b'For President Joe Biden, it was an inconvenient discovery \\u2014 and the potential source of considerable future political, if not legal heartburn. The Justice Department is investigating how and why classified documents from Biden\\u2019s time as veep made their way from the White House to a think tank, the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, where he used to have an office.\\n\\nCBS\\u2019 Adriana Diaz, Andres Triay and Arden Farhi scooped the news last night, and White House special counsel Richard Sauber confirmed the November discovery and subsequent federal probe, noting in a statement that Biden\\u2019s \\u201cpersonal attorneys have cooperated with the Archives and the Department of Justice in a process to ensure that any Obama-Biden Administration records are appropriately in the possession of the Archives.\\u201d\\n\\nNedless to say, newly empowered Republicans see the circumstances here as a hell of a lot more than inconvenient \\u2014 seizing on superficial similarities between this discovery and the August search and seizure of more than 100 classified documents from President Donald Trump\\u2019s home in Florida.'