January 17, 2023 12:36pm EST
Biden classified docs scandal: Watchdog files ethics complaint over White House Counsel's Office involvement
'The American public will not tolerate a two-tiered system of justice,' PPT director Mike Chamberlain told Fox News Digital
By Houston Keene | Fox News
FIRST ON FOX: A government watchdog filed a federal complaint over the involvement of the White House Counsel’s office in President Biden’s growing classified documents scandal.
Fox News Digital has learned that government watchdog Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) filed their complaint with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics on Tuesday.
"The American public will not tolerate a two-tiered system of justice – with well-connected insiders subject to a lower standard of scrutiny than the normal citizen," PPT director Mike Chamberlain said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
"President Biden promised the most ethical and transparent administration in history," Chamberlain said. "If the White House compounded a scandal involving possible mishandling of classified documents by improperly using taxpayer resources for his personal benefit and putting White House attorneys in positions that created conflicts of interest, we could be witnessing a serious betrayal of the public’s already-plummeting trust."
"It also creates the spectre of possible obstruction of a congressional investigation, depending on the legal basis for the intervention and any future privileges claimed by the White House on this escalating scandal," he added.
In the complaint, which was first obtained by Fox News Digital, PPT alleged that "taxpayer resources may have been inappropriately used by senior White House lawyers, including Special Counsel to the President Richard Sauber, to personally benefit Joe Biden."
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