China News Service, January 16th, a comprehensive report, James Comer, chairman of the Oversight and Accountability Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives and a Republican, asked the White House on the 15th local time to provide all relevant information, including visitor records to Biden’s residence. The Biden residence where the classified documents are kept is called a "crime scene."
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In a letter to White House Chief of Staff Kline on the 15th, Comer criticized Biden's lawyers for the search as the Justice Department began its investigation, saying that Biden's "mishandling of classified documents raised questions about whether he endangered our national security." The problem."
"My concern is that hours after the special counsel was appointed, the president's personal lawyers are still running around the president's residence, looking for things, and they don't have security clearance. I mean, so to speak, in the After the special counsel was appointed, it was basically a crime scene," Comer said on CNN's "State of the Union."
The Republican also said: "If the CBS investigative reporting had not somehow leaked the classified documents, we would never have known about the existence of these classified documents." It is not transparent. We only hope that former President Trump and current President Biden will be treated equally on the issue of classified documents.” Currently, two special prosecutors of the US Department of Justice are investigating the current and former The president launched an investigation.
Comer also asked the White House to provide all relevant information, including visitor records to Biden's residence, by the end of the month.
"So you know, we have a lot of questions for the National Archives and Records Administration. We have a lot of questions for the Justice Department, and hopefully we'll get some answers soon."
The White House said on the 14th that another five pages of confidential documents were found at Biden's home in Delaware.
On the same day, a special prosecutor was appointed to examine the matter.
Previously, Biden had discovered some classified documents at a former private office in Washington and his residence in Wilmington, Delaware.
The discovery of classified documents from Biden's time as vice president in unauthorized locations also presents Democrats with a political conundrum.
They have been attacking former President Trump for months for his handling of classified documents, and the FBI raided Trump's private residence, Mar-a-Lago.
The FBI executed a search warrant on Mar-a-Lago in August 2022, and among the seized items were more than 11,000 government documents and photos, more than 100 of which were marked as classified.
In order to ease the embarrassment, Democratic Representative Schiff defended Biden and said that he should ensure that Trump and Biden handled the documents differently. He emphasized that Biden is fully cooperating with law enforcement investigations.
"Biden's approach is very different because these documents appear to have been inadvertently placed in these places," Schiff said.
"He didn't try to keep them, he didn't try to hide them, he didn't try to obstruct the Justice Department's investigation."