On 8/29/2022, during White House press conference, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that President Joe Biden has not been briefed on what national security problems the materials seized from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence possibly pose. She claimed not one person in the White House was briefed on the documents at Mar-a-Lago. A reporter asked Jean-Pierre whether Biden should “want to know the details” of what was included in Trump’s seized documents, if they pertain to “national security questions.” “This is just something that we are not informed on. This is something that is the independence of the Department of Justice. As it relates to [the Office of the Director of National Intelligence], we are not involved, we are not briefed, we are not aware.”
“When it comes to the ODNI, the letter, I can surely tell you that the president was not briefed on that,” she added. “When it comes to national security questions, and even classified materials, this is just something that we don’t speak to,” Jean-Pierre said. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told lawmakers in a letter that her office will lead an “assessment of the potential risk to national security that would result from the disclosure of the relevant documents.” “The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) are working together to facilitate a classification review of relevant materials, including those recovered during the search,” Haines wrote in the Friday letter.
“None of us have been briefed … We are just going to leave it to the Department of Justice and to ODNI,” Karine Jean-Pierre said. “We’re not going to say anything at this time while the investigation is going on,” she said. “We have not been involved in this matter,” Jean-Pierre said. She tried to avoid answering questions about any future developments in the investigation, any general views about declassification, or comments about the political impact. Biden himself has been less careful. “I just want you to know I’ve declassified everything in the world. I’m president, I can do — c’mon,” he told reporters Friday on the White House South Lawn.
White House Correspondents Association president CBS’s Steven Portnoy asked another question: if the Biden White House worked directly with the Justice Department and National Archives to facilitate the investigation into Trump’s handling of documents, according to memos reviewed by investigative reporter John Solomon. Jean-Pierre has repeatedly claimed the Biden White House did not instigate the investigation by eliminating Trump’s claims to executive privilege, although the decision to waive Trump’s executive privilege opened the door for the DOJ to issue Trump a subpoena to turn over documents stored at Mar-a-Lago. “only defer the decision … ” She said.
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Claims Not One Person in the White House Was Briefed on Mar-a-Lago docs, only defer executive privilege decision.