Biden’s executive assistant, who helped pack up his vice president’s office, and other aides have been interviewed.
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Will Biden’s aide take the blame? The executive assistant, who packed up his vice president’s office and now works for the Pentagon, is among multiple aides who have been interviewed by the feds in the investigation of classified documents.
- Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Robert Hur special counsel Thursday
- The White House says it has been ‘transparent’ and is cooperating
- Kathy Chung helped pack up the vice president’s office, NBC reported
- ‘Multiple helpers’ have been interviewed about how classified documents left wh
- The White House said today that a “small number” of documents were found in the Wilmington home.
The former executive aide to President Biden from when he was vice president is among “multiple” aides who have already been interviewed by police in an investigation into how classified documents ended up at his home and office.
Kathy Chung, Biden’s former administrative assistant in the vice president’s office in 2016, spoke with authorities in the ongoing investigation, which as of Thursday is being overseen by new special counsel Robert Hur.
She is among the “multiple helpers” who have already been interviewed, NBC reported.
News of the progress in the investigation comes shortly after AG Merrick Garland announced it was naming Hur special prosecutor, after footage from a Biden presidential campaign ad showed him backing his vintage Corvette toward the garage where he said he material marked as classified was found.
Chung has been identified as someone who helped package material in the last few days that Biden was in office. It would be years before a “small number” of documents marked classified were discovered in Biden’s Wilmington home, after some were found in Penn Biden’s office he maintained in Washington.
Former executive assistant to President Biden, Kathy Chung, is among those already interviewed in the investigation of classified documents found at her home and an office she used.
‘The people who were boxing [up the vice presidential office] I had no idea there was something in there that shouldn’t be leaving the White House,” a source told the network. “The decision was not made to take certain documents that should have been presidential or classified records.”
The source said the people law enforcement wanted to speak to “quickly” complied.
That came after Garland, in remarks Thursday, congratulated Northern Illinois US Attorney John Lausch, who recommended that he appoint special counsel for launching the investigation.
The White House has refused to release visitor logs to Biden’s lakefront home in Wilmington, Delaware (pictured), where he spends most of his weekends, and conducted most of the campaign 2020 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
During Thursday’s briefing, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre evaded any kind of commitment to release Delaware-based visitor logs.
Garland said that “Lausch and his team of prosecutors and agents have conducted this initial investigation with professionalism and speed” and that he was “appreciative” of them.
Richard Sauber, special counsel to the president, said the files were immediately turned over to the National Archives and the Justice Department was notified.
Biden told reporters at the White House that he was “fully and completely cooperating” with a Justice Department investigation into how and why classified information and government records were improperly stored.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre defended the “transparency” of the White House’s conduct in the matter, though it was only Thursday that Garland revealed that additional documents had been discovered on December 20, 2022. .
Biden and the White House have not said how the documents got to Biden’s home and office. Jean-Pierre said Biden doesn’t know how they got there or what the documents contain.
Special counsel Robert Hur will lead the investigation.
Chung is a behind-the-scenes operative who previously worked for Democratic senators and is now deputy director of protocol for Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
It made the news on Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop after she emailed his firm Rosemont Seneca Partners with the phone numbers of the Clintons, senators and most of Obama’s cabinet.