{"id":1828070,"date":"2023-01-29T14:35:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T19:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1828070"},"modified":"2023-01-29T14:35:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T19:35:48","slug":"top-senate-democrat-blasts-biden-admin-over-classified-doc-scandal-doesnt-hold-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-senate-democrat-blasts-biden-admin-over-classified-doc-scandal-doesnt-hold-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Senate Democrat Blasts Biden Admin Over Classified Doc Scandal: \u2018Doesn\u2019t Hold Water\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Ftop-senate-democrat-blasts-biden-admin-over-classified-doc-scandal-doesnt-hold-water%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=1828070&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>Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) slammed the Biden administration over President Joe Biden\u2019s classified document scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Warner made the remarks during an interview on CBS News\u2019s \u201cFace The Nation\u201d with host Margaret Brennan while discussing when the committee would obtain information from the Director of National Intelligence about what was in the classified information at Biden\u2019s home and former office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur job is not to figure out if somebody mishandled those, our job is to make sure there\u2019s not an intelligence compromise,\u201d Warner stated. \u201cAnd while the Director of National Intelligence had been willing to brief us earlier, now that you\u2019ve got the special counsel, the notion that we\u2019re going to be left in limbo, and we can\u2019t do our job, that just cannot stand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd every member of the committee who spoke yesterday and I wanted the director to hear this, regardless of party said, we are united in we have to find a way to do our job,\u201d He went on. \u201cThat means we need these documents, we need that assessment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Warner was later added. \u201cThe notion of \u2018We\u2019re not going to give the Oversight Committee the ability to do its job until the special prosecutor somehow says it\u2019s OK,\u2019 doesn\u2019t- doesn\u2019t hold water. That\u2019s not going to stand with all the members of Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>MARGARET BRENNAN: Let\u2019s start on the news of the moment. The Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines gave you a briefing. Is there a timeline for when you will have access to the classified documents that President Biden and President Trump kept in their homes?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>SEN. MARK WARNER: Margaret, unfortunately, no. This committee has a long, bipartisan history of performing its duties. This is our job: intelligence oversight. The Justice Department has had the Trump documents about six months, the Biden documents about three months, our job is not to figure out if somebody mishandled those, our job is to make sure there\u2019s not an intelligence compromise.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And while the Director of National Intelligence had been willing to brief us earlier, now that you\u2019ve got the special counsel, the notion that we\u2019re going to be left in limbo, and we can\u2019t do our job, that just cannot stand. Every member of the committee that spoke yesterday, and I asked the director, wanted to hear it. Regardless of party affiliation, we all agree that we must find a way to do what we&#8217;re supposed to. This means that we need these documents and we need this assessment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MARGARET BRENNAN &#8211; But intelligence experts would argue that their hands are tied as this is an ongoing Justice Department investigation. What would you do to address your concerns while not compromising the integrity of this investigation?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>SEN. MARCO RUBIO: Well, I don\u2019t know how congressional oversight on the documents, actually knowing what they are, in any way impedes an investigation. These are materials that we probably already have access. We just don\u2019t know which ones they are. And it\u2019s not about being nosy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You know, here\u2019s the bottom line: if in fact, those documents were very sensitive, materials were sensitive, and they pose a counterintelligence or national security threat to the United States, then the intelligence agencies are tasked with the job of coming up with ways to mitigate that. How can we judge whether their mitigation standards are appropriate, if we don\u2019t have material to compare it against, and we can\u2019t even make an assessment on whether they\u2019ve properly risk assessed it?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So we\u2019re not interested in the timeline, the tick-tock, the who got what, who did that? Those are criminal justice matters, to the extent that that\u2019s what it is. That\u2019s not what we\u2019re interested in. We deserve and have a right and a duty to review what the materials were so we can have a better understanding of not just, you know, what the agency is doing about it, but whether it\u2019s sufficient.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MARGARET BRENAN: Does the director know the contents of the materials?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>SEN. WATERNER: We got a bit vague on that because I believe you want intelligence professionals to be able to verify that some of it was being made. But I would even think that if the- President Trump and President Biden would probably want to have this known if they say there\u2019s no there there. You know that there could still be violations in handling.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But we got to tell the American people and our colleagues, because we\u2019re the only ones who have access to this information, that there\u2019s not been an intelligence compromise. And again, this notion that when there was a special prosecutor appointed, they\u2019re not exactly the same circumstances. Remember that this committee spent many years investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election. There was also a special prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) slammed the Biden administration over President Joe Biden\u2019s classified document scandal. 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