Speaker Kevin McCarthy asks reporters why Senator Biden would have classified docs

Brett T. | 8:00 PM on June 14, 2023

We know they've found classified documents mixed in with the boxes at the Penn Biden Center, in the garage of his Delaware home, and in at least one other room in the house. Some argue that as president, Donald Trump had the authority to declassify anything. Biden's classified documents came from his time as vice president when he had no such authority, and also his time as a senator.

Those documents that come from his time as a senator are the most interesting to us. As we recently reported, members of Congress were only able to review that (redacted) FBI form alleging a bribery scheme in a sensitive compartmented information facility, or SCIF. The same would have held for Senator Biden — if he wanted to review classified documents, he'd have to do it in a SCIF. (Remember when Sandy Berger stuffed classified documents in his pants and socks?)

Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been hit-and-miss, but he took the press to school Wednesday by asking the press if any of them had asked President Biden how he could possibly have classified documents from his time as a senator.

Speaker McCarthy ends CNN reporter's career in 50 seconds with one simple question about Biden's classified docs:

"Have you ever asked the question to the current President: 'As a Senator, why would you ever even have that document outside the SCIF?'"🔥

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