Washington-January 12, 2023

After secret documents were found at a Research Center in Washington

where US President Joe Biden had an office, the White House had previously confirmed that a second package of secret documents was found in the garage of Joe Biden's private home in Wilmington, Delaware, dating back to his tenure as vice president during the era of Barack Obama.

This is an embarrassment for the White House at a time when the authorities are investigating a much larger scandal related to the misuse of classified documents by former President Donald Trump.

US House of Representatives Republican speaker Kevin McCarthy on Thursday urged Congress to investigate President Joe Biden،

"Congress should investigate this," McCarthy said, referring to the Justice Department's investigation of former President Donald Trump for keeping more than a hundred classified documents at his home in Palm Beach, Florida.

In the first response from the US President, Biden stressed his "full cooperation" with the judiciary in this file. Biden told reporters: "I take the issue of classified files very seriously. We are fully cooperating with the Ministry of Justice".

On Wednesday, the White House was asked urgent questions about an embarrassing case related to the finding of classified documents dating back to the period when President Joe Biden was vice president under Barack Obama (2009-2017).

The administration of the Democratic president confirmed yesterday that a "small number of classified documents" were found in a "locked locker" at the Ben Biden Research Center, linked to the University of Pennsylvania, where Biden previously had an office, and today the lawyers who conducted the searches said that a second package of documents was found in the garage of his home in Wilmington.

With the new developments, the case is expected to continue to cause a stir and may turn out to impede an investigation into a large number of documents that Donald Trump kept at his residence in Florida, after leaving the White House in 2021.

Analysts believe that this case may introduce politically sensitive considerations to the investigation related to Trump, who immediately called for the Democratic president to submit to the investigation himself. Trump asked: "When will the FBI take over Joe Biden's many headquarters, and even the White House?"".

Responding to journalists ' questions about the documents, the White House confirmed that mistakes were made, but the administration immediately corrected them.

Since the first documents were found in late November, lawyers have handed them over to the National Archives, which is responsible for keeping this type of file.

The Biden administration said that lawyers also went to look for documents that may have been lost elsewhere, which explains the disclosure of other documents on Wednesday that may therefore not be the last.

To refute accusations of political interference, Attorney General Merrick Garland assigned the case to a Chicago prosecutor appointed under Trump.

White House spokeswoman Karen Jean-Pierre touched on the subject of the investigation to justify her refusal to respond to journalists ' questions in this regard on Wednesday. But that wasn't enough to deter them from asking for more.

"We will be limited about what can be said here,"Jean-Pierre said.

After being asked questions about the matter several times, she recalled Biden's cautious statement on Tuesday in which he stressed that he was unaware of the content of the documents.

Speaking on the sidelines of a US - Canada - Mexico summit in Mexico City, Biden told reporters: "I was informed of what was found and was surprised to learn that documents related to the government were transferred to that office. But I don't know what those documents contain,"he said.

"People know that I take documents and information classified as confidential very seriously,"he added.