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A Secret Service spokesperson has since said visitor logs aren't even kept for Biden's personal home.
House Republicans have demanded access to visitor logs for Joe Biden's Delaware home to determine both who would have had access to classified documents found in the president's garage as well as how they got there.

The White House on Saturday said it had discovered five additional pages of classified documents at his home on Thursday, the same day a special counsel was appointed to review the matter.

The demands made by the newly empowered Republicans were spearheaded by Kentucky Representative James Comer, who said: 'We have a lot of questions.'

They want records of everyone who visited the Biden compound from January 2021 onwards - when he was inaugurated as president.

However, answers to those questions may not be forthcoming as a Secret Service spokesperson has since said visitor logs aren't even kept for Biden's personal home.

Comer, who is now the chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, said he also wants to see before the end of the month all documents and correspondence related to searches in the president's Wilmington home between the inauguration date of January 20, 2021, right up until January 2023.

In a letter on Sunday to White House chief of staff Ron Klain, Comer criticized the searches by Biden representatives when the Justice Department began investigating and said Biden's 'mishandling of classified materials raises the issue of whether he has jeopardized our national security.'

On CNN's 'State of the Union,' Comer referred to Biden's home as a 'crime scene' but acknowledged that it was not clear if laws had been broken.

'My concern is that the special counsel was called for, but yet hours after that we still had the president's personal attorneys, who have no security clearance, still rummaging around the president's residence, looking for things - I mean that would essentially be a crime scene, so to speak,' Comer said.

While the US Secret Service provides security at the president's private residence, it does not maintain visitor logs, agency spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said on Sunday.

'We don't independently maintain our own visitor logs because it's a private residence,' Guglielmi said. He said that the agency does screen visitors to the president's properties but doesn't maintain records of those checks.

The White House also confirmed that Biden has not independently maintained records of who has visited his residence since becoming president.

'Like every President in decades of modern history, his personal residence is personal,' White House spokesman Ian Sams said.

'But upon taking office, President Biden restored the norm and tradition of keeping White House visitors logs, including publishing them regularly, after the previous administration ended them.'

Asked about Comer's request for logs and communications regarding the search for documents, Sams responded: 'I would simply refer you to what Congressman Comer himself told CNN this morning: "At the end of the day, my biggest concern isn't the classified documents to be honest with you." That says it all.'

In that CNN interview, Comer said House Republicans did not trust the Justice Department to conduct a proper investigation.

President Donald Trump's administration announced early in his presidency that they wouldn't release visitor logs out of 'grave national security risks and privacy concerns of the hundreds of thousands of visitors annually.'

Barack Obama's administration initially fought attempts by Congress and conservative and liberal groups to obtain visitor records.

After being sued, it voluntarily began disclosing the logs in December 2009, posting records every three to four months.

A federal appeals court ruled in 2013 that the logs can be withheld under presidential executive privilege. That unanimous ruling was written by Judge Merrick Garland, who is now serving as Biden's attorney general.

White House officials 'can say they're being transparent, but it's anything but,' the committee chairman, Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, told Fox News Channel's Sunday Morning Futures.

White House lawyer Richard Sauber said in a statement on Saturday that a total of six pages of classified documents were found from Biden's time serving as vice president in the Obama administration during the search of his private library.

The White House had previously said only a single page was found there.

The latest disclosure was in addition to the discovery of documents found in December in Biden's garage and in November at his former offices at the Penn Biden Center in Washington.

Sauber said that Biden's personal lawyers, who did not have security clearances, stopped their search after finding the first page on Wednesday evening.

Sauber found the remaining material on Thursday, as he was facilitating their retrieval by Justice Department. Sauber did not explain why the White House waited two days to provide an updated accounting.

The White House is already facing scrutiny for waiting more than two months to acknowledge the discovery of the initial group of documents at the Biden office.

Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, said the Justice Department rightfully appointed special counsels to 'get to the bottom' of the issue, as they had done with regarding Trump's mishandled documents in Mar-a-Lago.

But Raskin also attempted to argue the two cases were quite different. He said Biden's team handed over documents to the National Archives whereas Trump resisted requests for cooperation.

'We should keep a sense of proportion and measure about what we´re talking about,' Raskin told CNN.

Asked on Sunday if his oversight committee would investigate Trump's handling of classified documents as well, Comer showed doubts.

'There have been so many investigations of President Trump, I don´t feel like we need to spend a whole lot of time investigating President Trump, because the Democrats have done that for the past six years,' he said.