When several classified papers were found at President Joe Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware, residence, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) recently wrote to White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain asking for access to Biden’s visitor logs.
Commer expressed his worries in a letter to Klain on Sunday, writing, “Classified materials have been inappropriately maintained at the house of President Biden for at least six years, raising issues about who may have seen or accessed classified information.” In this letter, Biden discusses the committee’s and the DOJ’s continuing inquiry into his handling of secret materials.
Since the initial papers were discovered at Biden’s Delaware residence last week, the Oversight chairman has been vocal about the threat to national security posed by Biden’s employees and attorneys, who may not have clearances and appear to be continuing their search for more classified information.
He told Klain that disclosing the number of visitors to the President at his Wilmington house would have “major national security ramifications” and that the White House was thus compelled to do so. The letter instructed Chief of Staff John Kelly to “notify the American people of the White House’s treatment of this problem.” Kelly reports directly to the President as the head of the President’s Executive Office.
Comer suggests that Biden’s negligent handling of classified material has jeopardized national security. No record of who has visited his apartment means “the American people would never know who had access to this incredibly confidential material,” to say.
President Joe Biden’s house in Delaware and his office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, both had classified materials found in them this past week.
According to a Saturday New York Times article, Comer’s legal team allegedly found more than 25 items while investigating Biden’s Delaware home for missing papers. This is an article by Wendell Husebo for Breitbart News:
After the White House said Thursday that one copy had been found in a storage space outside Biden’s garage at his Wilmington home, the New York Times reported that more documents had been found hours later.
Unauthorized members of the President’s legal team uncovered key evidence on Wednesday and turned it over to the Justice Department the following day.
On Saturday, Bob Bauer, an attorney for Joe Biden, stated that his client’s legal team “did not have security clearances,” which is why “they cleared the area and did not proceed farther” after reading the classified information on a single page.
Comer was worried that the DOJ was looking into a visit to the President’s home in Delaware by attorneys for President Biden and staff from the White House. There should be an investigation of “anyone with foreign ties to the Biden family,” the president’s home, and the classified materials he has mishandled for years. Therefore, analytics for the site must be made available.
Klain was given until January 20, 2021, to hand over “any records and communications involving searches of President Biden’s home(s) and other places by Biden personnel for classified information,” as stated in a letter dated December 20, 2018. Logs of visitors, dates of searches, and the identity of Biden’s staff members who carried them out are all records that have been questioned. Before January 30, 2023, please send all materials to Comer.