


A former executive assistant for President Joe Biden was reportedly unaware there were classified documents in the boxes she packed for the then-vice president that were later unpacked at his private office at the Penn Biden Center, according to testimony given to the House Oversight Committee.
Kathy Chung, who was Biden’s assistant during the Obama administration, told the committee she didn’t notice there were classified documents in the boxes because she did not closely examine the items while she unpacked them, according to excerpts from her testimony obtained by CNN. Her testimony supports previous comments from Biden, who said he was “surprised” to learn the documents were at the Washington, D.C., office.
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The excerpts were provided to the outlet by a Democratic committee staff, which accused Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) of seeking to “cherry-pick and misrepresent critical information in this investigation,” according to the memo obtained by CNN. The memo then calls on Comer to release the entire transcript so that the American public can see her testimony in full.
However, a spokesperson for the committee told the Washington Examiner it does not plan on releasing the transcript “at this time” because it contains sensitive information related to its investigation into Biden’s classified documents.
“Kathy Chung provided valuable information to the Oversight Committee’s investigation of President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents,” the spokesperson said. “Kathy Chung’s testimony undermines the White House’s narrative of the events. We now know the classified documents were not kept in a locked closet at the Penn Biden Center as the Biden team has asserted, and the timeline for packing up these documents starts six months earlier.”
Chung’s testimony provides fresh details to the classified document saga for the first time in months as lawmakers, as well as the Department of Justice, investigate the matter.
Chung told the Oversight Committee that none of Biden’s family members were involved in the packing process and that she did not sort through any of the materials before filing them into boxes.
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“We didn’t have the time, or we didn’t think that we needed to sort through them,” she said, adding that she did not check to see if any of them were classified, according to the outlet. “We just were tasked with — to pack up.”
Chung has also been interviewed by the DOJ in its separate investigation, sitting down with prosecutors in January before Robert Hur was appointed as special counsel to the case. She has since been contacted by Hur’s office but has not been called to return for another interview, according to CNN.