Republican Missouri Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/josh-hawley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Josh Hawley</a> grilled the Biden administration&#8217;s national <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/national-archives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Archivist</a> nominee on Tuesday over her overtly partisan tweets.
In a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxCcTK5u4-M" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hearing</a> of the Senate Homeland Security Committee Tuesday, Hawley took to task the nominee, Dr. Colleen Shogan, over tweets she wrote blasting Republican politicians and COVID policies. Shogan locked her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> account when she was nominated to lead the National Archives and Records Administration, but Hawley obtained several of her posts anyway. Exasperated after she repeatedly refused to answer for her statements, Hawley blasted Shogan for stonewalling.
&#8220;I asked you to provide the public posts that had previously been available on Twitter because the ones that we have were pretty disturbing,&#8221; Hawley began. &#8220;You responded as follows, and I quote, ‘My personal Twitter account is comprised of posts about my mystery novels, events at the White House Historical Association, Pittsburgh sports teams, travels and my dog.&#8217; Is this an accurate statement?&#8221;
First, Hawley called out a post Shogan made in February 2022 complaining about the fact that mask mandates had been lifted for children under the age of five. He then asked if such an overtly political statement was characteristic of her Twitter feed. &#8220;My social media is in my personal capacity,&#8221; Shogan responded.
&#8220;Answer my question, please, because you&#8217;ve testified under oath that you only posted about your dog, and sports teams and novels, and you also said you wouldn&#8217;t give this committee any of your public posts,&#8221; Hawley fired back. But Shogan again refused to own up to the posts. Hawley pressed her again. &#8220;You are under oath before this committee, and I have to say, you have placed this issue squarely in record by repeatedly refusing to answer,&#8221; he said.
Next Hawley pointed out a post that Shogan retweeted calling for an assault weapons ban. He also pointed to a Twitter post she made in 2021 in which she said that Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz &#8220;ought to stay in his lane and not worry about what&#8217;s going on in Pittsburgh,&#8221; apparently in reference to investigations into the 2020 election. He then pointed to a post from December 2020 wishing that former President Trump would have his vetoes overridden and calling him a &#8220;weak policy president.&#8221; He also pointed to another post on January 5, 2021, claiming Trump would pardon himself for trying to overturn the election.
In another post Hawley pointed out, Shogan replied to a user complaining about religious flags on the grounds of the Library of Congress, and gave advice on how to complain and have the posts taken down. In every case, Shogan simply averted her eyes and repeated that her Twitter account was in her personal capacity.
An exasperated Hawley finally gave up. &#8220;I have to say, I have been here for four years in the Senate,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I have never seen a witness stonewall like this before. Never. And I&#8217;ve seen a lot. This is extraordinary. &#8230; I mean, this is unbelievable, and you want to be the archivist of the United States. You lied to us under oath, you lied to us in your [Questions for the Record], you just lied to me a second ago under oath, and now you&#8217;re sitting here stonewalling, not answering questions about public posts that you&#8217;ve made.&#8221;
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&#8220;Mr. Chairman, I have to tell you, this is the most extraordinary thing I have seen in my brief time in the Senate,&#8221; Hawley concluded. &#8220;I have never seen a witness blatantly lie under oath like Dr. Shogan has just done to this committee, stonewalled this committee, and just repeatedly refused to answer my questions about her own posts that are in public. For these reasons, I will oppose your nomination and I strongly, strongly urge this committee to take action on this and force this witness to own up to the fact that she is misleading us right now before our eyes.&#8221;

Josh Hawley

‘Never Seen A Witness Stonewall Like This’: Hawley Goes Off On Biden Nominee Who Refuses To Own Up To Her Social Media Posts

