House Oversight Chairman James Comer is once again taking aim at President Joe Biden’s retention of classified documents, demanding a transcribed interview and documents from former White House Counsel Dana Remus, the committee announced Friday.
“The Committee has learned that you were a central figure in the early stages of coordinating the packing and moving of boxes that were later found to contain classified materials,” Comer wrote in a letter to Remus. “The President’s haphazard handling of classified materials raises many additional questions about the repercussions of these actions, including possible threats to national security.”
Comer said he wants more details about why Remus tasked Kathy Chung, Biden’s former executive assistant, with packing up Biden’s office at the Penn Biden Center, even though Chung was no longer working as Biden’s assistant. Remus did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The letter included snippets of Chung’s testimony, in which she told the committee that when she packed 13 boxes for Biden in June 2022, the boxes were not put in a locked closet.
In an earlier statement, Richard Sauber, special counsel to President Biden said the classified documents “were discovered when the president’s personal attorneys were packing files housed in a locked closet to prepare to vacate office space at the Penn Biden Center,” in November 2022.
According to a source familiar with Chung’s testimony, Chung was read Sauber’s statement during her transcribed interview and she said she had no reason to believe that statement was untrue.
It is not clear whether those files were part of the documents Chung packed in June or whether Biden’s personal attorneys discovered additional files in November.
The White House declined to comment, citing the ongoing special counsel…
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