On Monday, U.S. Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), ranking member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Committee on the Budget, sent a letter to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Acting Archivist Debra Steidel Wall regarding NARA’s review of President Biden’s official records. The senators revealed that prior to NARA’s review of certain Biden records, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reviewed the contents of nine boxes of Biden records that were moved from the Penn Biden Center to an office in Boston belonging to one of Biden’s attorneys.
The senators wrote, “[o]n March 7, 2023, you confirmed that NARA retrieved nine boxes of Biden records from Pat Moore’s Boston office after Mr. Moore had moved them there from the Penn Biden
Center. When our offices asked NARA whether it has reviewed the contents of those nine boxes, you initially wrote, ‘NARA has not reviewed the contents of the boxes found at Mr. Moore’s Boston office.’ However, after our staff reiterated the question in an email, NARA General Counsel Gary Stern revealed that, ‘while NARA has not yet reviewed the contents of the nine boxes, the FBI has.’”
“If the FBI’s review occurred on or before your March 7 response to us, it is unclear why you did not disclose that information. It also remains unclear what steps, if any, NARA has taken to ensure that all records will be properly preserved before, during, and after the FBI’s review,” the senators added.
Read more about the letter in Fox News.
The full text of the letter can be found here and below.