Hawley Goes Off On Biden Nominee Who Refuses To Own Up To Her Social Media Posts

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Former Democratic President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jimmy-carter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jimmy Carter</a> once found classified government documents at his home that he then turned over to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/national-archives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Archives,</a> according to a new report.
The mishandling of classified documents is a chronic problem at the highest levels of the U.S. government, one person familiar with the matter told the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-trump-classified-documents-president-33df0355c72e9ae8fa4cb6ead13f6521" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a>. At least several times a year, documents are located where they are not supposed to be and turned over to the National Archives.
On at least one occasion, Carter found sensitive government papers in his home in Georgia, the person told the AP. It is unclear when the discovery was made or when the documents were handed over.
Coincidentally, Carter signed the Presidential Records Act in 1978, though the law did not take effect until he was out of office and former President Ronald Reagan was in the White House. Before the law, presidential records were generally considered to be the president&#8217;s private property, not the government&#8217;s property, according to the AP.
The report about Carter comes after a series of classified document discoveries has hit one sitting president, one former president, and one former vice president in just the past six months. The FBI raided former President Donald Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida resort, in August to confiscate materials marked classified.
Attorneys for President Joe Biden found classified documents stored in his former office at a think-tank in Washington, D.C., and at the president’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, on four occasions. The FBI found more documents in the president’s Wilmington home when they searched the house on Friday evening.
An attorney for former Vice President Mike Pence <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-classified-documents-found-at-former-vp-mike-pences-home-in-indiana" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> a batch of classified documents at Pence&#8217;s home in Indiana last week, which Pence promptly turned over to the National Archives, according to his team. The former vice president had his residence searched after the revelations about classified documents connected to Biden went public earlier this month.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed two special counsels to take over Justice Department investigations into Trump and Biden.
The bevy of recent discoveries has forced some Republicans and Democrats into an awkward dance about the leaders of their respective parties, both having kept materials marked classified at their private residences.
“They’re trying to attack former President Trump. Biden was chair of the Foreign Relations Committee” in the Senate, Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD) told <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/23/biden-documents-democrats-concern-00079138" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLITICO</a>. “He should have known better. And they were trying to claim the high ground on this issue when the shoe was on the other foot. And I think it’s a very tough issue for them to have to navigate right now.”
Democrats have maintained that Biden has handled the discovery better than Trump.
“He has done well by cooperating every step of the way, unlike Trump, but he still has documents that I don’t understand why he’d have in his personal possession,” Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin (D-IL) said.

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Former President Jimmy Carter Once Found Classified Docs At His Home: Report

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The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability said Tuesday that the National Archives and Records Administration failed to meet a deadline set by the committee to turn over materials for further investigation of the classified documents found in locations tied to President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>.
&#8220;The National Archives has not produced the requested documents to the Committee at this time,&#8221; a committee spokesperson told <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/01/25/nara-deadline-house-oversight-committee-biden-docs?utm_campaign=editorial&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios</a>. &#8220;Chairman Comer&#8217;s request still stands and anticipates moving forward with a transcribed interview with NARA&#8217;s general counsel soon.&#8221;
The committee spokesperson further noted to <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/national-archives-misses-deadline-biden-classified-documents">The Washington Examiner</a> that Republican investigators initially anticipated conducting a transcribed interview with the federal agency, which would provide a timeline and how the classified information was handled.
Republican lawmakers launched the committee earlier this month after classified documents connected with Biden&#8217;s time as vice president were first found by his personal lawyers in his private office at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank in Washington, D.C., just before the midterm elections last year.
Since then, Biden&#8217;s attorneys have located more classified documents at Biden&#8217;s home in Wilmington on three separate occasions: an unspecified number found in his garage on December 20, one in Biden&#8217;s study on January 11, and five more found in the study on January 12.
Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chair of the House Oversight Committee, sent letters addressed to the National Archives and the White House Counsel&#8217;s Office on January 10, in which the committee demanded the material due to &#8220;Biden&#8217;s failure to return highly classified records from his time as vice president.”
Comer said that National Archives &#8220;instigated a public and unprecedented FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago — former President Trump&#8217;s home— to retrieve presidential records.&#8221;
&#8220;[Its] inconsistent treatment of recovering classified records held by former President Trump and President Biden raises questions about political bias at the agency,&#8221; he added, according to <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/01/10/house-oversight-committee-biden-docs">Axios</a>.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) questioned a key detail in Biden&#8217;s classified document scandal during an interview Friday with Fox News.
McCarthy asked why Biden had his lawyers move him out of the office.
&#8220;Yes, we are, and you&#8217;re missing one question: They say the attorneys found these documents,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kevin-mccarthy-questions-key-detail-in-bidens-classified-document-scandal">said</a>. &#8220;Who told the attorneys to look there?&#8221;
&#8220;Somebody else knew the documents were there all along. Otherwise, why would the attorneys even look?&#8221; McCarthy asked. &#8220;Whoever hires lawyers to be movers?&#8221;
Biden responded to the scandal last week by saying that he has &#8220;no regrets&#8221; over his actions and that getting questions about the investigation &#8220;quite frankly bugs&#8221; him.
&#8220;We&#8217;re fully cooperating, looking forward to getting this resolved quickly,&#8221; Biden claimed. &#8220;I think you&#8217;re gonna find there&#8217;s nothing there. I have no regrets. I&#8217;m following what the lawyers have told me they want me to do — that&#8217;s exactly what we&#8217;re doing. There&#8217;s no there, there.&#8221;

