The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) conducted a consensual search of President Joe Biden’s Rehoboth, Delaware, beach home on Wednesday morning.
The search, which lasted for more than three hours, yielded no documents marked classified, according to Biden’s personal lawyer Bob Bauer.
Agents, however, “took for further review some materials and handwritten notes that appear to relate to his time as Vice President,” Bauer stated.
This is the first known time the FBI has searched Biden’s Rehoboth residence.
No warrants were obtained for this search or the two prior FBI searches of other locations linked to Biden.
The DOJ is currently investigating the discovery of classified documents at a private office in a Washington, D.C., think tank that Biden had used while a private citizen, and at his residence in Wilmington, Delaware.
Biden’s lawyer had previously declared that the President’s lawyers searched the Rehoboth residence and the Wilmington home on Jan 11. They found classified records in Wilmington, but not in Rehoboth.
“Today, with the President’s full support and cooperation, the DOJ is conducting a planned search of his home in Rehoboth, Delaware,” Bauer said in a statement earlier Wednesday. “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.”
He added, “The search today is a further step in a thorough and timely DOJ process we will continue to fully support and facilitate.”
Bauer later confirmed that the search had finished. “No documents with classified markings were found,” he stated.
White House spokesman Ian Sams referred CNBC to Bauer’s statement when asked for comment on the search.
