Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) raised eyebrows with a declare she made all through a TV interview on Thursday night.
Greene mentioned she learn a record within a SCIF ― a delicate compartmented knowledge facility ― associated with bribery allegations Republicans have made towards President Joe Biden however haven’t begun to offer proof for.
Then, she described that record whilst chatting with Laura Ingraham on Fox Information:
Greene mentioned the record was once “unclassified,” however a SCIF is normally used just for very delicate knowledge. Lawmakers most often should take a look at all digital units earlier than coming into, and can’t take notes whilst within.
And normally, knowledge printed within the SCIF can’t be repeated outdoor of it.
However Greene ―a conspiracy theorist and shut best friend of Area Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) who has referred to as for a “nationwide divorce” and spoke closing yr at a white nationalist tournament ― mentioned she copied up to she may as soon as she left the SCIF.
“It is a record that every one of The united states will have to have the ability to see, however the FBI is stonewalling us and they might handiest allow us to see it in a SCIF,” she mentioned. “Neatly what I did after studying the record is I made notes once I walked out and I went as much as the desk.”
She held up the ones notes to the digital camera.
“I wrote down the whole lot that I had simply learn in order that I may pop out and inform the American other people what I learn,” she mentioned.
Her critics had been baffled by way of what gave the impression of a confession.
Mark Zaid, an legal professional who makes a speciality of nationwide safety, tweeted:
Others additionally chimed in ― and a few had been much more blunt: