The White House intends to work “in good faith” with Congress in investigating classified documents found in President Joe Biden’s home and former office, said a spokesman for the White House legal team. but also hit back at what the Republicans called a “political stunt” on the issue.
White House oversight and investigations spokesperson Ian Sams said in a call with reporters on Tuesday that he declined to provide any details about the timeline for finding the documents or the search process, and that the now special It is being investigated by public prosecutors.
However, Sams responded to growing interest from Congress, especially Republicans.
“They’re feigning anger,” he said, pointing to the new chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky. Records were found in the garage.
“My concern is that the special counsel was called in, but then hours later, there was still the president’s personal counsel … looking things up,” Comer said. “It’s essentially a crime scene, so to speak.”
But the Kentucky legislator told CNN that the documents were not his “best interest,” Sams noted.
And Comer has not suggested investigating former President Donald Trump on the same matter after classified documents were discovered in his Florida home last year.
Still, Sams said the White House will “scrutinize surveillance inquiries and respond in good faith.”
“But I expect members of Congress to show the same integrity,” he said.
The White House attorney’s office confirmed Monday that neither Biden nor the Secret Service were logging at the president’s Wilmington home.
The White House on Saturday said it found five more pages of classified documents at Biden’s home on Thursday.
In a statement, attorney Richard Sauber said a search of Biden’s private library uncovered a total of six pages of classified documents from the time Biden was vice president in the Obama administration. The White House previously said it only found one page there.
The latest disclosures come in addition to the discovery of documents discovered in Biden’s garage in December and in his former office at the Penn-Biden Center in Washington in November.
Sauber said Biden’s personal attorney, who didn’t have a security clearance, called off the search after finding the first page Wednesday night. Sauber did not explain why the White House waited two days to provide the latest accounting report.
The White House has already faced scrutiny by waiting more than two months to acknowledge the discovery of the first set of documents in Biden’s office. It faced additional questions later that week for not disclosing the December set of documents when it was revealed.
The House Judiciary Committee, now led by Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan, has already launched an investigation into the Biden documents as of last week.
Democrats have continued to highlight the differences between the Biden and Trump dossier cases, noting that Biden’s team quickly turned over the records while Trump’s team hid them for months.