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National Archives Misses House Deadline To Turn Over Material Tied To Biden’s Classified Document Scandal

House Oversight Committee Chairman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/james-comer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Comer</a> (R-KY) said Saturday that the National Archives has not responded to requests for a briefing over the classified documents that were found at President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden&#8217;s</a> home and a Biden think tank.
Comer, who has jurisdiction over the National Archives, told Fox News that the National Archives has provided no information about what is going on with the documents that were discovered.
&#8220;This agency is supposed to do a briefing any time something like this happens. They have not,&#8221; Comer said. &#8220;Not only have they not given us a briefing, even though we&#8217;ve requested one, they haven&#8217;t answered any of our simple requests for information. This is very concerning. We are going to deal with the National Archives as this mess progresses. But right now, we have a lot of concerns who had access to these documents.&#8221;
Comer noted the odd nature of the claim from Biden&#8217;s team that his lawyers were moving him out of his office. &#8220;I mean, no one believes that lawyers are in charge of the moving team,&#8221; Comer said.
&#8220;Joe Biden promised the American people he would have the most transparent administration in history,&#8221; Comer said. &#8220;I could make a strong argument that this is the least transparent administration in history. The only reason we know about those documents today is because of investigative reporting by CBS. Someone leaked to CBS that Joe Biden had these classified documents or we would never know about it, and there would never be a special counsel. So this is very concerning.&#8221;
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The Biden Admin and DOJ 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐰 classified docs were stashed in a closet at the Penn Biden Center before the 2022 election. They also found docs in Biden&#39;s garage in December.
Why were Americans not notified?
Why was DOJ slow?
Why was only one residence raided? <a href="https://twitter.com/TeamCavuto?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TeamCavuto</a> <a href="https://t.co/haYKJPZR3w">pic.twitter.com/haYKJPZR3w</a>
&mdash; Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepJamesComer/status/1614290769514467331?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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TRANSCRIPT:
<blockquote>NEIL CAVUTO: Let&#8217;s get the read on what he might want to investigate. The aforementioned James Comer, the House Oversight Committee Chairman. Mr. Chairman, always good to have you. Thanks for coming back.
JAMES COMER (R-KY): Thanks for having me.
NEIL CAVUTO: What do we know? What do you know about these documents? Or just exactly how classified some of them are? We&#8217;re told that a bunch that were found in the president&#8217;s garage in Wilmington had top classification, you know, markings. But you know more than I, maybe. What have you learned?
JAMES COMER (R-KY): Well, unfortunately, I do not know more than you. And that&#8217;s very concerning because I have jurisdiction over the National Archives. This agency is supposed to do a briefing any time something like this happens. They have not. Not only have they not given us a briefing, even though we&#8217;ve requested one, they haven&#8217;t answered any of our simple requests for information. This is very concerning. We are going to deal with the National Archives as this mess progresses. But right now, we have a lot of concerns who had access to these documents. It&#8217;s hard for us to believe, as Joe Biden said, that his team of lawyers were moving boxes around and they discovered it. I mean, no one believes that lawyers are in charge of the moving team. And I wonder, did all the documents end up at the same place initially, like, let&#8217;s say, the Biden Center and then someone at the Biden center took some boxes to the house and were looking through the information at the house. I mean, there are a lot of questions here. Unfortunately, we don&#8217;t have any answers.
NEIL CAVUTO: We do know a little bit about the timeline about how this all became known. As you know, by now, Chairman, Merrick Garland was aware of this back in November. That was before the midterm election. We don&#8217;t know how much of that was relayed to the president, but we knew that he knew back then. So I&#8217;m just wondering what could explain, or are you concerned about the delay in making that known and getting a special counsel appointed much sooner?
