The FBI on Wednesday did not find any classified documents during a search of US President Joe Biden's home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, as part of the Department of Justice's probe into his handling of sensitive government files.
“No documents with classified markings were found” after the three-hour search, a statement from the President's personal lawyer Bob Bauer said.
“Some materials and handwritten notes that appear to relate to his time as vice president” were taken for further review, he added.
Wednesday's search makes the third known FBI probe of a Biden property.
News organisations citing law enforcement officials on Tuesday said the FBI had searched his former Washington office in November. It is not known if classified documents were found by authorities at that time.
The President's Wilmington, Delaware, home was searched by the FBI earlier in January and law enforcement found additional classified records.
The search on Wednesday was conducted with Mr Biden's “full support and co-operation”, Mr Bauer said in an earlier statement.
“Under DOJ's standard procedures, in the interests of operational security and integrity, it sought to do this work without advance public notice and we agreed to co-operate,” Mr Bauer said in a statement.
A special counsel was appointed in January to investigate Mr Biden's handling of classified documents after his time as vice president under President Barack Obama and as a US senator.
Mr Biden's lawyers assert that the “documents were inadvertently misplaced” and it was a “mistake”.
The FBI's unprecedented searches of the homes of a current president came after Mr Biden's teams previously found classified records in his Wilmington home and at the Penn Biden Centre of the University of Pennsylvania in Washington.
