The FBI seized an unknown number of documents from President Joe Biden’s vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Wednesday.
Beginning at 8:30 a.m., FBI agents searched the property for, presumably, classified documents and other materials improperly in Biden’s possession. The president’s personal attorney, Bob Bauer, described the operation as a “planned search.”
The search lasted approximately three and a half hours, according to Bauer. Though FBI agents discovered no classified documents, they seized materials dated from Biden’s tenure as vice president.
“The DOJ’s planned search of the President’s Rehoboth residences, conducted in coordination and cooperation with the President’s attorneys, has concluded,” Bauer said. “The search was conducted from 8:30 AM to noon.
“No documents with classified markings were found,” he added. “Consistent with the process in Wilmington, the DOJ took for further review some materials and handwritten notes that appear to relate to his time as Vice President.”
The carefully worded statement, emphasizing that agents found nothing with classified markings, does not exclude the possibility that what agents seized was classified. Indeed, not every document or parcel with classified…
