White House doctor O’Connor asks for delays in the Biden Autopen investigation
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Former White House doctor Kevin O’Connor served as a doctor for former president. Joe Biden, He called for delays in his future testimony before the House Oversight Committee this week.
O’Connor was scheduled to testify Wednesday, but there is currently disagreement with the committee on the scope of questions he is expected to answer during his testimony. Committee led by the chairman James Comer, R-Ky. interviews doctors as part of a study into Biden’s mental fitness and his administration’s use of autopens.
In a letter to Comer, O’Connor’s lawyers requested that testimony be delayed until July 28th or August 4th.
“Dr. O’Connor has a legal and ethical obligation he must meet, and whether the violation will have serious consequences on him professionally and personally,” the letter states.
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The House Oversight Committee is investigating the decline in mental fitness during former President Joe Biden’s term. (Get McNamee/Getty Images)
“We have not realised that the previous opportunity for Congressional Committees to summon doctors to testify about the treatment of individual patients and the concept that Congressional Committees do so without any relation due to the confidentiality of the relationship between the physician and patient is surprising.”
A spokesman for the Oversight Committee responded in a statement to NBC News that O’Connor and his legal team were simply trying to “stonewall” the process.
The committee said it welcomed O’Connor to oppose individual questions during his testimony. However, O’Connor is not permitted in the committee’s view to delay or reject Congressional subpoena due to concerns over questions about potentially privileged information.
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When then-President Joe Biden returned to the White House in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 2023, he spoke with then White House doctor Kevin O’Connor. ((Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP) (Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP by Getty Images))
The debate over O’Connor’s testimony comes just weeks after the former top aide to Biden. Neela’s teeth, She told the oversight committee that she was allowed to oversee the signatures, but she didn’t know who was giving her final clearance in the president’s inner circle.
In an interview with Tanden before Congress that lasted more than five hours last month, she was given the authority to direct automatic pen signing on behalf of Biden in her role as a senior adviser to the former president between 2021 and 2023, a board of supervisor official told FOX News.
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“Tanden testified that despite his incredible authority, he has minimal interaction with President Biden,” Kommer said. “She explained that she had no visibility of sending decision notes to members of the President’s inner circle to get approval for autopen signing, sending the notes and returning with approval.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.