{"id":12596,"date":"2023-12-07T02:11:15","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T02:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/07\/white-house-offers-meeting-with-house-gop-over-subpoena-standoff-in-biden-classified-docs-probe\/"},"modified":"2023-12-07T02:11:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T02:11:15","slug":"white-house-offers-meeting-with-house-gop-over-subpoena-standoff-in-biden-classified-docs-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/07\/white-house-offers-meeting-with-house-gop-over-subpoena-standoff-in-biden-classified-docs-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"White House offers meeting with House GOP over subpoena standoff in Biden classified docs probe"},"content":{"rendered":"

FIRST ON FOX:<\/strong> The White House is offering to meet with House Republicans to discuss their subpoena for former White House Counsel Dana Remus, suggesting her testimony could violate Executive Branch interests and threaten the ongoing special counsel investigation into President Biden\u2019s alleged improper retention of classified records.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital obtained a letter Special Counsel to the President Richard Sauber wrote to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan.<\/p>\n

\u2018We were pleased\u00a0to read that after several months of not responding to my letters,\u00a0you are now ready to discuss accommodations to\u00a0address the substantial Executive Branch institutional interests implicated by your subpoena to former White House Counsel Dana Remus,\u2019 Sauber wrote in a letter to Comer and Jordan Wednesday. \u2018We propose a meeting with your staff to start this important process.\u2019<\/p>\n

Sauber, pointing back to previous correspondence with House Republicans, said that \u2018by seeking testimony on matters that are the subject of an ongoing Special Counsel investigation, your efforts raise the troubling appearance that Congress seeks to interfere with a Department of Justice investigation.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018I have also raised concerns about your attempt to use compulsory process as part of your \u2018impeachment inquiry,\u2019 as this inquiry, along with subpoenas issued pursuant to it, was not properly authorized,\u2019 Sauber wrote.<\/p>\n

\u2018Nonetheless, we believe engaging in good faith is critical to avoid a constitutional conflict, and we propose a meeting with your staff to start this important process,\u2019 Sauber said. \u2018Given the compressed timeline created by your waiting nearly three weeks to respond to my prior letter, we expect you will pull down the return date for your subpoena to allow the accommodation process to proceed.\u2019<\/p>\n

Sauber\u2019s letter was in response to a previously unreported letter Comer and Jordan sent to Sauber this week in which the committee chairmen said they were \u2018willing to work with the White House to address any legitimate Executive Branch institutional interests.\u2019<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the House Oversight Committee told Fox News Digital that the White House has been uncooperative with the pending investigations into the president.<\/p>\n

\u2018The White House continues to obstruct Congress\u2019 quest for information about President Biden\u2019s mishandling of classified documents and his involvement in his family\u2019s influence peddling schemes. Instead of cooperating with Congress, the White House created a war room with two dozen staffers to combat our constitutional oversight and send snarky letters. The American people deserve better from the White House and we will continue to provide the transparency and accountability they are owed,\u2019 the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

Comer and Jordan, last month, subpoenaed former White House Counsel Remus last month to appear for a deposition as part of their investigation into President Biden\u2019s alleged mishandling and improper retention of classified records.<\/p>\n

Comer and Jordan said this week that without a \u2018specific legal basis or privilege that would prohibit her compliance with our subpoenas,\u2019 they expect Remus will comply and appear for a deposition.<\/p>\n

The White House, last month, requested that the committees \u2018withdraw all subpoenas issued in connection with this investigation of President Biden,\u2019 but House Republicans said White House officials \u2018did not assert ay legal reason, let alone privilege, that would prevent Ms. Remus from sitting for a deposition with the committees.\u2019<\/p>\n

Comer first requested Remus appear for a transcribed interview before the House Oversight Committee in May. That request came after the panel obtained information that they said \u2018contradicts important details from the White House\u2019s and President Biden\u2019s personal attorney\u2019s statements about the discovery of documents at the Penn Biden Center, including the location and security of the classified documents.\u2019<\/p>\n

Comer has described Remus as a \u2018central figure in the early stages of coordinating the packing and moving of boxes that were later found to contain classified materials.\u2019 Comer, in May, said Remus could be a witness \u2018with potentially unique knowledge\u2019 about the matter.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the subpoena also came after Comer, in October, demanded answers from Special Counsel Robert Hur, who is investigating Biden\u2019s alleged improper retention of classified records, on whether the sensitive,\u00a0classified documents\u00a0Biden retained were related to specific countries which were involved in his family\u2019s lucrative foreign business deals.<\/p>\n

Comer is investigating the Biden family\u2019s\u00a0foreign business dealings\u00a0as part of the House impeachment inquiry, as well as Biden\u2019s alleged mishandling of classified documents.<\/p>\n

Comer also requested from Hur a list of the countries named in any documents with classification markings recovered from Penn Biden Center, Biden\u2019s residence, including the garage, in Wilmington, Delaware, or elsewhere; and a list of all individuals named in those documents with classification markings; and all documents found with classified markings.<\/p>\n

Biden sat down for an interview with Hur in October.<\/p>\n

\u2018As we have said from the beginning, the president and the White House are cooperating with this investigation, and as it has been appropriate, we have provided relevant updates publicly, being as transparent as we can, consistent with protecting and preserving the integrity of the investigation,\u2019 White House spokesperson for investigations Ian Sams said after the president\u2019s interview with the special counsel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hur\u2019s investigation comes after a batch of records from President Biden\u2019s\u00a0time as vice president, including a \u2018small number of documents with classified markings,\u2019 were discovered at the Penn Biden Center by the president\u2019s personal attorneys on Nov. 2, 2022.<\/p>\n

Additional classified records were discovered at President Biden\u2019s Wilmington home in January. After that discovery, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Hur as special counsel to investigate the matter.<\/p>\n\n

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