After finding classified documents in President Joe Biden’s office and garage on Sunday, the Republican head of the House Oversight Committee ordered visitor records for the Wilmington, Delaware, residence.
Republican Chairman of House Oversight Committee, demands visitor logs for President Joe Biden’s house in Delaware
In a letter dated Sunday to White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, Representative James Comer stated
“Without a list of individuals who have visited his residence, the American people will never know who had access to these highly sensitive documents,”
Republican’s sought to compare Biden classified document’s case with Donald Trump’s case
Republicans have compared the Biden documents issue, which covers records from his time serving as vice president, to that of former President Donald Trump, who is under investigation by the federal government for handling classified records after leaving office in 2021. However, according to legal experts, the two situations are very different from one another.
Comer declared he would not look at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence’s visitor logs after an FBI search turned up more than 100 sensitive documents, some of which were marked as top secret.
“I don’t feel like we need to spend a whole lot of time because the Democrats have done that for the past six years,” he said in an interview Sunday with CNN.
Trump has declared that he will run for president once more in 2024, with Biden the expected Democratic challenger.
The Biden revelations came to light last week when his legal team claimed to have discovered secret records at the vice president’s Delaware residence during his time serving in the Obama administration. On Saturday, his attorneys claimed to have discovered five more pages at his residence.
According to CBS on Sunday, citing an unnamed law enforcement source, some of the 10 or so documents discovered at the Penn Biden Center think tank contained top secret information. Regarding the report, the White House made no comments. A request for comment was not answered by a spokeswoman for Bob Bauer, Biden’s personal attorney.
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Biden reinstates disclosures of official guests to the White House
U.S. presidents are not required by law to announce guests to their residence or the White House. In May 2021, the Biden administration disclosed its first batch of documents and reintroduced disclosures of official visitors to the White House. The practise had been stopped shortly after the former president Donald Trump entered office in 2017.
Trump & Biden document controversy deepens, divides political opinion in US
On Friday, Republicans in the US House of Representatives opened an inquiry into how the Justice Department handled Biden’s inappropriately held sensitive information. The case is also being examined by Comer’s committee.
Trump is currently the subject of a federal criminal investigation for improper handling of confidential documents after becoming president.
In the Biden case, the National Archives and Justice Department were notified by the president’s attorneys about the discovery of a small number of documents at a Washington think tank and later at Biden’s Wilmington home.
The National Archives unsuccessfully attempted to retrieve all of Trump’s records for more than a year after he left office. In January 2022, after 15 cartons of records had been withheld by Trump, Archives personnel learned they included sensitive information.
Trump’s attorneys provided fresh evidence from his Mar-a-Lago residence after the case was forwarded to the Justice Department and claimed there were no additional documents present.
That proved to be untrue. In the end, the FBI was able to retrieve 13,000 more documents from the estate, around 100 of which were classified.
The “Mar-a-Lago Act,” which would have required Trump to periodically reveal visitors to his Florida property, was sponsored by House Democrats in 2017, but it was never put to a vote in the chamber or by the entire Congress.
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