With the knowledge and cooperation of the Biden team, FBI agents searched for classified documents at the University of Delaware, President Biden’s alma mater where he taught as an adjunct professor while he was a United States Senator and to which Biden donated his papers in 2011, the Associated Press reports.
The papers, collected during Biden’s Senate career that spanned four decades, are not subject to the same rules as those covered under the Presidential Records Act, so it was within Biden’s right to give them to his alma mater. However, laws regarding classified documents would still apply, a violation greatly mitigated by Biden’s cooperation with the search, unlike his predecessor.