January 5 — Lausch briefed Garland on his initial findings and suggested the need for a special counsel.
January 9 — The White House counsel’s office has publicly confirmed for the first time that classified documents were found at the Biden Center in Pennsylvania after news organizations reported the development.
January 11 — Biden’s personal lawyers searched the president’s homes in Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach for more records. They found a potential record marked as classified in a room near the garage. They left it where they found it and paused the search. They left Wilmington for Rehoboth and searched Biden’s home. Unable to find any records in Rehoboth, the lawyers returned to Washington.
January 11 — News organizations reported that other classified documents were found at another location at the Biden Center in Pennsylvania.
January 12 — The White House Counsel’s Office confirmed that a “small number” of additional classified documents are located at two locations in Biden’s Wilmington home, mostly in the garage. They said “a one-page document” was found in a room near the garage.
January 12 — Biden’s attorneys informed Rausch of what they found in a room off the garage of their Wilmington home and began the process of arranging it to be turned over to the Justice Department. White House counsel Richard Sauber, who has security clearance, traveled to Wilmington to assist in the transfer of the documents. While transferring them, five additional pages marked as confidential were discovered.
January 12 — Garland announces Robert Hur as special counsel investigating the matter.
January 14 — The White House Counsel’s Office publicly disclosed that another five pages of classified material had been found in Wilmington.
