Government Watchdog Files Federal Complaint About Involvement of White House Counsel’s Office in Classified Docs Scandal
FIRST ON FOX A government watchdog filed a federal complaint over the involvement of the White House Counsel’s office in President Biden’s Growing scandal with classified documents
Fox News Digital learned from the government watchdog Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) On Tuesday, the complaint was filed with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics.
“The American public will not tolerate a two-tiered system of justice – with well-connected insiders subject to a lower standard of scrutiny than the normal citizen,” Mike Chamberlain, PPT director, said this in a statement sent to Fox News Digital.
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Protect the Public’s Trust, a government watchdog, filed a federal complaint over the White House Counsel’s Office’s involvement in President Biden’s growing classified documents scandal.
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“President Biden promised the most ethical and transparent administration in history,” Chamberlain stated. “If the White House compounded a scandal involving possible mishandling of classified documents by improperly using taxpayer resources for his personal benefit and putting White House attorneys in positions that created conflicts of interest, we could be witnessing a serious betrayal of the public’s already-plummeting trust.”
“It also creates the spectre of possible obstruction of a congressional investigation, depending on the legal basis for the intervention and any future privileges claimed by the White House on this escalating scandal,” He added.
In the complaintPPT claimed that the, which was first obtained Fox News Digital, was incorrect. “taxpayer resources may have been inappropriately used by senior White House lawyers, including Special Counsel to the President Richard Sauber, to personally benefit Joe Biden.”
PPT claimed they were a part of the complaint exclusivey obtained by Fox News Digital “believe taxpayer resources may have been inappropriately used by senior White House lawyers, including Special Counsel to the President Richard Sauber, to personally benefit Joe Biden.”
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“We further believe that the apparent representation of Mr. Biden by the White House Counsel’s Office in this matter creates an untenable conflict of interest for that office,” The complaint is as follows:
“The result, intended or not, could be to reduce transparency into the mishandling of state secrets and foreclose disclosure of communications between White House Counsel staff while acting on behalf of Joe Biden in his capacity as a citizen facing the prospect of criminal prosecution,” It will continue.
Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, The complaint was weighed in by the public, who asked why the special counsel for the president was working with Department of Justice (DOJ officials) to gather the classified documents.
“Why was White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber accompanying DOJ officials while they collected classified documents at the Biden residence?” Jordan asked. “Mr. Sauber’s role raises serious concerns about the integrity of the Justice Department’s investigation.”
The White House did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
The complaint comes as Biden weathers the growing classified documents scandal that saw the discovery of two batches of documents in the Penn Biden Center and the president’s Wilmington, Delaware garage next to his Corvette.
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This complaint comes as Biden faces the growing scandal surrounding the Penn Biden Center’s discovery of two batches documents. president’s Wilmington, Delaware garage His Corvette next to him.
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The White House has also been under fire for the lack of visitors logs at the president’s Delaware home. Fox News Digital reported Monday that they did not believe the logs existed.
George Washington University (GWU) law professor Jonathan Turley says that President Joe Biden’s lawyers are “likely witnesses in a criminal investigation” As the investigation into Biden’s handling classified documents continues,
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