Biden’s document scandal is looking really bad —even Adam Schiff can’t deny it.
According to a report from The New York Post, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) thinks that President Biden’s document scandal may have jeopardized national security —at least at this point, he’s not ruling it out.
“I don’t think we can exclude the possibility without knowing more of the facts,” Schiff told ABC News’ Jonathan Karl when asked if Biden may have “jeopardized” national security by taking the documents.
“We have asked for an assessment in the intelligence community of the Mar-a-Lago documents,” Schiff said. “I think we ought to get that same assessment of the documents found in the think tank, as well as the home of President Biden.”
From The New York Post:
Schiff said he would “reserve judgment” on whether Biden should have been more forthright about the discovery of the documents on the eve of the midterm elections in November. The White House did not disclose the discovery until reports of a Justice Department probe emerged last week.
“I’d like to know what these documents were. I’d like to know what the [intelligence community’s] assessment is, whether there was any risk of exposure and what the harm would be and whether any mitigation needs to be done,” Schiff said.
Biden’s personal lawyers discovered the documents while going through an old storage unit, the White House revealed Monday. Meanwhile, the records at Biden’s Delaware home were kept in the garage next to his prized classic Corvette.
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday appointed former Maryland US Attorney Robert Hur as special counsel to lead the investigation.
While Schiff is reserving judgment on Biden, he says former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago situation is a “very different matter.”
“It looks, as far as we can tell, that it was inadvertent that these documents were in these locations. When they were discovered, they were immediately provided to the Archives or the Justice Department. There was no effort to hold onto them, no effort to conceal them, no effort to obstruct the Justice Department’s investigation,” he said.
“This is a very different matter, but nonetheless I think it’s appropriate for a special counsel to look into both situations.”
More over at The New York Post:
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