Biden Document Scandal Takes A Strange Turn

The National Archives and Records Administration missed a deadline set by the U.S. House Committee on accountability and oversight to provide materials for a more thorough investigation of the classified documents discovered in locations connected to President Joe Biden, the committee stated on Tuesday.

A representative for the committee told Axios that “the National Archives has not supplied the requested materials to the Committee at this time. Chairman Comer’s request remains in effect, and he expects to proceed with a transcribed interview with NARA’s general counsel shortly,” the statement reads.

The committee representative also told The Washington Examiner that Republican investigators had initially planned on having a federal agency interview that would be transcribed in order to get a timetable and details about how the sensitive information was handled.

Before the midterm elections last year, Biden’s personal attorneys discovered classified records related to his tenure as vice president in his private office at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank in Washington, D.C. As a result, Republican legislators established the committee earlier this month.

Since then, Biden’s counsel has discovered additional classified papers at his Wilmington home on three different occasions: five more were discovered in the study on January 12 in addition to the indeterminate number of documents discovered in his garage on December 20 and one more in his study on Jan. 11.

On January 10, the House Oversight Committee’s head, Rep. James Comer (R-KY), filed letters to the National Archives and the White House Legal Office requesting the information owing to “Biden’s refusal to surrender highly secret papers from his tenure as vice president.”

In order to acquire presidential papers, Comer said that the National Archives “instigated a public and unprecedented FBI search at Mar-a-Lago, the residence of former President Trump.”

According to Axios, he said, “Its contradictory handling of retrieving secret data held by former President Trump and President Biden raises issues about obvious bias at the agency.”

During an interview with Fox News on Friday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) questioned an important aspect of the Biden confidential document story.

McCarthy questioned Biden’s decision to have his attorneys move him from the office.

He said, “Yes, we are, and you’re forgetting one question: They claim that the lawyers located all these records. Who asked the lawyers to search there?”

“Someone else was aware of the papers’ existence at all times. What other reason would the lawyers even bother looking?” McCarthy enquired. “Who employs attorneys as movers?”

In response to the issue, Biden stated last week that he has “no remorse” about his deeds and that it “very simply irritates” him to be asked about the inquiry.

Biden said, “We are totally cooperating and looking forward to having this addressed swiftly. I believe you will see that there is nothing there. I don’t have regrets. That’s precisely what we are doing; I’m doing what the attorneys have been telling me to do. There isn’t anything there.”