Biden Administration Continues Stonewalling Congress on Classified Docs

SBoth parties’ enators are becoming increasingly frustrated by the intelligence community’s alleged refusal of showing them. classified material Multiple administrations have been used to recover the funds.

Some say that even Senate members with the highest security clearances are not considered secure. Intelligence CommitteeYou are prevented from looking at the most recent batch of classified files that President has recovered. Joe Biden Former President Donald Trump.

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“I’m very disappointed with the lack of detail and a timeline on when we’re going to get a briefing, not on anything dealing with criminality — that’s an appropriate Department of Justice responsibility — but it is our responsibility to make sure that we, in our role as intelligence oversight, know if there’s been any intelligence compromise,” Mark Warner (D.VA), who heads the Senate Intelligence Committee said. per ABC.

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Warner previously vented His frustration was that the powerful group of people could not review documents seized from Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8, 2022, following the bombshell raid.

“Every member of the committee, regardless of Democrat or Republican, [was] unanimous in that this position that we are left in … until somehow a special counsel designates that it’s OK for us to get briefed, is not going to stand,” Warner was added. “And all things will be on the table to make sure that doesn’t happen.”

Keeping “all things on the table” It could be a nod at his colleague, Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas (R-AR), which has vowed to stymie Biden refused to accelerate the Senate nominations of Biden out of protest at the “stonewalling” Sen.

“There’s no reason why Congress cannot review these documents in a secure, classified setting so we can make an assessment about what damage it may have caused to national security,” Cotton said.

Warner agreed with Cotton’s comments and said that the panel received briefings about sensitive national security topics. Marco Rubio, Vice Chairman of Senate Intelligence Committee (Republican from Florida), has also criticised the Department of National Intelligence’s handling of sensitive national security matters. “untenable” position to hide the documents from them.

“It cannot be that your answer is that ‘we can’t tell you what was discovered until the special counsel allows us to.’ The information we’re asking for has no bearing whatsoever, that would interfere in no way, with a criminal investigation,” Rubio said.

Multiple documents bearing classified markings that date back to Biden’s time as vice president were recovered from his Washington, D.C. think tank office and his Wilmington, Delaware residence. Hundreds of pages of documents worth were also confiscated from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate over the course of last year.

Some of the files contained highly classified information.

Later reports also revealed that classified material had been found at the homes of former President Jimmy Carter, and former Vice President Mike Pence. The Justice Department has assigned special counsel Jack Smith and Robert Hur to investigate Trump’s document scandal.

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Members of Congress also requested risk assessments for classified discoveries. The House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (Republican from Kentucky) and his counterpart, the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan (Republican from Ohio), initiated investigations into the Biden classified documents.

Trump denied any wrongdoing accusations, while Biden insists he is fully cooperating in the DOJ review.