The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee is launching an investigation related to President Biden's handling of classified documents.
The committee is seeking to conduct "an oversight of the Justice Department's actions" related to the case, per the letter from Jordan and Rep. Mike Johnson .
They wrote that Hur's appointment raised "fundamental oversight questions that the Committee routinely examines."The letter said it was "unclear when the Department first came to learn about the existence of these documents, and whether it actively concealed this information from the public" ahead of the midterm elections — echoing a Republican line of attack alleging an intentional delay, of which there's no evidence at this point.
Per Garland, the National Archives Office of Inspector General notified the Department of Justice thatThe White House has said the National Archives were alerted Nov. 2, the day of the documents' discovery. Ian Sams, spokesman for the White House counsel’s office, has told Axios: "This is an ongoing process under review by DOJ, so we are going to be limited in what we can say at this time."
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