据美联社1日报道，美国联邦调查局（FBI）搜查了总统拜登在特拉华州的一处度假屋。


FBI搜查拜登别墅 图源：美联社

拜登的律师鲍勃·鲍尔在一份声明中说，FBI此次搜查耗时三个半小时，“没有发现印有机密标记的文件”，但带走了拜登任副总统期间一些材料和手写笔记。 6park.com
On Wednesday, Biden's personal attorney Bob Bauer said FBI agents authorized by the Department of Justice spent three and a half hours searching the president's beach home and that "no documents with classified markings were found." 6park.com
据美联社报道，拜登手写笔记成为机密文件调查的一部分。在拜登数十年的职业生涯中，一直保持着记笔记的习惯。拜登的律师没有说明这些笔记是否是机密，只表示这些笔记已被带走。 6park.com
US President Joe Biden is a man who writes down his thoughts. And some of those handwritten musings over his decades of public service are now a part of a special counsel's investigation into the handling of classified documents. 6park.com
检察官正在确认拜登担任参议员和副总统期间的机密信息是如何进入他家及以前的办公室的，以及他是具有犯罪意图还是无意为之。检察官还须确定这些笔记是否应被视为私人物品。如是，或将归还拜登。 6park.com
The special counsel is working to determine how classified information from Biden's time as senator and vice president came to wind up in his home and former office — and whether any mishandling involved criminal intent or was unintentional. But they'll also have to determine whether the notes they took are considered personal and therefore belong to Biden, and would then likely be returned to him. 6park.com
拜登的律师没有说这些笔记是否被视为机密，只是说它们被删除了。但在他36年的参议院生涯和8年的副总统生涯中，拜登对美国历史上许多高度敏感的时刻都有切身体会，包括2001年9月11日的恐怖袭击、2011年的本·拉登之死以及乌克兰的政治动荡。 6park.com
Biden's attorneys did not say whether the notes were considered to be classified, only that they were removed. But over his 36 years in the Senate and eight as vice president, Biden had a front-row seat to a lot of highly sensitive moments in US history, including the Sept 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the 2011 death of Osama bin Laden and unfolding political turmoil in Ukraine. 6park.com
据称，这是一次“计划中的搜查，得到了白宫方面的配合”。



近期，拜登的“密件门”风波持续发酵。去年11月至今年1月中旬，拜登律师团队先后从拜登在首都华盛顿使用过的一间办公室和他在威尔明顿的住宅发现10多份保密文件，随即通知司法部。FBI今年1月搜查拜登在威尔明顿的住宅时又发现6份密件。 6park.com
在拜登处搜查的一些文件被标记为“最高机密”，还有一些文件带有“SCI”标记，代表“敏感信息”，指的是从美国情报来源收集的极其敏感的材料。 6park.com
Some of Biden's documents were marked "top secret", which is the highest level of classification. Some of those documents had an "SCI" designation, which stands for "sensitive compartmented information" and refers to extremely sensitive material gleaned from US intelligence sources. 6park.com
路透社分析，FBI这次最新搜查似乎意味着对拜登调查的扩大。 6park.com
The morning search by FBI agents appeared to represent an expansion of the probe into Biden's handling of classified documents. 6park.com
路透社还称，对拜登的调查让民主党人失去了用以对付特朗普的“政治武器”。去年8月，FBI突击搜查特朗普位于佛罗里达州的私宅海湖庄园，发现逾百份密件，其中不少为“绝密”级文件。 6park.com
It has stripped him and fellow Democrats of a political weapon to use against former US president Donald Trump, who also had classified documents found at his home. 6park.com
现阶段，美国司法部指派两名特别检察官分别调查特朗普和拜登所涉“密件私留”风波。美国《总统档案法》规定，总统和副总统任内所有文件须留存，并在卸任时交由国家档案和记录管理局管理。