Joe Biden’s aides found a second stash of classified materials dating back to his time as vice-president at an undisclosed location, a person familiar with the matter said, adding further pressure on the White House to defend his handling of sensitive government records.
The revelation came just two days after it emerged that a first batch of classified documents had been retrieved by the US president’s attorneys in early November from his private office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, a Washington think-tank where he occasionally worked before his election to the White House.
Biden on Tuesday said he was “surprised” by the existence of classified documents at his private office but did not know what they contained. He added that he believed his advisers had acted appropriately by “immediately” handing them over to the National Archives.