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In a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on Thursday, Sen. John Cornyn told Chairman Dick Durbin that attempts from the Biden administration to block congressional oversight of the classified documents scandal is “completely unacceptable,” and will shut down the senate’s nominations process until Congress gets more access.
“This is very serious,” Cornyn, R-Texas, who also serves on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in the meeting. “It is completely unacceptable to me, I believe on a bipartisan basis, for the Biden administration to block Congress from performing its constitutional duty here…there are issues much larger than individual criminal investigation that I think needs to be addressed,” Cornyn said to Durbin, D-Ill.
“We are the policymakers,” the senator pressed. “And it’s just, it’s not hard to imagine some scenario in which classified information is taken out of a secure facility, is made available to our adversaries, that it would threaten the national security of the United States, in ways that we would need to respond to as policymakers.”
Cornyn also confirmed in a briefing Wednesday with Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, the Intelligence Committee learned that Haines “has no information about the classified information” that was found at former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, President Biden’s garage and former Vice President Mike Pence’s office…. (Read more)
