According to a Fox News report, Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the chair of the House Judiciary Committee, recently declared that his committee would look into President Biden’s “mishandling” of classified documents as well as the Justice Department’s investigation.
According to Fox News:
Only one day after Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to look into the claims, the investigation under the direction of Jordan, a Republican from Ohio, got under way. Robert Hur, a former US attorney, is that lawyer. The Justice Department turned the situation from a straightforward review to an investigation by a special counsel on Thursday, after a second cache of classified documents was found in the garage of Joe Biden’s residence in Wilmington, Delaware. The initial records were found within the Penn Biden Center’s Washington headquarters, a think tank.
Jordan and Rep. Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, informed Garland in a letter that they were monitoring the Justice Department’s responses to the former vice president Joe Biden’s improper handling of secret information. Included in this is the “apparently unauthorised possession of classified material at a Washington, D.C. private office and in the garage of his Wilmington, Delaware residence.”
In their letter, they said that “on January 12, 2023, you designated Robert Hur as Special Counsel to examine these concerns.” “The circumstances surrounding this nomination raise fundamental issues about oversight, which the Committee regularly reviews. Throughout the course of our inquiry, we count on your full cooperation.
Given that the Biden records were discovered late in the previous year, just before to the midterm elections, Jordan is curious as to whether or not there was an attempt to conceal their existence.
It is unknown when the Department first learned of the existence of these documents, and it is unclear if it purposefully withheld this information from the public on the eve of the 2022 elections, according to what Jordan said. It is also unknown whether the Department had any discussions with President Biden or his representatives on his improper handling of classified information.The Department’s engagements, if any, regarding President Biden’s improper handling of sensitive information are similarly unknown. When presented with similar circumstances, it appears that the Department is acting differently than in the past.