White House: More documents with classified markings found at Biden’s Delaware home

More classified documents from the Obama administration were found in President Joe Biden’s Delaware residence this week — in addition to the two batches that had been previously disclosed — the White House said Saturday.

This brings the total number found in batches to three: one set in a Washington office Biden was using, one set in his garage and six pages in an adjacent room.

The discoveries have trickled out over the past week — beginning on Monday, followed by an acknowledgment on Thursday and then the announcement on Saturday — stoking Biden’s critics and causing alarm among his allies that his office didn’t have a handle on the problem.

Richard Sauber, White House lawyer discovered the new documents Thursday in a box first discovered Wednesday by the president’s lawyers.

The White House disclosed earlier this week, that Biden’s lawyers found a page with classified markings within a room next to his Delaware home.

“The President’s personal attorneys discovered one document with a classified marking consisting of one page in a room adjacent to the garage. At that point, the President’s personal attorneys stopped searching the immediate area where the document was found,” Sauber said.

He claimed that he reviewed the file on Thursday, and discovered five additional documents with markings for classification.

“Because I have a security clearance, I went to Wilmington Thursday evening to facilitate providing the document the President’s personal counsel found on Wednesday to the Justice Department,” Sauber said. “As I transferred it to the DOJ officials who were with me, five more pages with classification markings were found among the material. It totalled six pages. These pages were taken by me and the DOJ officials along with me instantly.”

He added, “The President’s lawyers have acted immediately and voluntarily to provide the Penn Biden documents to the Archives and the Wilmington documents to DOJ.”

Merrick Garland, Attorney General, announced Thursday that Robert Hur was appointed special counsel to review classified materials found in Biden’s home and in his Washington office. Sauber announced Saturday that the administration will refer specific questions to Hur’s office.

The White House earlier this week stated that Biden’s lawyers were being represented by them found He found a small number of classified documents that he had received during his time as vice president in a locked room at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, Washington, on Nov. 2. NBC News learned that one of the documents was marked Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Info, which is the highest classification level in the U.S government.

NBC News reported Wednesday that Biden aides had discovered an additional batch of classified records — which was confirmed by Garland on Thursday when he announced the special counsel.

Sauber stated in a previous statement that “We are confident that an extensive review will reveal that these documents were not inadvertently lost.”

Biden stated that his team fully cooperates with DOJ’s review, and that he hopes he can speak more about the topic “soon.”

Questions about the content of these documents have been refused to be answered by the president or his aides. “There is a process here. The Department of Justice is an independent agency. We respect that process,” White House press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Friday.

Biden’s personal lawyer, Bob Bauer, stated in a statement that his team had complied with the existing procedures for handling classified documents. The search for documents with classified markings must be stopped immediately and materials should be left where they were found.

“The President’s personal attorneys have attempted to balance the importance of public transparency where appropriate with the established norms and limitations necessary to protect the investigation’s integrity,” Bauer said. “These considerations demand that we avoid the public release any information relevant to the ongoing investigation.”

Biden supporters have been insisting that the case differs from ongoing criminal investigations into former President Donald Trump’s possession of classified documents at his Florida home since the discovery of the first set of documents this week.

Their hope is that voters will be able to see the difference. Biden gave the documents back once they were found, while Trump refused to comply with a subpoena. Trump withheld some of the documents, which triggered a Mar-a-Lago-based search warrant. Biden seemed unaware that classified documents had already been removed from him office. Trump, according to them, requested that the documents not be taken from his White House.

This article was originally published by NBCNews.com