More classified files found at Biden’s home: White House

US President Joe Biden’s special counsel has said that five additional pages with classified markings were discovered at the president’s Delaware home on Thursday, and they were immediately handed over to Department of Justice officials.

Richard Sauber said on Saturday that during his visit to Biden’s home in Wilmington on Thursday to facilitate the handover of a document with classified markings that was found there earlier, additional documents were found.

“While I was transferring it to the DOJ officials who accompanied me, five additional pages with classification markings were discovered among the material with it, for a total of six pages. The DOJ officials with me immediately took possession of them,” Sauber said in a statement.

The White House had said previously that only a single page was found during a search of Biden’s private library.

In December, documents were found in Biden’s garage and in November, they were found at his former offices at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, from his time as vice president.

Biden’s legal team acknowledged this week it had found classified documents relating to his time as vice president in the Obama administration at his Delaware home, including some in his garage.

President’s personal lawyers were going through his things, when “they saw a document marked classified”, Al Jazeera’s Patty Culhane said reporting from Washington, DC.

“Because they [lawyers] didn’t have clearance to look at any secret or top secret information, they shut the box, shut the room, notified the Department of Justice,” Culhane explained.