Transparency is clearly a joke for the Biden White House

Behind the scenes and anywhere beyond the Delaware border, there is nothing to see.

The Secret Service announced Monday that it has no visitor logs from Biden’s eastern White House — his Wilmington mansion and his Rehoboth Beach vacation home.

The White House refuses to release any information about Biden’s visitors to Delaware because “his private residence is private.”

But what if the private residence is also a crime scene?

There is no “Corvette exception” in federal law, which provides for up to 10 years in prison for gross negligence in possession of classified documents – as Biden apparently did in his Delaware home.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Kentucky) demands these records: “In light of the Biden family’s suspicious business dealings with foreign adversaries, Americans need to know who visited President Biden’s residence in Wilmington and had access to hidden classified documents. that was in Biden’s garage.”

At least some of the classified documents found in Delaware concerned Ukraine. Hunter Biden was living in the house at the time the secret documents were left in the garage.

He was paid generously for a seat on the board of directors of Burisma Holdings, a dubious Ukrainian energy company. Did Hunter, or anyone who visited the residence, use federal secrets for illegal gain?

Biden has spent 167 days at his Delaware residence since taking office. Even The Washington Post recognizes the Delaware mansion as “a de facto continuation of the White House.”

Who whispers in his ear or pulls the strings while he’s so far from the Oval Office? The White House says the Delaware visitor list will show little other than “the comings and goings of the president’s grandchildren.” Then why is the Biden team fiercely fighting disclosure?

The New York Post has repeatedly filed Freedom of Information Act requests for Biden’s visitor lists from Delaware, to no avail. In October, the Secret Service said it had not found “reply records”.

So the records didn’t speak aloud during the search, or what? No wonder journalists deride the Freedom of Information Act as the “Freedom of Information Act.”

In the past, Biden has taken to the barricades for visitor logs. Last year, former President Donald Trump tried to use executive privilege to protect the Jan. 6, 2021 White House visitor logs. Biden turned down the request because it “is not in the interests of the United States and is therefore unfounded.” But Delaware is different.

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Helpers can face the heat

When Biden took office, he promised “the highest standards of transparency.” But expecting frankness from this White House is like looking at the moon.

Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton stated, “If there are no records, the scandal is much more than just a lack of transparency.”

Did Biden program federal agents to destroy or never create any evidence that could incriminate himself or his appointees?

Perhaps Congressional investigators can bring down that stone wall of Delaware. If visitor records do not exist, Congress may “look for alternative sources of information, including interviewing employees and family members about past visitors,” said law professor Jonathan Turley. And unlike White House officials chatting at the pulpit, these employees can be prosecuted if they lie to investigators.

Biden never promised to drain the “Washington swamp” that made him rich and powerful. The Biden administration perpetuates the excessive secrecy that makes self-government a parody. Biden, like other recent presidents, admits that “what the people don’t know won’t hurt the government.”

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