Biden admin. officials are offering top congressional leaders a briefing on classified documents found in the possession of President Biden, former President Trump and former VP Pence, two sources say.
Documents seized by the FBI from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla.Biden administration officials are offering top congressional leaders a briefing on classified documents found in the possession of President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence, two sources familiar with discussions said.
The group represents the congressional leaders who have the most access to classified information and who aim to shape U.S. foreign and domestic policy as they're armed with sensitive information.dissatisfied with the Justice Department's inabilityLawmakers argue they can't fix whatever's wrong with the country's system of classifying and storing such material until they have a better idea of what the out-of-bounds material covers.
Republicans in Congress have been clamoring for a briefing about the documents seized at Trump's home in Palm Beach, Florida, on Aug. 8 as part of the FBI's criminal probe of apparently mishandled classified material, some marked"top secret."Trump has said the seizure was politically motivated and unnecessary.
He argued the seized documents belonged to him. He also claimed the FBI planted evidence to smear him. In any case, Trump said, he had the authority as president to declassify material as he saw fit, even though there was no evidence or documentation of declassification. In January it was revealed the National Archives had sent a letter asking former living presidents' and vice presidents' staff members to search for materials that could be classified or the property of the government.
"The Biden administration had not engaged at all anyone who was in national security on the issue of threats from these documents," he said."It took Congress to step in and say, 'We want a security threat [assessment].' And then they tried to deny giving the briefing to us from that [balloon] threat."
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