Kevin O’Coner, who served as a doctor of President Biden during his tenure, asked the House Oversite Committee on Saturday that the Republican -led committee could ask him to postpone the testimony on the scope of those questions.
O’Coner is going to make a statement on Wednesday as part of the committee Test In the use of biden’s mental acumen and an autopan signing device. In a letter to the rape James Comer (R-K), the chairman of the committee, O’Coner’s lawyer David Shirtler asked to postpone the testimony for the week of July 28 or August 4.
In the letter, Schertler expressed concern that the doctors would not be able to protect the privilege during the O’Coner testimony, and said that the committee had refused to control any limit within the scope of the statement.
The letter states, “Dr. O’Coner has legal and moral obligations that they should satisfy and for whom violations take professional and personally seriously consequences for them,” reads the letter. “We are unaware of any prior opportunity, on which a Congress committee has sub-satisfied a doctor to testify about the treatment of a personal patient. And the belief that a Congress committee will do so without any relationship that is dangerous for the secrecy of a doctor-family relationship.”
A spokesman for the committee told NBC News, who first reported the letter, was trying to “stonewell” the Oconer investigation. The spokesman said that the doctor was welcomed to claim that the answers to personal questions between the doctor and the patient were private during the statement.
The committee is already Interview Neera Tanden, former director of the White House Domestic Policy Council. Top Jill Biden Associate Anthony Burner was first determined to testify, but was not selected to show, This caused In a sub -venda from the committee.
