A “small number” of government documents marked as classified were found this fall by lawyers for President Joe Biden in a locked closet in a Washington, D.C., think tank office used by Biden when he was a private citizen, his lawyer said, writes CNBC.
The Department of Justice and the National Archives and Records Administration are reviewing the circumstances surrounding the documents, according to a statement by Richard Sauber, special counsel to Biden.
Sauber said the documents appear to be from the Obama administration, during which Biden served as vice president.
The documents, Sauber said, were found at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement on November 2.
That was nearly three months after FBI agents raided the Florida residence of former President Donald Trump and seized more than 100 classified government documents and hundreds of more records that federal prosecutors say belong to the U.S. government.