{"id":1803978,"date":"2023-01-12T15:19:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T20:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1803978"},"modified":"2023-01-12T15:24:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T20:24:00","slug":"federal-investigators-interview-multiple-aides-in-obama-admin-over-biden-classified-doc-scandal-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-investigators-interview-multiple-aides-in-obama-admin-over-biden-classified-doc-scandal-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Investigators Interview Multiple Aides In Obama Admin Over Biden Classified Doc Scandal: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffederal-investigators-interview-multiple-aides-in-obama-admin-over-biden-classified-doc-scandal-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1803978&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Federal law enforcement officials have reportedly interviewed numerous aides who worked for then-Vice President Joe Biden during the final weeks of the Obama administration over how classified materials were handled that ended up at a Biden think tank and at Biden\u2019s home in Delaware.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the appointment of former U.S. Attorney Robert Hur \u2014 who served during the Trump administration \u2014 to serve as special counsel in the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn January 5th, 2023, [U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois John] Lausch briefed me on the results of his initial investigation and advised me that further investigation by a special counsel was warranted,\u201d Garland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/merrick-garland-appoints-special-counsel-to-investigate-biden-classified-document-scandal\"><\/a>. \u201cBased on Mr. Lausch\u2019s initial investigation, I concluded that, under the special counsel regulations, it was in the public interest to appoint a special counsel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/white-house\/multiple-biden-aides-interviewed-federal-law-enforcement-classified-do-rcna65526\">reported<\/a> Federal authorities have made contact with Kathy Chung as one of the former Biden aides. She allegedly helped Biden to pack up his vice president office at the close of the Obama administration. According to the report, Chung is currently deputy director of protocol at Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people who were boxing [up the vice presidential office] had no idea that there was anything in there that shouldn\u2019t leave the White House,\u201d According to a source, NBC News was informed by the investigation. \u201cThere was no decision made to take certain documents that should have been presidential records or classified.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The initial investigation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/review-of-biden-spaces-turns-up-second-batch-of-classified-docs-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Begin<\/a> sometime after Biden\u2019s personal attorney found 10 classified documents stashed in an envelope in the president\u2019s private office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington. The envelope was discovered by the attorney November 2, but the discovery was only made public earlier in the week. Richard Sauber, special counsel for the president, stated Monday that the documents were immediately handed to the National Archives to be stored.<\/p>\n<p>Sauber said in a subsequent statement that a review of Biden\u2019s known offices, quarters, and other spaces turned up a second set of classified documents at the president\u2019s home in Wilmington, Delaware, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/12\/us\/biden-documents.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Garland signed an order stating that Hur would investigate \u201cthe possible unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or other records discovered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe document authorizes him to investigate whether any person or entity violated the law in connection with this matter,\u201d Garland spoke at the press conference. \u201cThe special counsel will not be subject to the day-to-day supervision of any official of the department, but he must comply with the regulations, procedures and policies of the department.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal law enforcement officials have reportedly interviewed numerous aides who worked for then-Vice President Joe Biden during the final weeks of the Obama administration over how classified materials were handled that ended up at a Biden think tank and at Biden\u2019s home in Delaware. 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