Another Surprise! Biden's White House Refuses to Allow Senate Intel Committee Members -- All of Whom Have Maximum Possible Security Clearance -- to See the Classified Documents Biden Was Hoarding

They all have the highest possible security clearances permitting them to see classified documents -- unlike the office-movers and lawyers who have been repeatedly tasked with laying their grubby, unsecured hands on these documents.

They also want to see the documents Trump and Pence had. I'd like them to see those, too. I'd like to know how much the FBI and Intelligence Community Media Leak Grapevine is lying about "X-classification nuclear secrets."

Republicans are hinting -- probably bluffing, of course -- that they'll withhold funds from the intelligence agencies until they're allowed to see the documents that Biden had in his Sexy Corvette Intelligence Funhouse for six years.

Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee have vowed to "impose pain" on the Biden administration until the White House allows access to classified documents ​found in the possession of President Biden, former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the committee's vice chairman, hinted Wednesday that the panel could withhold funds from the intelligence community unless the administration begins to cooperate.

"I'm not in the business of threats right now," he said after meeting with Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence. "But I'm just saying, every year, this committee has to authorize how money is spent in agencies."

Another member of the committee, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), was more direct, pointing out that the panel could and would block Biden's intelligence nominees until the White House plays ball.

"Congress will impose pain on the administration until they provide these documents," he said.

House and Senate lawmakers have repeatedly demanded to know what was in the sensitive files despite ongoing special counsel probes into the Biden and Trump records.

"I'm very disappointed with the lack of detail and a timeline on when we're going to get a briefing," Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the panel's chair, said after members met with Haines.

"Not on anything dealing with criminality -- that's an appropriate Department of Justice responsibility -- but it is our responsibility to make sure that we, in our role as intelligence oversight, know if there's been any intelligence compromise," Warner added.

"Every member of the committee, regardless of Democrat or Republican, [was] unanimous in that this position that we are left in ... until somehow a special counsel designates that it's OK for us to get briefed is not going to stand," Warner went on. "And all things will be on the table to make sure that doesn't happen​."

Rubio agreed the administration's position on the documents is "untenable."

"The information we're asking for has no bearing whatsoever or would interfere in no way with a criminal investigation," said Rubio.

Meanwhile, the totally not-corrupt Biden Administration, in the grotesque toadlike form of Janet Yellin, is also refusing to let Congressional committees see the Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) the Treasury Department repeatedly issued about all the money from foreign gangsters and the CCP that flowed into Hunter and James Biden's bank accounts.

Chuck Ross at the Daily Caller:

The Treasury Department will not yet comply with congressional requests for Hunter Biden's banking records, the agency said Wednesday.

House Oversight and Accountability Committee chairman James Comer of Kentucky requested Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) detailing Hunter Biden's financial transactions in a Jan. 11 letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. The reports are taken by banks in accordance with federal law when deposits or withdrawals exceed $10,000 or may indicate criminal activity. Comer previously said he believes banks have taken out more than 150 reports on Hunter Biden and "other Biden family members."

Assistant Treasury Secretary for Legislative Affairs Jonathan Davidson told Comer on Wednesday that he failed to identify a purpose for the request.

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Comer and Oversight Republicans have also requested financial information about Hunter Biden's anonymous art sales. His paintings have been listed for as much as $225,000, and ethics experts have expressed concerns the sales could disguise influence-peddling.

"At the start of the Biden Administration, the Treasury Department changed longstanding policy to severely restrict Congress' access to suspicious activity reports. Now, Biden's Treasury Department appears to be going even further to restrict access. This coordinated effort by the Biden Administration to hide information about President Biden and his family's shady business schemes is alarming and raises many questions. We will continue to press for access to suspicious activity reports generated for the Biden family and their associates, and will use the power of the gavel to get them if needed," Comer said in a statement.

A report issued by Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin in 2020 found Hunter Biden's business dealings created "criminal, financial, counterintelligence, and extortion concerns." FBI Director Christopher Wray testified in August 2022 that Chinese payments to Biden could constitute a "malign foreign influence" campaign.

Via MxM, a solid aggregation app that doesn't skew leftwing.

posted by Lamont the Big Dummy at 03:11 PM

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