


The White House has finally granted Congress’ so-called “Gang of Eight” access to classified documents found in recent months at the homes of former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence, as well as at the Delaware home and former Washington, DC, office of President Biden.
The documents — which were either seized by the FBI or handed over voluntarily in the past seven months — were made available following repeated criticism from Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Mark Warner (D-Va.) and vice chairman Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), according to Punchbowl News.
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Warner blasted the White House last month for not disclosing the contents of papers taken from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate and Biden’s residence and office — even warning that the committee could “use other tools” such as a congressional subpoena to find out the information.
“The Biden administration gets an absolute failing grade,” Warner told MSNBC at the time “We’ve seen squat … I’m not a guy that comes on TV and makes threats, but I’m joining with my Republican colleagues and my colleagues, Democrat and Republican, in the House. This position cannot stand.”

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In addition to Warner and Rubio, the “Gang of Eight” includes Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), and House intelligence committee chair Mike Turner (R-Ohio) and ranking member Jim Himes (D-Conn.).
Representatives for the members did not respond to requests for comment.
The Justice Department had previously stonewalled requests from lawmakers to review the documents, citing concerns about revealing details of an ongoing criminal investigation.
Warner and Rubio, however, said the committee’s requests were “narrowly tailored” and would not threaten ongoing investigations, according to a March letter the lawmakers sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines.
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Garland has appointed special counsels Jack Smith and Robert Hur to investigate the Trump and Biden documents, respectively, as their retention likely violated the Presidential Records Act and may have compromised US national security.



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Some documents from Biden’s days in the Obama White House were found in his Wilmington, Del. garage, which photos show Hunter Biden accessed during a period when the now-first son was striking shady business deals with foreign entities.
Federal agents also took around 300 classified documents from Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8 after Trump kept boxes of materials demanded by the National Archives.
Biden’s attorneys also discovered documents at the president’s former Penn Biden Center office in Washington days before last year’s midterm elections — but the discovery was not reported until January.



Pence turned over two boxes of classified documents to the FBI in January but later had his home searched by agents who recovered an additional document.
The White House repeatedly deflected congressional and press inquiries into the matter in recent months, saying in March that the oversight was a “disagreement” that “happens all the time” with members of Congress.