Jim Jordan’s (R-Ohio) first investigation as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee will examine President Biden’s “mishandling” of classified documents and the Justice Department’s investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We are\u00a0conducting oversight\u00a0of the Justice Department\u2019s actions with respect to former Vice President Biden\u2019s mishandling of classified documents, including the apparently unauthorized possession of classified material at a Washington, D.C., private office and in the garage of his Wilmington, Delaware, residence,” Jordan and Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., wrote in a letter sent Friday to Garland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“On January 12, 2023, you appointed Robert Hur as Special Counsel to investigate these matters,” they wrote. “The circumstances of this appointment raise fundamental oversight questions that the Committee routinely examines. We expect your complete cooperation with our inquiry.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“It is unclear when the Department first came to learn about the existence of these documents, and whether it actively concealed this information from the public on the eve of the 2022 elections,” Jordan wrote. “It is also unclear what interactions, if any, the Department had with President Biden or his representatives about his mishandling of classified material. The Department\u2019s actions here appear to depart from how it acted in similar circumstances.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“In fact, on August 8, 2022, despite the publicly available evidence of President Trump\u2019s voluntary cooperation, you personally approved the decision to seek a warrant for excessive and unprecedented access to his private residence. On August 15, 2022, Committee Republicans wrote to you and FBI Director Christopher Wray requesting documents and information related to the FBI\u2019s raid of President Trump\u2019s residence,” the letter said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rep. Jordan’s investigation comes one day after Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to examine the matter, former U.S. attorney Robert Hur. The DOJ escalated the matter to a special counsel investigation from a mere review after a second\u00a0stash of classified documents\u00a0was found inside the garage of Biden’s Delaware home. The\u00a0first batch of documents were found\u00a0inside the D.C., offices of the Penn Biden Center think tank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jim Jordan’s (R-Ohio) first investigation as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee will examine President Biden’s “mishandling” of classified documents and the Justice Department’s investigation. “We are\u00a0conducting oversight\u00a0of the Justice Department\u2019s actions with respect to former Vice President Biden\u2019s mishandling of classified documents, including the apparently unauthorized possession of classified material at a Washington, D.C., […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[171,407,377],"class_list":["post-1795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-biden-investigation","tag-house-judiciary-committee","tag-jim-jordan"],"yoast_head":"\n