Usa news: President Joe Biden on Wednesday played down the controversy over classified documents seized by the Department of Justice, saying the items were “to the best of my knowledge…from 1974, stray papers.”

“There may be something else. I don’t know,” Biden told PBS NewsHour’s Judy Woodruff.

The White House revealed in January that the president’s lawyers found a “small number” of classified documents in a a private office following his tenure as vice president. On Jan. 20, the FBI retrieved other documents after a day-long search of his Wilmington, Delaware home.

Biden has previously said he was surprised to learn the files from his past service in the White House and Congress contained classified material.
“As they packed up my offices to move them, they didn’t do the kind of job that should have been done to go thoroughly through every single piece of literature there,” Biden told Woodruff.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed a special counsel to examine Biden’s handling of classified documents. In addition, the Republican-led House Committee on Oversight and Accountability launched its own investigation.