Will Biden’s aide take the wrap? The executive assistant – who cleaned up his VP office and now works for the Pentagon – is among several aides questioned by the FBI as part of an investigation into classified documents
- AG Merrick Garland appointed Robert Hur as a special counsel on Thursday
- The White House says it has been “transparent” and is cooperating
- Kathy Chung helped pack VP’s office, NBC reported
- “Several helpers” were questioned about how classified documents left WH
- The White House said today that a “small number” of documents were found at Wilmington’s home
President Biden’s former executive assistant when he was vice president is among “several” aides who have already been questioned by law enforcement to investigate how classified documents ended up in his home and office.
Kathy Chung, Biden’s former administrative assistant in the vice president’s office in 2016, has spoken to authorities in the ongoing investigation — which will be overseen by new special counsel Robert Hur beginning Thursday.
She is among “several aides” who have already been interviewed, NBC reported.
News of the progress of the investigation comes shortly after AG Merrick Garland announced he will appoint Hur special counsel after footage from a Biden campaign ad showed him backing his classic Corvette into the garage, where he said when classified material found.
Chung is said to have helped wrap up materials over the past few days while Biden was in office. It would be years before it was discovered that a “small number” of documents marked as classified were discovered at Biden’s Wilmington home, after some were found in the Penn Biden office he maintained in Washington.
Former Executive Assistant to President Biden Kathy Chung is among those previously questioned in the investigation of classified documents found at his home and an office he uses
‘The people who boxed [up the vice presidential office] had no idea there was anything in there that wasn’t supposed to leave the White House,” a source told the network. “No decision was made to take any specific documents that were to be classified as Presidential records or classified.”
The source said people law enforcement wanted to speak to “quickly” have complied.
This comes after Garland made a remark on Thursday congratulating US Attorney John Lausch on recommending that a special counsel be appointed to begin the investigation.
The White House has declined to release visitor logs from Biden’s lakefront home in Wilmington, Delaware (pictured), where he spends most weekends — and has conducted most of the 2020 campaign due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
During Thursday’s briefing, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre dodged any obligation to release the Delaware visitor logs
Garland said “Lausch and his team of prosecutors and agents conducted this initial investigation with professionalism and speed” and he was “grateful” to them.
Richard Sauber, the president’s special counsel, said the files were immediately turned over to the National Archives and the Justice Department notified.
Biden told reporters at the White House he was “fully 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 on the matter, though Garland only revealed on Thursday that additional documents had been discovered on Dec. 20, 2022.
Biden and the White House have not said how the documents got to Biden’s home and office. Jean-Pierre said Biden didn’t know how they got there or what the contents of the documents were.
Chung is a behind-the-scenes agent who previously worked for Democratic senators and is now Assistant Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s Protocol Directorate.
She appeared in the news on Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop after CCing it at his firm Rosemont Seneca Partners in an email with phone numbers for the Clintons, senators and most of the Obama cabinet.