Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) 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,” the Florida Republican 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 told The Post.
In March, Special Counsel Robert Hur announced that he had opted against leveling criminal charges against the 81-year-old president over the scandal in part because Biden would come off as an “elderly man with poor memory’” at trial.
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.
Investigators found that Biden stashed documents classified up to the “Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information” level in boxes at his office at the Penn Biden Center think tank in Washington, DC, his Wilmington, Del., garage and in unlocked drawers and cabinets in the basement den of the home.
