Special counsel appointment complicates House GOP’s Biden document investigations
by Sarah Westwood, Investigative Reporter |
January 14, 2023 07:00 AM
House Republicans are practically salivating at the chance to dig into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents with their newly established oversight authority.
But their calls for the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel for the case, which Attorney General Merrick Garland did on Thursday, could result in less cooperation from government investigators.
That prospect has so far not slowed down GOP lawmakers, who are probing the discovery of sensitive documents at Biden's private office in Washington, D.C., and home in Wilmington, Delaware. The revelations drew immediate comparisons to former President Donald Trump's own handling of records, which led the FBI to raid his Mar-a-Lago residence last year.
At least two GOP-led House committees are expected to investigate various aspects of the Biden documents case, which has become a top priority for Republicans even after they spent months carefully choreographing the rollout of an investigative agenda that did not account for the new revelations.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) initiated an investigation this week into the substance of the case: who searched for Biden’s classified documents, where they looked, and what kind of information the material contained.
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