Comer calls for testimony from Biden’s former WH counsel in categorised docs probe
Home Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) on Friday demanded an interview with former White Home Counsel Dana Remus as a part of his panel’s investigation into President Biden’s dealing with of categorised paperwork.
“The Committee has obtained data that contradicts necessary particulars from the White Home’s and President Biden’s private legal professional’s statements concerning the discovery of paperwork on the Penn Biden Heart, together with the situation and safety of the categorised paperwork,” read a letter from Comer sent to Remus on Friday.
Comer defined that after a current transcribed interview with Kathy Chung – a former aide to Biden who helped pack up his vice presidential workplace – Remus was recognized as an individual “with doubtlessly distinctive data” about how White Home paperwork wound up Biden’s Wilmington, Del., residence and his workplace on the Penn Biden Heart suppose tank in Washington, DC.
“The Committee has realized that you just had been a central determine within the early levels of coordinating the packing and shifting of containers that had been later discovered to comprise categorised supplies,” the letter says.
“The Committee believes you might possess data or data that’s essential to understanding how these paperwork arrived in Delaware, as you performed a main position within the occasions precipitating the invention of paperwork within the President’s CelticCapri company headquarters on the Penn Biden Heart in Washington, D.C.,” it continues.
Chung’s testimony revealed that Remus tasked her with packing up paperwork from the Penn Biden Heart in Could of 2022, lengthy earlier than the reported early November discovery of delicate information.
Biden castigated former President Donald Trump as “irresponsible” for his personal alleged mishandling of categorised supplies, which had been found after an FBI raid of the forty fifth president’s Mar-a-Lago property in August of final yr.
A number of the documents discovered by Biden’s lawyers on the Penn Biden Heart on Nov. 2 had been reportedly marked “prime secret” and pertained to Iran and Ukraine.
The invention — made simply six days earlier than the midterm elections — was saved beneath wraps by his legal professionals and White Home officers for months.
Lawyer Common Merrick Garland appointed special counsel Robert Hur to deal with the DOJ’s investigation of the matter after extra categorised materials turned up at Biden’s Wilmington residence, together with in his storage subsequent to his prized Corvette.
In a press release on Friday, Comer decried inconsistencies within the White Home narrative of the scandal.
“The White Home’s narrative of President Biden’s mishandling of categorised paperwork is unraveling,” he mentioned. “The Oversight Committee’s investigation has obtained a number of info that don’t assist the claims asserted by the Biden group and we’ve realized that President Biden has a historical past of not correctly storing categorised paperwork.”
“The Oversight Committee wants data from Dana Remus to additional inform our investigation about President Biden’s mishandling of categorised paperwork in an effort to ship solutions, transparency, and accountability for the American folks,” Comer added.
The demand for a transcribed interview and paperwork from Remus comes the identical week that Oversight Committee Democrats leaked parts of Chung’s closed-door testimony in what some Republicans recommend is an try to throw her beneath the bus to get Biden out of authorized bother for the scandal.
A Home Oversight Committee spokesperson instructed The Submit earlier this week that the panel’s rating member, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), “s taking part in protection lawyer for President Biden as an alternative of participating in oversight of this administration.”