众议院情报委员会前主席、众议员亚当·希夫周日表示，机密文件最近被发现为乔·拜登总统所有需要评估其对国家安全的影响。
“我不认为在不了解更多事实的情况下，我们可以排除这种可能性，”这位加州民主党人说谈到拜登的文件时说在美国广播公司的“本周”节目中，当主持人乔纳森·卡尔问及任何国家安全风险时。
希夫说，他希望从情报部门获得更多关于文件细节的信息，并指出，他希望得到关于机密材料宝藏的类似细节从前总统唐纳德·特朗普的Mar-a-Lago度假村恢复.
“我们已经要求情报机构对Mar-a-Lago文件进行评估，”希夫说。“我认为我们应该对在智囊团和拜登总统家中发现的文件进行同样的评估。我想知道这些文件是什么。我想知道(情报界)的评估是什么，是否有暴露的风险，会有什么危害，以及是否需要采取任何缓解措施。”
从上周开始，白宫在一系列声明中承认，拜登的律师在11月份发现了他担任副总统期间的机密记录，当时他们正在华盛顿特区的一个旧办公室整理他的文件
根据白宫的说法，拜登团队的进一步搜查在他位于特拉华州威尔明顿的家中发现了分类记录。白宫在司法部正在调查的消息中向公众披露了此事。
他的助手强调，总统正在合作，他的律师在秋天很快将这个问题提交给了国家档案馆。
在“本周”节目中，卡尔问希夫，鉴于最初的文件在2022年中期选举前被发现，已经拖延了两个月，白宫是否足够合作。
“我认为政府需要回答这个问题。希夫说:“我将保留判断，直到他们这样做。
他说，他认为司法部长梅里克·加兰(Merrick Garland)做出了正确的决定，任命一名特别顾问来审查拜登对敏感文件的处理——内布拉斯加州共和党众议员唐·培根(Don Bacon)和佐治亚州民主党参议员拉斐尔·沃诺克(Raphael Warnock)也表达了这一观点，他们周日也出现在“本周”节目上。
“总检察长必须确保不仅公正地实施司法，而且司法的表象也要让公众满意。在这方面，我认为他别无选择，只能任命一名特别顾问，”希夫说。"我认为特别顾问会做适当的评估."
但是，他说，“我仍然希望看到国会做出自己的评估，并接受情报界的评估，看看这些文件是否暴露给了其他人，这些文件是否对国家安全造成了危害。”
希夫批评新的众议院监督委员会主席詹姆斯卡莫，R-Ky。，谁有通知拜登白宫一项国会调查但去年表示，查看特朗普对机密文件的处理“不会是优先事项。”
“当你考虑到他对Mar-a-Lago局势所说的话时，这些(对拜登白宫的)要求完全是虚伪的。我认为国会应该以同样的方式处理这两种情况，”希夫说。
希夫说，虽然“拜登政府应该配合国会的任何适当调查”，但监督努力不应被用作政治障碍。
“国会不应该试图干涉调查。很遗憾，我认为这正是卡莫先生的目标，”希夫说。
Biden classified documents need to be reviewed for national security risks, Schiff says
Rep. Adam Schiff, a former chair of the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday that classified documents recently discovered to be in President Joe Biden's possession from his time as vice president need to be assessed for their national security implications.
"I don't think we can exclude the possibility without knowing more of the facts," the California Democrat said of the Biden documents during an appearance on ABC's "This Week" when pressed by co-anchor Jonathan Karl about any national security risks.
Schiff said that he would like to see more information from the intelligence community on the details of the documents, noting that he expects similar details regarding the trove of classified materials that were recovered from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.
"We have asked for an assessment in the intelligence community of the Mar-a-Lago documents," Schiff said. "I think we ought to get that same assessment of the documents found in the think tank as well as the home of President Biden. I'd like to know what these documents were. I'd like to know what the [intelligence community's] assessment is, whether there was any risk of exposure and what the harm would be and whether any mitigation needs to be done."
Beginning last week, the White House acknowledged in a series of statements that Biden's attorneys in November found classified records from his time as vice president while they were packing up his files at an old office in Washington, D.C.
Further searches by Biden's team found classified records at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, according to the White House, which disclosed the matter to the public amid news that the Department of Justice was investigating.
The president is cooperating and his lawyers quickly flagged the issue to the National Archives in the fall, his aides have stressed.
On "This Week," Karl asked Schiff whether the White House had been forthcoming enough, given the two-month delay since the initial documents were discovered before the 2022 midterm election.
"I think the administration will need to answer that question. I'm going to reserve judgment until they do," Schiff said.
He said he thought Attorney General Merrick Garland made the right decision to appoint a special counsel to review Biden's handling of the sensitive documents -- a view echoed by Republican Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska and Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia, who also appeared on "This Week" on Sunday.
"The attorney general has to make sure that not only is justice evenly applied, but the appearances of justice are also satisfactory to the public. And here, I don't think he had any choice but to appoint a special counsel," Schiff said. "And I think that special counsel will do the proper assessment."
But, he said, "I still would like to see Congress do its own assessment of and receive an assessment from the intelligence community of whether there was an exposure to others of these documents, whether there was harm to national security in the case of either set of documents with either president."
Schiff criticized new House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., who has notified the Biden White House of a congressional probe but said last year that looking at Trump's handling of classified documents "will not be a priority."
"Those requests [to the Biden White House] are completely hypocritical when you consider what he said about the Mar-a-Lago situation. I think Congress ought to handle both situations the same way," Schiff said.
And while "the Biden administration ought to cooperate with any appropriate inquiry from Congress," Schiff said, oversight efforts shouldn't be used as political roadblocks.
"Congress shouldn't try to interfere with the investigations. I think, sadly, that's what Mr. Comer's object is," Schiff said.
