Hamas’ brutal terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians appropriately dominated last week’s news cycle. While vastly less important — from both a personal and world-affairs perspective — these four stories, which flew under the radar last week, deserve mention.
1. Biden’s Classified Docs Scandal
More than a year and a half before President Joe Biden’s attorneys claimed they “unexpectedly discovered” Obama-Biden documents at the Penn Biden Center, White House officials began screening the documents, James Comer, the Chair of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, revealed last week.
In an Oct. 11 letter to White House counsel Edward Siskel, Comer noted Biden’s personal attorney, Bob Bauer, had previously represented to the public that classified documents were first discovered at the Penn Biden Center on Nov. 2, 2022, and that Biden’s attorneys then promptly notified the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) of the discovery.
But according to an unnamed employee at the Penn Biden Center, on March 18, 2021, Annie Tomasini, assistant and senior adviser to the president and director of Oval Office operations, went to the Penn Biden Center to inventory Biden’s documents and materials. Thus, as Comer noted, the timeline began much earlier than Biden’s legal team had said.
This revelation raises the question of whether Tomasini discovered the documents with classification markings when she inventoried Biden’s records in March of 2021. If so, whom did she tell of that fact? Why was NARA not immediately contacted? And why were Biden’s personal attorneys later brought in to “find”
