Judicial Watch sues Department of Defense over alleged Biden classified docs cover-up

"The cover-up continues with yet another Biden agency hiding records in violation of law," Fitton said.

Published: January 23, 2024 7:15pm

Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the Department of Defense in order to obtain documents related to the Biden administration allegedly mishandling the president's classified documents at the Biden Penn Center.

Judicial Watch is requesting email communications, text messages, and voice recordings from Kathy Chung, the Deputy Director of Protocol, Office of the Secretary of Defense, for allegedly being in touch with those at the Biden Penn Center during the time the documents were discovered.

“While the Biden administration was scheming to jail former President Trump over a document dispute, Biden operatives were desperately trying to cover up Biden’s own and more significant document scandal,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “And the cover-up continues with yet another Biden agency hiding records in violation of law.”

Just the News previously reported that Joe Biden and his lawyers became aware of the President’s own classified documents problem in March of 2021, a year before his legal team told Congress that they had discovered documents at the University of Pennsylvania Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C. Biden’s legal team even dispatched White House employees to catalog the documents.

The Justice Department also last year found classified documents inside Biden’s Delaware home during a search by FBI agents.

The discoveries have transformed the politics of a scandal that first started with the discovery of documents with classified markings in former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, which prompted an FBI raid.