A group of House investigators discovered a new route as they took time to speak with a former aide of President Joe Biden — with links to his son HUnter — who has started to be a prominent figurehead in the commander-in-chief’s classified documents scandal.
As the vice presidential assistant to Biden that went on to work as an official for the Pentagon, Kathy Chung took part in a transcribed interview on Tuesday with the Oversight Committee, according to an announcement by Chairman James Comer (R-KY).
Throughout a number of media reports, Chung has come to the forefront as a prime figure who is said to have overseen the movement of materials to where they ended up in the Penn Biden Center — a think tank in Washington, D.C. — in the wake of Biden leaving the vice-presidency back in early 2017, and has already been interviewed by federal investigators as part of the Justice Department’s investigation into the matter.
Comer stated that Chung provided “startling information that undermines the Biden White House’s narrative” regarding how the president handled the documents — a controversy that has ended up tailing Biden ever since it was made known back in January when it was public that Biden’s attorneys found roughly 10 documents labeled as classified while cleaning out Biden’s office within the center late last year.
“Today we learned that when Joe Biden left the vice presidency, boxes containing classified documents, vice presidential records, and other items were stored in three different locations around the Washington, D.C. area, including an office near the White House, an office in Chinatown, and eventually the Penn Biden Center,” expressed Comer.
“At some point, the boxes containing classified materials were transported by personal vehicles to an office location,” he went on. “The boxes were not in a ‘locked closet’ at the Penn Biden Center and remained accessible to Penn Biden employees as well as potentially others with access to the office space. We need to find out who had access to these documents.”
The chairman also made yet another reveal: “We also learned today that then-White House Counsel Dana Remus tasked Kathy Chung with retrieving these boxes from the Penn Biden Center as early as May 2022. This story does not begin in November 2022, as represented by President Biden’s attorney.”
The lead Democrat sitting on the oversight panel, one Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), also chose to release his own statement about the Chung interview.
“Ms. Chung has cooperated with Committee Republicans every step of the way — providing materials to investigators, voluntarily sitting for an interview, and working in good faith with Congress,” stated Raskin. “She repeatedly explained that she was unaware that there were alleged classified documents at the Penn Biden Center until November 2022, when the documents were first discovered by counsel for President Biden.”
