Report: Secret Service reveals visitor records from Biden residence
The Secret Service is reportedly poised to reverse course and disclose visitor records to President Joe Biden’s residence in Wilmington, where the president’s personal lawyers discovered classified documents.
While the Secret Service claims it does not keep visitor logs of everyone who entered the Biden home, the Secret Service does keep a record of those who “make contact” with the places the agency guards. According to Fox News, these are the magazines that the Secret Service is willing to hand over to Congress.
“The Secret Service does not keep logs of visits to private residences of security guards,” said the head of the secret service for public relations, Anthony Guglielmi. “While the Secret Service maintains law enforcement and criminal justice information records for various individuals who may come into contact with Secret Service protected sites, we cannot comment further as it relates to the means and methods of our protective operations.”
The report appears to contradict the agency’s previous statement to the Associated Press. “We don’t keep visitation logs ourselves because this is a private residence,” Guglielmi said on January 16.
Similarly, the White House confirmed to the AP that Biden kept no record of who visited his home. “Like every president in modern history, his private residence is private,” White House spokesman Ian Sams said.
Joe Biden may have tweeted a photo of classified documents “securely” stored in his garage next to his corvette. pic.twitter.com/puI4SE0NKk
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The visit logs of the Biden residence in Wilmington are being sought by the House Oversight Committee as it is unclear who other than Hunter Biden had access to classified documents at the Biden home.
“Given the serious national security implications, the White House should provide a visitor’s log to the Wilmington residence,” Rep. James Comer (R-KY) wrote to the White House. “It is worrying that classified documents have been improperly stored at President Biden’s home for at least six years, raising questions about who may have viewed or had access to classified information.”
The report comes after the White House and the Justice Department agreed to keep the classified documents scandal from the American people until it was leaked to the press, despite their repeated claims of transparency, according to Washington Post. The White House announced full transparency after the fact.
Critics wonder why Biden’s personal attorneys were looking for illegally hidden documents in the first place. The White House was unable to give an initial reason or motive for the search.
Sixty percent of Americans believe Biden mishandled classified material related to Ukraine, Iran and the United Kingdom, according to a Quinnipiac poll Wednesday.
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