JAMES COMER (R-KY): We&#8217;re very concerned. I mean, Joe Biden promised the American people he would have the most transparent administration in history. I could make a strong argument that this is the least transparent administration in history. The only reason we know about those documents today is because of investigative reporting by CBS. Someone leaked to CBS that Joe Biden had these classified documents or we would never know about it and there would never be a special counsel. So this is very concerning. This is another example of a two tier system of justice in America. This is another example of how the current president has been treated versus the former president. And this is why we&#8217;ve created a task force to examine the weaponization of the Department of Justice.
NEIL CAVUTO: You know, Congressman, I am curious as well about Joe Biden and his comments on this to the degree that he didn&#8217;t know about it. Now, that might be the case, might not be the case, but if it is the case, isn&#8217;t that even more problematic? Isn&#8217;t that even more worrisome? The classified documents were in his possession and he didn&#8217;t know it.
JAMES COMER (R-KY): Exactly, Neil. You know, that is the argument for defense that a lot of Democrats in Congress say, well, he didn&#8217;t even know about it. Well, that makes it even worse, because here&#8217;s what we know. And this is — I can tell you this from the investigation into the Biden family influence peddling — this family has a history of receiving lots of anonymous donations from China, whether it be to the Biden Center for Diplomacy, whether it be to Hunter’s shady business dealings, whether it be for Hunter&#8217;s artwork. I mean, there is a pattern here, and this is very concerning. And you may ask, why would China invest so much money in the Bidens? Just look, recently what was discovered with respect to the University of Penn successfully lobbying the FBI to drop the China initiative, which was an investigation into China&#8217;s influence in our university system, stealing our research and development technology. They had the FBI drop this in the Biden administration because they said it was racist. So that alone would be a pretty darn good investment for China. We have to investigate the Biden family for being a national security risk, and the fact that they had classified documents stored improperly, that’s another reason why.
NEIL CAVUTO: You know, I&#8217;m just wondering whether in your investigations, wherever they go, Chairman, whether you want to talk to Robert Hur, the special counsel, who will be involved in this.
JAMES COMER (R-KY): Well, I think it&#8217;s going to depend on what he does. I&#8217;m not a fan of special counsels. I didn&#8217;t think they should have called for a special counsel for Trump. And I don&#8217;t think they should call for one for Biden. But after Merrick Garland called one for Trump, he had to do the same thing for Joe Biden. He had no other options. These special counsels never worked out the way they&#8217;re intended. They never stay within their area of investigation. Merrick Garland said this special counsel with respect to the Biden classified documents would focus solely on the classified documents. I don&#8217;t want them to expand their investigation for the sole purpose of blocking House oversight’s investigation of the Biden family influence peddling.
NEIL CAVUTO: Well, they would do it apart, right? I guess they would do it [apart] … the reason why I asked, sir, is of course, in the case of Donald Trump and the special counsel appointed to look into him also by Merrick Garland, there was an effort to get Jack Smith to speak to various committees — the special counsel in that case — and he refused. I&#8217;m sure it would be the same posture by Robert Hur. So to Americans watching this will unfold, their investigations continue, undeterred, presumably uninterrupted. Yours will go on. I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s being planned in the Senate. It’s a lot of investigations.
JAMES COMER (R-KY): A lot of investigations. And, you know, it&#8217;s very unfortunate that Congress would have to dedicate any amount of time to investigating whether or not this administration&#8217;s compromised from China. But I think that what&#8217;s been brought out to light in the last few days is the fact that the Biden center for diplomacy was funded almost exclusively from China. And that&#8217;s a concern — when every American, regardless of party affiliation, regardless of ideology, believes that we need to stand up to China, that China is stealing our intellectual property, they&#8217;re stealing our patents, they&#8217;re manipulating their currency, they have human rights abuses, the list goes on and on and on — and yet they continue to take our manufacturing jobs. They continue to, you know, put Americans at risk. And yet this administration is tied into China in every which way imaginable. We have to investigate this because this is a concern. And, you know, the one positive thing about the fact that Biden had these classified documents is it shows that our investigation is justified.
NEIL CAVUTO: All right. We&#8217;ll see it. It&#8217;ll be among many. We&#8217;ll watch very closely, Chairman, thanks for coming out on a Saturday. Always good to see you.</blockquote>
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House Oversight Chairman On Biden’s Document Scandal: National Archives Won’t Disclose What Was Found

