New York Post

GOPer: Assess Joe doc damage

- Victor Nava

A Republican congressma­n on Wednesday called for a “damage assessment” to be conducted after viewing portions of the classified documents President Biden stored in the basement of his Delaware home.

“I just reviewed a portion of Biden’s classified documents that were taken from his basement by Special Counsel Hur,” Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) wrote on X.

The material in the documents — which date back to Biden’s long tenure in the Senate and his eight years as vice president — was still pertinent to existing threats, according to Waltz.

“They were HIGHLY CLASSIFIED and relevant to current national-security threats,” the House Intelligen­ce Committee member said. “We need an immediate damage assessment from the Intelligen­ce Community,” he added, calling on federal agencies to review the risks to the nation that Biden’s mishandlin­g of the documents posed.

The documents viewed by Waltz were related to Intelligen­ce Community-derived informatio­n provided to Biden, and lawmakers are still fighting for access to White House-derived classified memos and documents, a person familiar with the matter told The Post.

In March, special counsel Robert Hur announced that he had opted against criminal charges against the 81year-old president.

Hur’s investigat­ion uncovered that Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials” as a private citizen.

“These materials included (1) marked classified documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanista­n, and (2) notebooks containing Mr. Biden’s handwritte­n entries about issues of national security and foreign policy implicatin­g sensitive intelligen­ce sources and methods,” the special counsel’s report stated.

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