Biden Classified Documents: GOP Urges Access to POTUS' Visitors Log

Newly empowered House Republicans demanded that the White House turn over any material connected to its searches that unearthed classified documents at President Joe Biden's home and old office following the discovery of more records at his Delaware home.

Rep. James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, stated, "We have a lot of questions."

Biden's Classified Documents

Comer has requested documents and correspondence relating to the Biden team's searches and visitors log of the president's house in Wilmington, Delaware, from January 20, 2021, until the present. He stated that the objective is to establish who may have had access to classified documents and how the data were obtained.

The White House announced on Saturday that it uncovered five additional classified pages at Biden's residence on Thursday, the same day a special counsel was hired to investigate the problem.

In a letter written to White House chief of staff Ron Klain on Sunday, Comer condemned the searches conducted by Biden associates as the Justice Department was commencing its investigation and questioned whether Biden had compromised national security by mishandling sensitive data.

By the end of the month, Comer ordered that the White House submit all pertinent information, including visitor records, as per News18. On CNN's 'State of the Union,' Comer referred to Biden's residence as a "crime scene" although admitting that it was unclear whether any laws were violated.

According to agency spokesman Anthony Guglielmi, the US Secret Service must maintain visitor logs at the president's private house. The White House has verified that Biden has not kept independent records of who has visited his home since he became president.

Indeed, early in President Donald Trump's administration, it was declared that visitor records would not be released due to "severe national security implications and privacy issues for the hundreds of thousands of yearly visits."

The Democratic administration of Barack Obama initially resisted efforts by Congress and conservative and liberal groups to get visitor information. However, following a lawsuit, the company began freely revealing the logs in December 2009, uploading data every three to four months.

In 2013, a federal appeals court determined that the logs may be suppressed based on presidential executive privilege. This unanimous decision was authored by Judge Merrick Garland, currently Biden's attorney general.