James Comer

A second set of classified documents was found at President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>&#8216;s home in Delaware, according to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House</a> counsel.
Richard Sauber, special counsel to the president, said in a statement that a review of Biden&#8217;s known offices, quarters, and other spaces turned up a second set of classified documents, these located at the president&#8217;s 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>. The review was prompted by the discovery of 10 classified documents at Biden&#8217;s private office at a think tank in Washington, D.C., in November.
“During the review, the lawyers discovered among personal and political papers a small number of additional Obama-Biden administration records with classified markings,” Sauber said. “All but one of these documents were found in storage space in the President’s Wilmington residence garage. One document consisting of one page was discovered among stored materials in an adjacent room.”
Sauber&#8217;s statement did not say when the additional documents were found. Nor did he indicate what classification level the documents were marked as or what information is contained within them.
Sauber said that another home owned by Biden in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, was also searched as part of the document hunt. No classified documents were found there, however.
The review <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/review-of-biden-spaces-turns-up-second-batch-of-classified-docs-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">began</a> sometime after Biden&#8217;s personal attorney found 10 classified documents stashed in an envelope in the president&#8217;s private office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington. The attorney discovered the envelope on November 2, though the discovery was not made public until earlier this week. The documents were immediately turned over to the National Archives for storage, Sauber said on Monday.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is reviewing Biden&#8217;s handling of classified documents after the discovery of the envelope in November. Sauber has said the White House is cooperating with the DOJ and National Archives.
“The discovery of these documents was made by the President’s attorneys,” Sauber said. “The documents were not the subject of any previous request or inquiry by the Archives. Since that discovery, the President’s personal attorneys have cooperated with the Archives and the Department of Justice in a process to ensure that any Obama-Biden Administration records are appropriately in the possession of the Archives.”
The documents found at Biden&#8217;s D.C. office reportedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-classified-documents-found-in-bidens-private-office-covered-iran-ukraine-uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contain</a> U.S. intelligence memos and briefing materials on Iran, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom, though it is unclear what exact information is contained within the documents.

