and Biden consented to the search, according to his attorney
FBI searching Biden's Rehoboth Beach house for classified material
Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley joined 'America's Newsroom' to discuss the 'consensual' search and the implications of Biden's alleged mishandling of classified material.
FBI agents were sent to President Biden's vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Wednesday to conduct a search for additional classified documents, the president's attorney Bob Bauer said.
"Today, with the President’s full support and cooperation, the DOJ is conducting a planned search of his home in Rehoboth, Delaware. Under DOJ’s standard procedures, in the interests of operational security and integrity, it sought to do this work without advance public notice, and we agreed to cooperate," Bauer said in a statement.
"The search today is a further step in a thorough and timely DOJ process we will continue to fully support and facilitate. We will have further information at the conclusion of today’s search," he added.
Sources confirmed to Fox News that FBI agents are on the premises and will be until a search is complete. There is no warrant.
FBI SEARCHED PENN BIDEN CENTER IN MID-NOVEMBER, SOON AFTER CLASSIFIED DOCS DISCOVERED, SOURCES SAY
President Biden's Delaware vacation home is seen in July 2022, in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. (Fox News Photo/Joshua Comins)
President Biden walks to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, on his way to his Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, home, Aug. 7, 2022. ( AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
The FBI and Special Counsel Robert Hur did not comment.
Justice Department prosecutors were reportedly weighing a search of Biden's Rehoboth Beach home last month after several sets of classified documents were found at his residence in Wilmington, Delaware.
FBI agents have searched the Wilmington home, as well as Biden's old offices at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C., where a handful of other documents with classified markings were discovered. The Biden team has consented to each search and is working with the Justice Department to find and turn over all classified documents in Biden's possession dating to his time as vice president, though some date to when he was a senator.
So far, between 25 and 30 documents with classified markings have been recovered from Biden's possession and turned over to the National Archives and the Justice Department.
BIDEN DOCS: WHITE HOUSE REQUESTED FBI SEARCH THAT UNCOVERED LATEST BATCH OF CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS
U.S. Attorney Robert Hur arrives at U.S. District Court in Baltimore on Nov. 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark, File)
Biden, like his predecessor Donald Trump, is under special counsel investigation for his retention of classified records.
The White House has repeatedly declined to comment on the contents of the classified records, as well as the levels of the classification, saying instead that the records "have been turned over to proper authorities and will be part of the ongoing investigation." Lawmakers have pressed for more transparency on the content of those documents, but to no avail, and have accused the Biden administration of attempting to "stonewall" their efforts.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had assured reporters in mid-January that the search for new documents was over. Then new documents were found at Biden's Wilmington home on Jan. 14 and again on Jan. 20, and now Biden's Rehoboth home was searched as well.
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House Republicans are gearing up to launch an investigation into Biden's handling of classified materials, with Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., telling Fox News, "nothing that Joe Biden's done with respect to mishandling these classified documents is normal."
Fox News' Anders Hagstrom, Ronn Blitzer, Brooke Singman and Bradford Betz contributed to this report.
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