Senate Intelligence Chair Mark Warner (D-Va.) on Nov. 10 requested a briefing on the discovery of the classified documents at an office President Joe Biden used before taking office.
“Our system of classification exists in order to protect our most important national security secrets, and we expect to be briefed on what happened both at Mar-a-Lago and at the Biden office as part of our constitutional oversight obligations,” the Democratic senator said in a statement to media outlets.
Documents with classified markings were discovered at a University of Pennsylvania office, which Biden used from mid-2017 until the start of his 2020 presidential campaign, White House attorney Richard Sauber announced on Jan. 9. According to Sauber, the documents were found on Nov. 2, days before the midterm elections. The public disclosure of the discovery did not occur until more than two months later….