pic——MarcoPolo501c3.org Above, Kathy Chung (circled), the Hunter Biden friend enlisted as “gatekeeper” for his father as Vice President. She remains in a sensitive Pentagon post after Special Counsel Robert K. Hur implicated her in the mishandling of Joe Biden’s classified documents.
While Special Counsel Robert Kyoung Hur has raised the issue of mental deterioration in explaining why he declined to prosecute 81-year-old Joe Biden for illegal retention and sharing of classified documents, the president chose another rationale to declare himself not culpable: He shifted the blame to the staffers who boxed up his records as he left the vice president’s office in 2017.
At a press conference hastily assembled after the Hur report’s release, Biden said he assumed his aides had shipped “all” the documents to the National Archives in College Park, Md. “I wish I had paid more attention to how the documents were being moved and where,” he said. “I thought they were being moved to the Archives. I thought all of it was being moved [there].”
The president’s explanation does not address how and why he shared classified material with a ghostwriter, but it shines a light on the longtime assistant who was in charge of packing his papers, Kathy Sang-ok Chung.
Chung, an old friend of Hunter Biden, who worked with Hunter at the Clinton Commerce Dept, was recommended by Hunter for a job with Joe Biden in 2012 when he was vice president. She told investigators she oversaw the transfer of the contents of Biden’s file cabinets and desk drawers into 15 boxes when he moved out of the West Wing in January 2017.
While other office material did go to the National Archives, Hur rebuked Biden for keeping more than 600 pages of classified information – including military secrets and intelligence sources and methods – in unlocked and unauthorized containers at multiple locations, including a tattered box in the garage of Biden’s Delaware home. The stash included information marked “top secret” involving Iran, China, Afghanistan, and Ukraine. Some of the secrets are compartmented by codewords and can only be stored and read in a secure facility known as a SCIF.
The Biden documents that Chung herself packed, unpacked, and repacked “are the most highly classified, sensitive and compartmented materials recovered during our investigation,” Hur wrote..........snip
Biden ‘executive assistant’ referred to in Hur’s report was Biden’s WH gatekeeper, Kathy Chung.
<>Chung mishandled the classified documents yet she still was not charged.
<>Biden appointed her to a cushy job at the Pentagon as Secy Lloyd Austin’s assistant
<>as Secy Lloyd’s asst, Chung has access to the nation’s most highly sensitive military materials.
In Oct 2017, Chung relocated 15 boxes of WH classified documents
<>placed blocks away into the newly-built U of Penn “Biden Center” in a DC office building,
<>she unpacked Biden’s White House documents – including some marked “top secret” –
<>Chung placed them into a 3-drawer filing cabinet in her outer office
<>Chung’s office adjoined Biden’s office (designed to resemble his old West Wing suite).
<>Other documents were left in boxes stacked in an unlocked storage closet,
<>Chung debunked Biden’s claims they were stored in a “locked closet.”
<>the entire office Biden Center suite was never locked,
<>anybody who got past the lobby security guard had access to the classified files stored there.