Top lawmakers emerged from a classified briefing earlier this week unsatisfied by the answers they received from intelligence community and Justice Department officials. Their options for getting cooperation from those officials range from blocking nominees to threatening funding for key agencies.Sens.
Warner and Rubio, however, have led the public charge for more answers from the Biden administration. But Senate Intelligence lawmakers have said they have no interest in examining the legal exposure of Trump or Biden in those cases. Their only concern, they have said, is with the risks to national security that any of the classified documents may have posed if the wrong people encountered that information.
“I’m not in the threat business right now, but certainly there are things we need to do as a committee every year to authorize the moving around of funds,” he said. “I’d prefer not to go down that road, but it’s one of the pieces of leverage we have as Congress.” Senate lawmakers could subpoena top officials if talks about accommodating the Senate Intelligence Committee’s oversight requests do not bear fruit.
Subpoenas would represent an adversarial step in the quest for Senate lawmakers looking for information in the classified documents cases, and may not be the preferred course of Democrats in charge of committees in the upper chamber, but could elevate Senate lawmakers’ demands to a more urgent level.
Simple. Trump had them legally, Biden did not.
Typical Intelligence Community strategy and tactics!
So here we have a complete failure at oversight! Are the demonrats on the committee secretly undermining the effort?