The Democratic and GOP leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee are urging the director of national intelligence to provide the panel with access to the documents marked classified that were found in the homes of Pres. Biden and former Pres. Trump.
In a joint interview with"Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan set to air in full Sunday, Sens. Mark Warner, the Democratic chair of the Intelligence Committee, and Marco Rubio, the Republican vice chair, stressed the importance of seeing the records for themselves to determine whether there has been a national security breach.
Members of the Intelligence Committee met Wednesday with the Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines. According to Warner, senators emphasized to her that they cannot fulfill their oversight role and determine if the intelligence community is taking sufficient steps to mitigate any threat posed by the documents' potential disclosure without knowing which classified materials were discovered.
Sens. Mark Warner and Marco Rubio sit for an interview with"Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023.Rubio continued:"How can we judge whether their mitigation standards are appropriate if we don't have material to compare it against, and we can't even make an assessment on whether they've properly risk-assessed it?"
The Florida senator also accused the Justice Department of leaking details of the investigations to journalists. The Senate and House Intelligence Committees both asked for damage assessments of the sensitive materials found in Mr. Biden's and Trump's possession. A"small number" of documents bearing classification markings were alsolast week at former Vice President Mike Pence's Indiana home and turned over to the FBI, according to his lawyer.
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