House Republicans demand search of Biden's Senate records in classified documents case
by Gabe Kaminsky, Investigative Reporter |
January 24, 2023 01:06 PM
EXCLUSIVE — House Republicans are calling for a classified documents search at a university storing President Joe Biden's records from his Senate tenure as the investigation into the president's potential mishandling of materials heats up.
Several watchdog groups said on Tuesday that DOJ special counsel Robert Hur should authorize a search at the University of Delaware for classified documents, which have been found at Biden's Wilmington, Delaware, home and at the Penn Biden Center think tank. Four Republican members of Congress told the Washington Examiner that an immediate search is warranted at the university, which houses almost 2,000 boxes and over 400 gigabytes of Biden's Senate records.
"As a matter of national security, the special counsel must search Joe Biden’s full Senate records, which have remained hidden under lock and key from the American public," said House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY). "The American people deserve to know the extent of Biden’s national security risk, especially after discovering Joe Biden has had possession of classified documents from his time in the Senate over a decade ago."
The Senate records at the University of Delaware are said to contain draft legislation, correspondence, and committee reports. In 2012, Biden donated the records to the school, which initially claimed they would be made "available to the public two years after Biden’s last day in elected public office."
However, hours before Biden announced his presidential bid, in April 2019, the university said the documents would stay under wraps until he “retires from public life."
"We need to go back to his history," Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) told the Washington Examiner. "I am completely stunned by the lack of discipline. If you are on the House side, as I've stated publicly, you cannot walk out of a room or a private briefing with anything. They have these things floating around."
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