WATCH: Kaine reiterates call for ‘necessary’ probe into Biden documents
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Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) continued his call for an investigation into President Joe Biden’s classified documents on Sunday.
Kaine appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation to comment as a senator sitting on the Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committee who, by admission has read classified documents only from a secure room where they remained when he was finished reading them. The senator emphasized that “an independent prosecutor and an investigation is necessary.”
“Government has a tendency to overclassify. If they are looking at a document and they have to analyze, then decide whether to classify, sometimes they just mark it classified,” Kaine said. “I’ll read it in the SCIF [Sensitive compartmented information facility] and say Margaret was reporting on that a month ago or The Washington Post has been telling me this for the last six months.”
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Sen. Tim Kaine on CNN
This comes two days since Kaine initially recommended an investigation into the discovery of classified documents at Biden’s home in a comment to Fox News. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), among others, have agreed that an investigation is appropriate.
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Kaine ran as vice presidential candidate alongside former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton during her 2016 campaign. Manchin and Kaine are also two senators up for re-election next year.