WASHINGTON Jan 31 The FBI raided the president's Washington office United States Joe Biden in November last year, the White House had not previously reported on it, CBS reported on Tuesday.
FBI searches of the premises that Biden has occupied since 2018 while serving as Vice President of the United States in the administration of Barack Obama took place in November shortly after Biden's employees first discovered secret documents and transferred them to the National Archives.
«The searches came after Biden's lawyer agreed to a search of his former office at the Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, where on November 2 his aides found about 12 documents marked «secret,» writes the publication with It is not known whether additional documents were found during the search.
«The White House did not report the FBI search,» the newspaper notes.
Previously, journalists have repeatedly tried to find out the details of the story
U.S. President Joe Biden, like his predecessor Donald Trump, has been touched by a scandal over their handling of In January, it became known that a batch of classified documents had been found in the building of a Biden-linked think tank in Washington. date back to the period when Biden served as Vice President of the United States in the administration of Barack Obama. Later, classified papers were also found in Biden's home in Wilmington.
A similar situation happened to former US President, Republican Donald Trump. In August last year, she served as a pretext for conducting searches at the politician's estate in Mar-a-Lago in Florida.