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 one other room of his Wilmington home.
“In light of the Biden family’s suspicious business schemes with foreign adversaries, Americans need to know who has visited President Biden’s Wilmington residence and had access to the stashed classified documents that sat in Biden’s garage,” Comer wrote in a letter to White House counsel Stuart Delery.
“The White House needs to release visitor logs to the public and bring transparency to this administration,” 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.”
“We 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,” Stefanik said. “Now, we must know why this administration continues to obstruct the truth on whether anyone else is influencing this administration.”
“Every American deserves transparency on who is meeting with this president — especially as he has continued to hide from them in his basement in Delaware,” she added. “House Republicans are committed to a government that is accountable, and we will conduct critical oversight into the entire Biden Crime Family.”
From The New York Post:
White House spokespeople have defended Biden’s decision not to release visitor information, arguing in part that they mostly would show “the comings and goings of the president’s grandchildren.”
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-Judge Merrick Garland, who now serves as Biden’s attorney general. Garland wrote for a three-judge panel that the president’s constitutional right to confidential communications means that FOIA doesn’t apply to visitor logs kept by the Secret Service — even though they otherwise would seem to meet the definition of “agency records.”
Garland’s 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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