The University of Delaware may be the next target for federal authorities scouring President Joe Biden’s records for classified documents.
The FBI has searched Biden’s Rehoboth Beach home and Washington think tank as it works to track down intelligence and secret materials that the president may have had in his possession when he was out of office.
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But the White House would not say definitively this week whether Biden may have more materials in other locations or whether there would be additional searches of the president’s property. Neither Biden’s attorneys nor the Justice Department previously disclosed the FBI’s search of the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in the weeks after the president’s attorneys reported finding classified documents there on Nov. 2.
After leaving the Senate for the vice presidency in 2009, Biden handed his files from his decades in Congress to the University of Delaware. More “than 1,850 boxes of archival records from the President’s Senate career arrived at the Library on June 6, 2012,” where they are undergoing review, according to the university’s website.
Yet there has been no known search of Biden’s records at the university, despite classified files from the president’s time in the Senate surfacing among the documents found at his home.
White House spokesman Ian Sams reiterated that Biden’s attorneys are cooperating with the Justice Department in the search process but would not name any additional locations that could be a target.
Sams also declined to detail for reporters when the Justice Department made plans to search Biden’s properties.
Access to Biden’s University of Delaware archive is tightly controlled, though Biden and his aides retain supervised access if requested, according to the university.
The website states that no one from Biden’s team has visited the collection since November 2019 and that the collection is intact.
“No documents have been added or removed by any Biden designees during any visits,” it states.
Lewis Schiliro, who once headed the FBI’s New York bureau, said that Biden’s pattern of bringing classified documents into his home and to the think tank suggests there could be additional spillage uncovered among the trove.
“If Biden brought classified documents to the Biden Penn Center and his house, you can make an inference that there are possible classified records at the University of Delaware,” Schiliro, a former Delaware state secretary for Safety and Homeland Security, told the Washington Times.
The University of Delaware did not respond to a request for comment.
Republican lawmakers have urged investigators to extend their search to Biden’s papers at the university.
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“No stone should be left unturned and every single establishment that is associated with Joe Biden must be searched,” Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) told Fox News. “We need to know what classified material President Biden unlawfully removed during his time as senator and vice president, and exactly how many classified documents were removed.”
The White House has declined to confirm the number of classified files found in Biden’s records, though estimates place the total between 25 and 30.