Second Set Of Classified Docs Found At Biden Home In Delaware

Second Set Of Classified Docs Was Found At Biden Home In Delaware

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Aides to President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> have reportedly found at least one other batch of classified documents stored at a different location than Biden&#8217;s private Washington, D.C., office where classified papers were found last year.
A personal attorney for Biden discovered 10 classified documents in the president&#8217;s private office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington in November. Those documents have since been turned over to the National Archives. The initial incident prompted Biden aides to begin searching the president’s other known spaces for additional documents, however, according to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-aides-find-second-batch-classified-documents-new-location-rcna65371" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News</a>.
It is unclear where the additional documents were found, when they were found, and if the search for additional documents is still ongoing. It is also unclear what classification level the documents were marked as or what information is contained within them, according to NBC.
After the original batch of classified documents was found in November, Biden aides began sifting through boxes of documents from the Biden&#8217;s stint as vice president to locate other documents that should have been turned over to the National Archives.
The first batch of classified documents was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-classified-documents-found-in-bidens-private-office-covered-iran-ukraine-uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> in an envelope kept in Biden&#8217;s private office at the Penn Biden Center on November 2, days before the midterm elections. Special counsel to the president Richard Sauber confirmed the discovery of 10 classified documents in Biden&#8217;s office on Monday.
“The discovery of these documents was made by the President’s attorneys,” Sauber said. “The documents were not the subject of any previous request or inquiry by the Archives. Since that discovery, the President’s personal attorneys have cooperated with the Archives and the Department of Justice in a process to ensure that any Obama-Biden Administration records are appropriately in the possession of the Archives.”
Those documents are reported to contain U.S. intelligence memos and briefing materials on Iran, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom, though it is unclear what exact information is covered.
The classified document scandal has drawn comparisons to former President Donald Trump&#8217;s ongoing legal battle over classified documents he allegedly kept at his residence at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida resort, after leaving the White House in January 2021.
&#8220;The only person that has the constitutional ability to declassify any documents is the president of the United States, not the vice president,&#8221; House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/president-biden-classified-documents-think-tank-republicans-criticize-trump-mar-a-lago/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Tuesday. &#8220;If then-Vice President Biden took classified documents with him and held them for years and criticized former President Trump during that same time that he had those classified documents, and only after it was uncovered did he turn them back, I wonder why the press isn&#8217;t asking the same questions of him.&#8221;
Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-demands-answers-from-nara-and-biden-white-house-about-classified-docs-stashed-at-penn-biden-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requested</a> information over Biden&#8217;s classified documents from the National Archives on Tuesday.

Review Of Biden Spaces Turns Up Second Batch Of Classified Docs: Report

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/national-archives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Archives and Records Administration</a> (NARA) intends to release hundreds of emails referencing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a> and his foreign business deals unless stopped by the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House</a>.
NARA executive Susan Donius sent a <a href="https://www.archives.gov/files/foia/pra-notifications/pdf/bidenvp/rn-labvp-2023-022.pdf">letter</a> to the White House late last month warning that the records agency is preparing to release emails in response to an open records request unless the White House intervenes. The emails are from 2014 when President Joe Biden served as vice president to former President Barack Obama.
Both men’s respective legal teams have been notified and given 60 days to assert privilege over any of the information slated to be released in accordance with the Presidential Records Act, according to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-white-house-archives-privilege-foia-hunter-burisma-ukraine-emails-2022-12" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Insider</a>, which first reported the existence of the <a href="https://www.archives.gov/files/foia/pra-notifications/pdf/bidenvp/rn-labvp-2023-022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NARA letter</a>.
The letter references a slate of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. One of those requests focused on records related to the president’s son Hunter and brother James and their foreign business dealings. NARA is preparing to release 185 emails in whole and 75 others with redactions in response to the request.
“The Biden Vice Presidential records to be opened are email messages from May 2014 to December 2014 that include the company name ‘Burisma,’” a summary of the FOIA request says.
“Several of the email messages are press inquiries regarding the announcement of Hunter Biden joining the board of directors of Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings Limited in May 2014 and the Office of Vice President’s responses to those inquiries. There are also email messages containing news articles compiled by White House staff which include articles referencing Hunter Biden and his role with Burisma,” it continued.
Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma in 2014 despite lacking any experience in the energy sector. He made as much as $83,333 a month for the role. His role at the company set off speculation that Burisma brought on the Biden scion to gain influence with the Obama administration. At the time, then-Vice President Biden was heading the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy.
Hunter Biden <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/a35y9k/hunter-biden-admits-his-last-name-has-opened-basically-every-door-for-him" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a 2019 interview that being a member of the Biden family has likely allowed him to take advantage of many opportunities he would not have had otherwise. He later <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-wouldnt-take-burisma-job-again-insists-it-wasnt-unethical" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> in his 2021 memoir “Beautiful Things” that he did nothing wrong in taking the job with Burisma, but the trouble it has caused for his family, especially his father, was not worth the pay.
“Did I make a mistake by taking a seat on the board of a Ukrainian gas company? No. Did I display a lack of judgment? No. Would I do it again? No. I did nothing unethical,” he wrote.
President Biden has repeatedly claimed that he never spoke with his son about Hunter’s foreign business dealings. That claim was seemingly contradicted in June by the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-spoke-with-hunter-about-dealings-with-chinese-oil-tycoon-voicemail-reveals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">release</a> of a 2018 voicemail found on Hunter’s abandoned laptop.
“Hey pal, it’s dad. It’s 8:15 on Wednesday night. If you get a chance just give me a call,” President Biden, then out of office, told Hunter in the recorded message. “Nothing urgent. I just wanted to talk to you. I thought the article released online, it’s going to be printed tomorrow in the Times, was good. I think you’re clear. And anyway if you get a chance give me a call, I love you.”
The voicemail references an article from The New York Times on dealings Hunter had with a Chinese businessman, Ye Jianming, the chairman of the Chinese energy giant CEFC.

