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From the Washington Examiner: A top former aide to former President Joe Biden testified behind closed doors Tuesday for more than four hours as part of the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into his mental fitness to serve and his White House’s use of an autopen, confirming she was authorized to use the automatic signature device while pushing back on concerns about alleged manipulation or malfeasance.
Neera Tanden, who served as director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, explained in her opening remarks Tuesday that she was given authority to wield the autopen. She said she “was responsible for handling the flow of documents to and from the president” and was authorized to direct autopen use from October 2021 to May 2023 when she was serving as staff secretary and senior adviser to Biden.
Tanden entered the committee’s Capitol Hill office building at 9:46 a.m. and did not respond to questions from reporters.
Among the top takeaways from the hearing was the following admission:
Tanden confirmed that during her tenure as White House staff secretary, she oversaw the many documents coming to and from the president’s desk, and she noted that her role included authorization to direct autopen use.
“As staff secretary, I was responsible for handling the flow of documents to and from the president,” she said. “I was also authorized to direct that autopen signatures be affixed to certain categories of documents. We had a system for authorizing the use of the autopen that I inherited from prior administrations. We employed that system throughout my tenure as staff secretary.”
The Trump White House sent Tanden a letter, waiving her executive privilege in the autopen investigation.
Trump’s White House counsel sent a letter to Biden aide Neera Tanden this morning, as she appears before the House Oversight Committee amid a probe into Biden’s mental fitness as president — The letter argues that asserting executive privilege is “not justified” because of the… pic.twitter.com/jWaTNBgdVz
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.@RepJamesComer before entering an interview with former director of the Domestic Policy Council, Neera Tanden: “I think there is a huge level of curiosity in the press core as to who was calling the shots in the Biden Administration.” pic.twitter.com/eqtyBn840W
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