joe bidens family home was raided by fbi investigators for 13 hours during which classified documents were discovered which could become a political and possible legal liability for him as he prepares to launch a reelection bid in 2024the discovery came as part of a justice department search conducted on friday after several batches of secret papers from bidens time as vice president were found at a former washington office space and the presidents home in delawarethe issue which first emerged in a cbs news report on january 9 caught the white house badly off guard denting bidens brand as a return to competency and honesty after the scandalfilled trump yearsmore troubles congressional republicans are preparing to investigate attorney general merrick garland has appointed a special counsel in the biden case following a similar step he took in donald trumps case in novemberrelief for trump the appointment of a special counsel to oversee the justice department investigation into his handling of the vice presidential documents is widely seen as weakening the ongoing probe by a different special counsel into trumps casewill there be arrests its unclear if anyone might face criminal charges or if prosecutors can establish that anyone willfully broke the law and in any event the justice department has long held that a sitting president cannot be indictedwhats so secret about ithillary clintons presidential dreams were undermined by her use of a private email server that included classified information trump has risked criminal charges by refusing to return topsecret records to the government after leaving the white housewhat are classified documents us president harry truman created the existing classification system top secret secret and confidential in 1951 classified documents are usually declassified after 25 years barring some records of high value