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> allowed the release of documents related to the assassination of President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-f-kennedy-jfk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John F. Kennedy</a>, but ordered that some remain secret for now.
The National Archives posted 13,173 documents, <a href="https://twitter.com/USNatArchives/status/1603502150180651009" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a slight increase over</a> the initial 12,879 documents due to last-minute additions, containing never-before-seen information to <a href="https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2023/nr23-14" target="_blank" rel="noopener">its website</a> on Thursday, which was the deadline set by Biden following a redactions process.
&#8220;The John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection (the Collection), established by the National Archives in November 1992, consists of approximately five million pages,&#8221; the National Archives said in a press release. &#8220;The vast majority of the collection has been publicly available without restrictions on access since the late 1990s. Following today’s release, over 97% of records in the collection are now available.&#8221;
At the behest of some agencies and the acting archivist of the United States, citing &#8220;identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or the conduct of foreign relations that is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure,&#8221; Biden ordered that certain records will remain hidden from the public until at least June 30, 2023.
His <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2022/12/15/memorandum-on-certifications-regarding-disclosure-of-information-in-certain-records-related-to-the-assassination-of-president-john-f-kennedy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House memo added</a>: &#8220;Any information that agencies propose for continued postponement of public release beyond June 30, 2023, shall be limited to the absolute minimum under the statutory standard.&#8221;
Kennedy was assassinated at the age of 46 on November 22, 1963, in Dallas. Soon after, Lee Harvey Oswald, a former Marine and onetime defector to the Soviet Union, was arrested and charged with the killings of Kennedy and Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit.
Although Oswald denied killing Kennedy and claimed he was a &#8220;patsy,&#8221; he was never tried — Oswald was shot dead at the age of 24 on national television at the Dallas Police headquarters by nightclub owner Jack Ruby.
The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 was signed into law by former President George H.W. Bush, and there have been multiple delays in document disclosures ever since that time, giving room for conspiracy theories about Kennedy&#8217;s death to linger nearly 60 years later.
After former President Donald Trump pushed back the full release during his tenure, Biden followed suit in 2021 by directing an interim release in December of that year and one more comprehensive release by Thursday.
&#8220;Pursuant to my direction, agencies have undertaken a comprehensive effort to review the full set of almost 16,000 records that had previously been released in redacted form and determined that more than 70 percent of those records may now be released in full,&#8221; Biden said in his memo Thursday. &#8220;This significant disclosure reflects my Administration’s commitment to transparency and will provide the American public with greater insight and understanding of the Government’s investigation into this tragic event in American history.&#8221;
More than seven in 10 voters want the records released, <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/12/06/jfk-assassination-records-cia-poll" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the results of a poll released this month</a>.
The findings from Fernand Amandi, a Democratic pollster and JFK assassination history expert, were released at an event in Washington where investigators raised hopes for the disclosure of a &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lee-harvey-oswald-tied-to-cia-before-jfk-assassination-investigator-claims" target="_blank" rel="noopener">smoking-gun proof of a CIA operation</a>&#8221; involving Oswald, even though the federal government has long claimed Oswald acted alone and was not tied to the CIA. The group spearheading that effort, the Mary Ferrell Foundation, sued Biden and the National Archives in October, accusing the government of failing to implement the 1992 JFK Records Act.

