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The University of Delaware’s trove of documents from President Biden‘s time as a senator is the Justice Department’s next likely target after investigators searched the president’s Rehoboth Beach, Delaware residence for classified material on Wednesday.
Former FBI agents and government transparency advocates say in order to conduct a thorough search, investigators must rifle through the papers Mr. Biden gifted to his alma mater after leaving the Senate to become vice president in 2009.
The University of Delaware is the only other known location where Mr. Biden’s papers are stored. In 2012, Mr. Biden donated papers from his 36-year career in the Senate, totaling 1,875 boxes and 415 gigabytes of electronic records, including committee reports, drafts of legislation and correspondence.
University officials have pledged not to make the documents public until two years after Mr. Biden retires from public life.
“If Biden brought classified documents to the Biden Penn Center [think tank] and his house, you can make an inference that there are possible classified records at the University of Delaware,” said Lewis Schiliro, a former head of the FBI‘s New York field office.
White House spokesperson Ian Sams said the president’s personal lawyers are working with the Justice Department to identify places where classified materials could have been stored, but declined to name specific locations.
A spokesperson for the Justice Department declined to comment, and a University of Delaware spokesperson has not responded to repeated requests for comment from The Washington Times.
Republicans called for the FBI to comb through the University of Delaware documents after investigators searched Mr. Biden’s Rehoboth Beach house.
“The FBI needs to search Joe Biden’s Senate records at the University of Delaware next,” tweeted Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican.
Agents did not uncover any classified materials during the search of the Rehoboth Beach residence, but did remove handwritten notes and materials from Mr. Biden’s time as vice president, his lawyer said.
