House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) asked the Secret Service on Monday to hand over any information about people who have visited President Joe Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware, home since he left the Obama administration in 2017.
“Given the White House’s lack of transparency regarding President Biden’s residential visitor logs, the Committee seeks information from the Secret Service regarding who had access to his home since serving as Vice President,” Comer wrote in a letter to Kimberly Cheatle, head of the Secret Service.
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The letter came days after the Secret Service reportedly signaled a willingness to cooperate with a congressional investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents.
Either Biden’s legal team or FBI agents have, on at least four occasions, discovered unsecured classified records in the Wilmington home — some dating all the way back to Biden’s time as a U.S. senator.
Much of the material is related to his time as vice president.
The White House said it kept no visitor logs for Biden’s private home in Wilmington.
While Biden’s team has touted its maintenance of visitor logs for the White House as a sign of its commitment to transparency, no logs appear to have been released since September, despite the White House indicating that it would publish the logs on a monthly basis.
The Secret Service conducts background checks on some people who visit the Wilmington residence and therefore has at least a partial list of who could have entered the home.
That information matters to congressional investigators because Biden kept some of the classified material in his garage and rooms within the home that visitors may have accessed.
Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, spent time living at the residence and conducting business overseas while classified records remained scattered in the home, raising concern among House Republicans who already planned to investigate Hunter Biden’s foreign consulting work.
The FBI took six “items” containing classified documents from Biden’s home on Friday during a more than 10-hour search, Biden’s personal attorney said; whether those items were boxes of documents or individual papers, the attorney has not yet clarified.
The White House has refused to answer basic questions about the number and nature of documents found in Wilmington and at Biden’s private office in Washington, D.C.
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Comer is leading one of two House Republican investigations into the classified documents saga that has come to overshadow much of the White House’s agenda.
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) is leading a separate investigation into how the Justice Department handled the Biden inquiry in its earliest days, and why Justice Department officials appear to have taken far more aggressive steps in a similar investigation involving former President Donald Trump.