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Missouri GOP Senator Josh Hawley grilled Colleen Shogan, President Biden’s nominee to lead the National Archives and Records Administration, noting that she had written a paper he said disparaged every two-term Republican president since World War II.
Hawley’s questions came during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Wednesday.
“You have talked in today’s hearings so far and in your pre-hearing Q&amp;A about how much it’s important to be a non-partisan leader, correct?” Hawley began. “And so if you’re confirmed, you will attempt to stay politically neutral in your decision making, is that fair to say?”
Shogan assented.
Hawley then brought up an article Shogan had written titled, “<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/20446425">Anti-Intellectualism in the Modern Presidency: Republican Populism</a>.” In the 2007 article, published by the American Political Science Association, Shogan wrote of Republican presidents Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush, saying that their “leadership posturing place them on the explicitly anti-intellectual side of the spectrum.”
“Do you consider this piece to be non-partisan?” Hawley asked.
“I consider it to be an academic article publication 16, 17 years ago, a scholarly piece,” she answered.
Hawley noted that Shogan had said modern GOP presidents had adopted an anti-intellectual posture and asked her how to define such a phrase.
“The ability so speak in very plain, common-sense terms to Americans,” Shogan replied.
In the article, she wrote, “Republicans tend to exhibit anti-intellectual qualities. Democrats coalesce on the intellectual tail of the continuum.&#8221;
In relation to this, Hawley asked, &#8220;So is your point that Republicans are stupid and Democrats are intellectual?”
Shogan argued she did not mean that, but then followed by saying that the three GOP presidents had a “rhetorical connection with the American people.”
“A rhetorical connection that you say is anti-intellectual and you feature every two term Republican president since Dwight Eisenhower,” Hawley noted. “It’s a piece on rhetoric, but you attribute part of the ‘anti-intellectualism’ of the Republican party, to in your words, to the rise of the religious Right. Because those voters are stupid?”
She disagreed with that characterization.
“You wrote an article saying basically that Republican voters are stupid, that Republican presidents deliberately appeal to anti-intellectualism,” Hawley pointed out with anger. “You roll it all up in this thing called Republican populism, yet you’re trying to present yourself here as a non-partisan. In fact, you’re an extreme partisan. &#8230; You’re someone who has denigrated Republican presidents; every two-term Republican president &#8230; since the Second World War and their voters.”
Hawley explained the importance of Shogan’s apparent partisan bias, obliquely referring to the FBI raid on former President Trump&#8217;s Mar-A-Lago home.
&#8220;This is not just a theoretical set of questions, because as you know, we have seen what happens when you have political activists in a position that you are up for confirmation for. And we are living through that as a nation right now,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;We are living through the weaponization, the political weaponization of the National Archives; the political weaponization of the Department of Justice; the political weaponization of the FBI, such that half of the people of this country cannot trust those institutions,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We’re living with a president who calls half the voters of this county semi-fascists, who has said they are a threat to democracy.&#8221;
“How can you assure them that you will be truly non-partisan given what you have said?” Hawley concluded.
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