{"id":1827563,"date":"2023-01-29T08:19:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T13:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1827563"},"modified":"2023-01-29T08:20:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T13:20:17","slug":"growing-standoff-emerges-between-senate-intel-and-biden-admin-over-classified-docs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/growing-standoff-emerges-between-senate-intel-and-biden-admin-over-classified-docs\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Standoff Emerges Between Senate Intel And Biden Admin Over Classified Docs"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgrowing-standoff-emerges-between-senate-intel-and-biden-admin-over-classified-docs%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1827563&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Senators pledged to fight back against the Biden administration&#8217;s refusal to grant access. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/federal-authorities-were-prepared-to-get-search-warrant-on-biden-over-classified-docs-report-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find classified documents<\/a> At the residences two presidents.<\/p>\n<p>In a chaotic scene, both Republican and Democratic members of the Senate Intelligence Committee walked out of a classified briefing Wednesday morning with Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence. They claim they are being blocked from performing their congressional oversight duties to protect national security.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/01\/25\/politics\/warner-rubio-senate-intelligence-classified-documents\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN reports<\/a>Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA), warned \u201call things will be on the table\u201d To gain access to the documents, the committee was united in its desire to know. \u201cif there\u2019s been any intelligence compromised.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed special counsels to investigate former President Donald Trump\u2019s and President Joe Biden\u2019s handling of documents, which senators said was the justification the intelligence community gave to withhold information from Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bottom line is this: They won\u2019t tell us what they have until the special counsel allows them to tell us. That\u2019s an unacceptable position,\u201d Vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and Sen. Marco Rubio (R.FL), said Rubio.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/senators-vent-intel-official-blocks-biden-trump-docs-rcna67550\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers are urging the intelligence community to comply. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/08\/27\/intel-officials-national-security-fallout-trumps-mar-a-lago-documents-00054006\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Do damage assessments<\/a> since the FBI raided Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago resort last year. The sense of urgency has only grown since classified materials were found in recent months at President Biden\u2019s Wilmington, Delaware, residence and think tank office in Washington, D.C., dating back to his time as a senator and vice president. Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/mike-pence-takes-full-responsibility-for-classified-docs-at-his-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The public has learned<\/a> The home of Mike Pence, a former Vice President, also contained classified documents.<\/p>\n<p>Biden administration accused of \u201cstonewalling\u201d Senator Tom Cotton (R.A.) indicated that he was ready to raise the issue in Congress \u201cpain\u201d by holding up Biden\u2019s nominees \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/senate-confirms-batch-of-us-attorney-and-us-marshal-nominations-after-cotton-lifts-long-standing-holds\/20255196\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a strategy he\u2019s used in the past<\/a> \u2014 or withholding budgetary funds, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/3831525-cotton-vows-to-block-nominees-until-congress-sees-documents-seized-at-biden-trump-residences\/\">according The Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m prepared to refuse consent to fast-track any nominee from any department or agency and to take every step that I can on every committee on which I serve to impose consequences on the administration until they provide these documents,\u201d Cotton is also a spokesman for the organization. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intelligence.senate.gov\/about\/committee-members-117th-congress-2020-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Member of the Senate Intelligence Committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Haines has yet not to make a statement publicly about the standoff with senators. However, she spoke on Thursday about preserving democracy. \u201cconfidence\u201d in the intelligence community\u2019s work by conducting briefings with Congress on a bipartisan basis.<\/p>\n<p>Haines insists that she tries to emphasize during a speech at LBJ Presidential Library \u201cwhat we\u2019re doing is for the nation and not for politics,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/dni-haines-biden-classified-documents-stonewalling-democrats-republicans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to The Washington Examiner<\/a>. She added: \u201cIf the public doesn\u2019t trust us and believes that we are biased politically or otherwise frankly in a way that is illegitimate, then people won\u2019t pay attention to the warnings that we have \u2014 it makes us less effective from a national security perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators vowed to push back against the Biden administration for refusing to provide access to classified documents found at the residences of two presidents. Democratic and Republican members of the Senate Intelligence Committee left a classified briefing Wednesday with Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines in an uproar, arguing they are being prevented from performing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1827566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4496,3620,7372,7077,5998,3758,7526,3740,4703],"class_list":["post-1827563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-admin","tag-biden","tag-classified","tag-docs","tag-emerges","tag-growing","tag-intel","tag-senate","tag-standoff"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1827563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1827566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1827563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1827563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1827563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}