Another search of Biden’s house shocked
2023.01.24 12:51
Another search of Biden’s house shocked
By Tiffany Smith
Budrigannews.com – On Monday, the White House announced that the Justice Department conducted a search of President Joe Biden’s residence on Friday in response to a “voluntary, proactive offer” made by his personal lawyers to the department.
The White House Counsel’s Office also said that it was looking into recent records requests from the House Oversight Committee, which is led by Republicans. It also said that it would respect legislative oversight. However, it said that its cooperation might be limited because of executive privilege and an ongoing investigation by the Department of Justice.
A statement issued on Saturday night by the president’s attorney stated that six additional items, including documents bearing classification markings, had been discovered during the department’s latest search of Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware. It was the most recent in a series of discoveries of classified documents at the University of Pennsylvania’s temporary office and Biden’s Wilmington residence.
According to Biden’s attorney, Bob Bauer, some of the most recent classified documents and “surrounding materials” date from Biden’s time in the United States Senate, where he represented Delaware from 1973 to 2009. Other documents, according to Bauer, were from when he was vice president under President Obama from 2009 to 2017.
White House spokesperson Ian Sams stated, “This was a voluntary, proactive offer by the president’s personal lawyers to DOJ to have access to the home.”
Sams declined to provide additional details regarding the specific contents of the Wilmington house-taken materials. The White House stated that Biden had been kept informed throughout the process.
Biden has insisted that the previous discovery of classified material at his home and former office would eventually be deemed insignificant, but the search raises the political and legal stakes for him.
In addition, Sams stated that the White House counsel had written a letter to the chairman of the Republican-controlled House of Representatives Oversight Committee, James Comer, in response to Comer’s inquiries regarding the classified documents that were discovered at the residence and office of Democrat Joe Biden.
This month, a letter was sent by Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, asking for information like visitor logs, documents that had been turned over to the Justice Department, and a list of people who had access to Biden’s campus office in Philadelphia.
“Accommodate legitimate oversight interests within the Committee’s jurisdiction while also respecting the separation of powers and the constitutional and statutory obligations of the Executive Branch” was the White House’s stated goal.
The White House’s suggestion that it needed to determine whether the requests were related to legitimate oversight, according to a House committee spokesperson, undermines Biden’s public pledge of transparency.
According to the spokesperson, “This is not ‘legitimate’ transparency from President Biden, who once claimed he would have the most transparent administration in history.”
