The White House has done all it could to deflect from Joe Biden’s classified documents scandal. While there have been all kinds of leaks out of the Trump case, we haven’t heard much about the investigation into Biden and how he managed to get classified documents including from a time when he was a senator in 1974.

But that isn’t the only classified document problem going on in the Biden administration and once again there are big questions about how the Biden team has been handling this new matter.

Joe Biden’s Special Envoy for Iran, Robert Malley, was stripped of his security clearance and placed on unpaid leave pending a State Department security investigation for possible mishandling of classified documents.

This is doubly concerning, as House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul (R-TX) explained not just because of Malley’s alleged conduct, but also “whether the State Department misled Congress and the American public.”

McCaul noted, “While the suspension of Special Envoy Malley’s clearance is independently troubling, our concern is compounded by the State Department’s failure to respond to the Committee’s efforts to conduct oversight of its negotiations with and policy toward Iran. Since April 11, 2023, the Committee has repeatedly requested Special Envoy Malley’s testimony, which the Department has not fulfilled, despite Special Envoy Malley’s numerous press engagements dating back to May 30, 2023.”

Malley declined to appear before the committee due to illness of a close family member, according to McCaul’s letter. However, “At no point did the Department indicate that Special Envoy Malley’s security clearance was suspended or under review, or that he was being investigated for potential misconduct,” wrote the congressman.

He added “The Department’s failure to inform Congress of this matter demonstrates at best a lack of candor, and at worst represents deliberate and potentially unlawful misinformation.”

The State Department isn’t talking, beyond saying they don’t comment on “congressional correspondence” and that Malley was “on leave.”

Malley acknowledged he was “under review” and “on leave.”

Sen. Bill Haggerty (R-TN) is raising questions about how they could let Mally continue in the position if he had been under investigation and when did the Biden team first know there was a problem?

Hagerty also asked, “Why did they allow Malley to continue in his diplomatic role while under investigation?”

The Tennessee senator further wrote, “Malley’s contacts with Hamas & other extremist groups raised concerns in the past. Knowing his background & views, why did @Potus and & @SecBlinken select Malley for this sensitive position in the first place?”

Given what we’ve seen from the Biden team and how they have a real problem holding anyone to account for anything, one has to wonder what they saw to go to the level of removing his security clearance and starting an investigation. And one also has to think it isn’t good since they weren’t telling Congress about it.

Meanwhile, Malley is the guy who has been behind making a deal with Iran and he has some problematic views.

Malley has been accused of granting wide-ranging concessions to Iran’s regime as part of a planned nuclear deal. The slated accord could provide as much as $17 billion in sanctions relief to Iran in exchange for temporary restrictions on its alleged nuclear weapons program.

Fox News Digital reported last week that the Biden administration denied that an interim deal with Tehran has been reached but that backdoor negotiations are still underway.

Malley has also long advocated normalizing relations with a number of state sponsors of terrorism. According to a 2006 Time magazine piece, he wrote, “Today the U.S. does not talk to Iran, Syria, Hamas, the elected Palestinian government or Hezbollah…. The result has been a policy with all the appeal of a moral principle and all the effectiveness of a tired harangue.”

The U.S. government classified the Lebanese movement Hezbollah as a foreign terrorist organization. Iran’s chief strategic partner, Hezbollah has murdered hundreds of American military personnel.

Back in 2021, I wrote about the report that Robert Malley and John Kerry, among others, met with the Iranians during the Trump administration to allegedly bypass the Trump team and work with people who Iran hoped would get back into power. Talk about a question of a Logan Act problem. That was a big problem, yet both Kerry and Malley were rewarded for it, with both getting spots in the Biden administration, Malley becoming the Special Envoy to Iran. And here we are again, now with a problem with Malley, with the Biden team not being forthcoming.