A White House official attacked House GOP for engaging in “political stunts” over the classified documents found in President Biden’s home and former office, declining to say whether it will cooperate with congressional investigations into the issue.
to answer multiple questions about the discovery of the Biden documents, their chain of custody before they were found and who might have had access to them.
According to White House statements, a “small” number of documents with classified markings – reported to have been about ten briefs on foreign countries – were first discovered on Nov. 2 in a locked closet by private attorneys for the president who were clearing out Biden’s former office on Capitol Hill at the Penn Biden Center, a University of Pennsylvania think tank.
“You don’t need $1,000-an-hour lawyers to move out of an office,” said Paul Kamenar, a legal counsel with the National Legal and Policy Center, which has raised questions about $22 million in anonymous Chinese donations to the University of Pennsylvania. Those donations were made after Biden joined the university as a professor of “presidential practice” in 2018.answer key questions
FILE - Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., talks to reporters as he walks to the House chamber, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. In a letter, Sunday, Jan. 15, to the White House, Comer, who chairs the House Oversight Committee, says he wants to see the documents and communications related to searches that have uncovered classified documents at President Joe Biden's home and former office as well as visitor logs of the president's Wilmington, Delaware, home from Jan.
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