WASHINGTON — Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said the agency will conduct a damage assessment of the documents that were removed from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in a letter to congressional lawmakers Friday, obtained by NBC News Saturday.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, or DNI, which oversees the CIA, the National Security Agency and 16 other agencies, will “lead an Intelligence Community assessment of the potential risk to national security that would result from the disclosure of the relevant documents,” director Avril Haines wrote.

The DNI and Department of Justice are "working together to facilitate a classification review of relevant materials, including those recovered during the search," Haines added, and both teams will coordinate closely to ensure the assessment doesn’t interfere with DOJ’s ongoing criminal investigation.

The letter, first reported by Politico, was addressed to House Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and House Oversight Committee chair Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., who had both asked for a security damage assessment days after the FBI searched Trump's Florida club on Aug. 8. The Senate intelligence committee has also asked for a damage assessment as well as further details about the substances of the documents but is yet to receive any.

“I suspect that the Biden administration is being super careful right now not to appear to be involved beyond the independent FBI and Justice Department,” a former senior intelligence official told NBC News earlier this month.