Global Courant
representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) raised eyebrows with a claim she made during a TV interview Thursday night.
Greene said she read a document in a SCIF — a sensitive compartmentalised information facility — related to allegations of bribery made by Republicans against the president Joe Biden But has yet to provide evidence.
She then described that document as she spoke Laura Ingraham on Fox news:
Greene said the document was “unclassified,” but a SCIF is typically only used for highly sensitive information. Legislators generally have to check all electronic devices before entering, and cannot take notes inside.
And most of the time, information revealed in the SCIF cannot be replicated outside of it.
But Greene – a conspiracy theorist and close ally of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) who has called for a “national divorce” And spoke at a white nationalist event last year – said she copied as much as she could when she left the SCIF.
“This is a document that all of America should be able to see, but the FBI is holding us back and they are only showing us in a SCIF,” she said. “Well, what I did after reading the document is I took notes as I walked out and went to the table.”
She held those notes to the camera.
“I wrote down everything I just read so I could come out and tell the American people what I read,” she said.
Her critics were baffled by what appeared to be a confession.
Mark Zaid, a lawyer specializing in national security, tweeted:
Others agreed too – and some were even more blunt: