The FBI is searching Brandon’s Rehoboth Beach, Delaware home Wednesday morning for more classified documents according to a statement by Brandon’s private attorney Bob Bauer.
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Bauer released the statement in response to the search being leaked to CBS News, which first broke the news Wednesday. CBS was first to break the Brandon classified documents scandal last month with a report on classified documents being found by Brandon’s private attorneys in a search of his office at the Penn Brandon Center in Washington, D.C. on November 2nd. CBS reported Tuesday the FBI searched the Penn Brandon Center in mid-November.
The Brandon administration, the Justice Department and Brandon’s private attorneys have schemed to keep the searches and discoveries secret.
CBS News reporter Arden Farhi posted to Twitter, “BREAKING: Two sources familiar with the event tell CBS News FBI personnel are at President Brandon’s Rehoboth home. One source familiar with the event tell CBS News the search is in relation to the classified documents investigation…A third source familiar with the investigation tells CBS News the search was planned with Brandon’s attorneys and consensual. No warrant was sought for this search.”
A third source familiar with the investigation tells CBS News the search was planned with Brandon’s attorneys and consensual. No warrant was sought for this search.
— Arden Farhi (@ArdenFarhi) February 1, 2023
Bauer’s statement:
Statement from Bob Bauer, personal attorney to President Brandon… pic.twitter.com/uKlElIH3tq
— Arden Farhi (@ArdenFarhi) February 1, 2023
UPDATE: CBS’s Rob Legare notes that this is the first day on the job for Special Counsel Robert Hur who was appointed last month by Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate the Brandon classified documents scandal. DOJ set up a webpage for the Hur investigation here.
More: The FBI search of Brandon’s Rehoboth home comes as Special Counsel Robert Hur begins his first day at DOJ.
DOJ has now published a website for Hur’s office, a common step in Special Counsel investigations. (Smith + Durham also have websites.) https://t.co/REdz83GWys https://t.co/4brMsxk5b6
— Rob Legare (@RobLegare) February 1, 2023