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For: The opinion Posted Jan 16, 2023, 15:46 pm EST
The White House confirmed that there are no records of visitors to the private homes of President Joe Bidenin which various classified documents have been found, after the Republicans demanded their publication.
“Like all presidents through the decades of modern history, your personal residence is personal“, said in a statement the spokesman for the White House legal office, Ian Sams.
The official thus responded to the request of the president of the oversight and responsibility committee of the House of Representatives, Republican James Comer, who requested the publication of the visitor log of Biden’s residence in Wilmington (Delaware)where several classified documents from the time he was vice president (2009-2017) of Barack Obama have been found in recent weeks.
“Concerning that classified documents have been improperly stored in President Biden’s home for at least six years, raising questions about who may have reviewed or had access to the classified information,” Corner said in a letter sent to White House chief of staff Ron Klain in the which justifies the request in the “serious implications for national security.”
In the answer posted today, Sam explained that it is not White House practice to keep records of visitors to personal homes. of the presidents but those of the White House itself are carried out and published, after Biden “restored the norm and tradition”, since the previous administration (that of Donald Trump) decided to eliminate this practice that Obama also carried out .
During the past week the White House confirmed, on three occasions, the discovery of papers, a case that could complicate the last two years of Biden’s term before the next presidential elections of 2024, to which he has not yet confirmed whether he will appear.
Last Thursday, the United States Secretary of Justice, Merrick Garland, announced the appointment of a special prosecutor who will study everything found and their circumstances, the conservative lawyer Robert Hur.
Both the White House and Biden himself have insisted on their total willingness to collaborate in this investigation. and they have tried to distance themselves from former President Trump (2017-2021), who is also being investigated by the Department of Justice for accumulating classified documents at his residence in Mar-a-Lago (Florida), discovered after an FBI raid.
With information from Efe.
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