The White House has issued a stunning statement in response to requests for visitor’s logs at one of President Joe Biden’s Delaware residences, where lawyers and officials have found classified documents haphazardly stored in his garage.
On Monday, White House officials said that no such visitor’s logs exist, meaning there is no record of just who may have been to Biden’s home and what they would have encountered when they were there.
“Like every President in decades of modern history, his personal residence is personal,” the White House Counsel’s office told Fox News. “But upon taking office, President Biden restored the norm and tradition of keeping White House visitors logs, including publishing them regularly, after the previous administration ended them.”
The Secret Service also said it does not keep logs of visitors to Biden’s home, though agents are posted there to guard it.
House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-KY) called on the White House over the weekend to release visitor records of Biden’s Wilmington home since the start of Biden’s presidency. He is also seeking additional information regarding the classified documents that have been discovered thus far in the interests of national security, the Daily Wire reported.
“It is troubling that classified documents have been improperly stored at the home of President Biden for at least six years, raising questions about who may have reviewed or had access to classified information,” Comer wrote in a letter to White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain. “Additionally, President Biden’s personal attorneys, who do not possess security clearances, and White House staff continue to access and search the President’s residence in Wilmington, Delaware for classified documents.”
“Given the serious national security implications, the White House must provide the Wilmington residence’s visitor log,” the congressman added.
Classified documents have been found in at least three batches at two different locations — at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C., in an office Biden used before becoming president, and at his home. The first set of docs were found in the D.C. location in the days before the midterm elections, but the Justice Department did not say anything and Attorney General Merrick Garland has yet to authorize an FBI raid on Biden’s properties like he did with former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in August.
“It is unclear what information was contained in the documents or how many were found in Biden’s locked garage. The classified materials are reported to have dated back to Biden’s time as vice president, which ended in January 2017,” the Daily Wire reported.
It’s also unclear if then-President Barack Obama declassified the documents Biden possessed because as VP, he didn’t have the authority.
