House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) is asking for visitor logs from President Biden’s Delaware residences after classified documents were discovered in the garage and oneĀ other room of his Wilmington home.
āIn light of the Biden familyās suspicious business schemes with foreign adversaries, Americans need to know who has visited President Bidenās Wilmington residence and had access to the stashed classified documents that sat in Bidenās garage,ā Comer wrote in a letter to White House counsel Stuart Delery.
āThe White House needs to release visitor logs to the public and bring transparency to this administration,ā the chairman added.
Number 3 House Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) is also calling for the release of the visitor logs, saying “every American deserves transparency.”
āWe already know Hunter Biden and his illegal ties and relationships with outside entities have threatened US national security, and House Republicans are leading the effort for accountability,ā Stefanik said. āNow, we must know why this administration continues to obstruct the truth on whether anyone else is influencing this administration.ā
āEvery American deserves transparency on who is meeting with this president ā especially as he has continued to hide from them in his basement in Delaware,ā she added. āHouse Republicans are committed to a government that is accountable, and we will conduct critical oversight into the entire Biden Crime Family.ā
FromĀ The New York Post:
White House spokespeople have defended Bidenās decision not to release visitor information, arguing in part that they mostly would show āthe comings and goings of the presidentās grandchildren.ā
Presidents can pick and choose what they reveal about White House visitor logs thanks to a 2013 DC Circuit appeals court ruling written by then-JudgeĀ Merrick Garland, who now serves as Bidenās attorney general. Garland wrote for a three-judge panel that the presidentās constitutional right to confidential communications means that FOIA doesnāt apply to visitor logs kept by the Secret Service ā even though they otherwise would seem to meet the definition of āagency records.ā
Garlandās ruling on White House visitor logs, however, has not been ratified by the Supreme Court, meaning that federal courts outside of DC are able to rule differently. The ruling also said nothing about Congress obtaining the records as part of its oversight duties.
More over at The New York Post:
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