Hunter Biden’s proximity to his father’s cache of classified documents sets off a national security alarm

The discovery of classified documents in the garage and other locations of President Biden’s home has put government secrets within reach of the president’s son, Hunter Biden.

Hunter Biden has listed his father’s house in Wilmington, Delaware as his first address for 2018 and 2019. This period, he said, was the worst of his alcoholism and drug addiction. At the same time, Hunter Biden was receiving millions of dollars from Patrick Ho, a leading Chinese businessman with extensive ties to China’s military intelligence.

Ho was convicted in December 2018 of seven counts of bribery and money laundering charges.

Classified Obama-era documents are believed to have been in the Wilmington mansion since at least 2017, when Biden’s vice presidency ended.

Evidence is mounting that the troubled son had access to where government secrets were found, as the elder Biden’s attorney admitted to finding classified documents in his home, including his garage, this month.

The paperwork is a legal matter for the president.

Federal law strictly prohibits the removal or storage of classified documents or materials outside of a secure location without authorization while Biden was vice president in President Obama’s White House.

But some critics say the long-term storage of sensitive documents in unsecured locations poses an even bigger national security concern.

Rep. James Comer, a Kentucky Republican and chairman of the House Oversight Committee, is concerned that Hunter Biden may not have been filtered into his father’s home. Stuart at the White House In a letter to attorney Delery, Mr. Comer demanded to know if Hunter Biden was conducting business dealings near classified documents.

“Documents on file with the Commission reveal that Hunter Biden’s driver’s license had the same address on it until 2018. I am concerned that I kept classified documents in the same place where my son lived while I was engaged in international commerce,” Mr. Cummer wrote.

Hunter Biden’s attorney, Chris Clark, did not respond to a request for comment by The Washington Times.

Mr. Comer is already pursuing a separate but related investigation into whether Hunter Biden and President Biden’s brother, James Biden, sought to profit from their surname. The investigation centers around the contents of Hunter Biden’s computer, a laptop he discarded at a repair shop in Delaware in April 2019.

The laptop’s hard drive contains a ton of information about Hunter Biden’s business dealings, including how he worked to keep business ties on the same track as his famous father. increase. President Biden has repeatedly claimed he never spoke to them about his son’s business dealings.

That claim was put to the test last week when the president’s name appeared in a 2017 email to Hunter Biden discussing a multi-million dollar natural gas deal with Chinese ties. The email was recovered from Hunter Biden’s laptop.

In an email dated Oct. 27, 2017, Louisiana attorney Robert W. Fennett addressed James Biden and Hunter Biden to discuss the purchase of 5 million tons of gas with Houston energy company Cheniere. I said I arranged a phone call.

“Confirm what you requested [the contact] I will be available for calls from Joe Biden and Hunter Biden on Monday morning,” Fennett wrote.
It’s possible Fennett mistyped Joe instead of Jim, but other emails and whistleblower testimony suggest that President Biden knew about his son’s business dealings.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

While the Oct. 27 email did not directly mention Chinese energy company CEFC as part of the deal, a subsequent email from Fennett said the deal would allow Hunter Biden’s group to ” It will have the capacity to supply 13 million tons of energy per year.” [liquified natural gas] to the port of China. “

A month later, Hunter Biden wrote to CEFC Chairman Ye Jiaiming, saying that the deal would provide a “large quantity” of liquefied natural gas at a competitive price while also offering “a partnership or acquisition of a promising company. We will advance CEFC’s long-term goals through [liquified natural gas] Terminal. “

The following month, Hunter Biden wrote to CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming that the deal would “offer large quantities of LNG at very competitive prices while at the same time supporting CEFC through a partnership or acquisition of a promising LNG terminal project in Louisiana.” advance our long-term goals.” “

Amid mounting concerns about business deals and possible involvement of President Biden, Republicans are trying to find out how much access Hunter Biden had to his father’s house while the documents were stored there. It is said that

A lot has been made about the background forms Hunter Biden filed in an attempt to rent a property in California. A form widely circulated on social media shows Hunter Biden paid $49,910 a month in rent for an undisclosed property.

The rent could have been office space at the House of Sweden, where the embassies of Sweden and Iceland are located in Washington. Rosemont Seneca Advisors, an investment firm co-founded by Hunter Biden, had offices there.

The Swedish State Property Commission confirmed to The Washington Times that Hunter Biden paid $49,910 in quarterly rent from March 2017 to February 2018.

Still, some conservatives, including former President Donald Trump, claim Hunter Biden paid his father rent while he was at home. was not included.

“Did Joe Biden really get paid $50,000 a month by hunters for a relatively low-value house? Who actually owns the house? Will he run for president in 2024?” Trump wrote to Truth Social:

Lawmakers don’t have to pay rent to tie Hunter Biden to his father’s house. It indicates that he listed his father’s Delaware residence as his home address.

A receipt from the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, a 2018 Wells Fargo statement, a credit card application, and a 2019 receipt from Apple all list Hunter Biden’s address as his father’s house in Wilmington. It is listed.

The lack of records of visitors to the home has frustrated lawmakers’ efforts to find out who visited Hunter Biden or his father at the home during the time the records were kept classified.

Mr. Comer requested a logbook of the mansion’s visits, but the White House says they do not exist.

Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the Secret Service, initially said the Secret Service does not maintain its own visitor records as it is a private residence. However, he later changed his opinion, admitting that the Secret Service “generates law enforcement and criminal justice information records” for individuals who come into contact with Secret Service-protected sites.

The initial announcement angered Republicans, who vowed to obtain information through other means. Louisiana Republican Rep. Mike Johnson said Congress could identify visitors through “testimony with family members of those who were in the residence.”