The FBI searched Joe Biden's summer home in Rehoboth Beach (Delaware) on Wednesday morning, sources told NBC News. The search was carried out after classified documents from his time with the Obama Administration were found in his Wilmington (Delaware) home and in his office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C.
This search comes a day after learning that the White House concealed the FBI’s search at the Penn Biden Center days after the first classified documents turned up.
In a statement, Bob Bauer, the president's attorney, said Biden cooperated with today's inspection and did not require a warrant:
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. 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.
Earlier this year, Bauer confirmed that he and the rest of Joe Biden's legal team found a classified document at the Wilmington home:
The president’s personal attorneys located a potential record bearing classified markings at the Wilmington residence, among stored materials inside a room adjacent to the garage. Once the president’s personal attorneys found this document, the president’s personal attorneys left the document where it was found and suspended their search of the specific space where it was located.
