在众议院共和党人要求白宫交出乔·拜登总统位于特拉华州威尔明顿的家的访客记录后机密文件被发现了白宫周日表示，这样的记录并不存在。
白宫法律顾问办公室发言人在一份声明中说:“与现代历史上几十年来每位总统的先例一致，他的私人住宅是私人的。”“但在上任后，拜登总统恢复了保留白宫访客日志的规范和传统，包括在前任政府结束后定期公布这些日志。”
美国特勤局发言人安东尼·古列尔米(Anthony Guglielmi)告诉美国广播公司新闻，他们也没有保留私人住宅的访客日志，尽管特勤局确实为访客提供安全检查。
古列尔米说，该机构有权访问白宫和副总统官邸等官方政府建筑的访客记录。那些访客记录由国家档案馆保存。
在周日给白宫办公厅主任罗恩·克莱恩的一封信中，众议员詹姆斯·卡莫。新任众议院监督委员会主席要求查看从拜登就职至今威尔明顿住所的访客记录，截止日期为1月30日。
卡莫写道，该委员会还在寻找与拜登住所搜查相关的所有文件，“以及拜登助手在其他地方搜查机密文件的情况”。
“拜登总统对机密材料的不当处理引发了他是否危及我们国家安全的问题，”卡莫写道。“没有一份访问过他住所的人的名单，美国人民永远不会知道谁接触过这些高度敏感的文件。”
白宫发言人伊恩·萨姆斯最初向美国广播公司承认了这封信，但没有直接表示政府是否会遵守。
白宫新闻秘书郭佳欣·让-皮埃尔拒绝实质性地回答关于此事的问题，将几乎所有关于机密文件的询问都转给了白宫法律顾问办公室和正在调查的司法部。
拜登的律师表示，拜登担任副总统期间的机密文件在华盛顿特区的一间前办公室以及他在威尔明顿的家中被发现。
他的一名律师上周表示:“我们相信，彻底的审查将表明这些文件被无意中放错了地方，总统和他的律师在发现这一错误后立即采取了行动。”
拜登的律师也强调，他正在合作，并在发现文件后归还了文件。
Comer上周还要求国家档案馆提供该机构，白宫和司法部之间关于在拜登办公室发现的机密文件的所有通信。美国广播公司新闻已经询问国家档案馆是否计划遵从监督委员会的要求。
卡莫写给白宫和国家档案馆的信没有附带传票。
拜登周一从特拉华州返回华盛顿，并忽略了有关文件和调查的进一步问题。司法部长梅里克·加兰周四表示，他将任命罗伯特·胡尔为特别顾问，调查拜登对机密材料的处理。
上周末，白宫特别顾问理查德·索伯(Richard Sauber)表示，除了周三发现的一页文件外，还有五页机密文件于周四在威尔明顿被发现，目前在司法部手中。
众议院三号民主党人、密歇根州参议员黛比·斯塔贝诺(Debbie Stabenow)称这场争议“肯定令人尴尬”。
“令人尴尬的是，你会发现少量文件，肯定不是故意的。他们认为这是不对的，他们一直在努力纠正，与司法部、所有相关人员和档案馆合作。所以从我的角度来看，你知道，这是他们显然希望没有发生的那些时刻之一，”她周日在NBC的“会见媒体”上说
“但我最担心的是，”斯塔贝诺补充道，“这是共和党人喜欢的事情。”
众议院议长凯文·麦卡锡上周表示，他认为国会应该在调查此事上发挥作用，独立于司法部。
No visitor logs exist for Biden's private home, where classified documents found, White House says
After House Republicans demanded the White House turn over a log of visitors from President Joe Biden's home in Wilmington, Delaware, where classified documents have been discovered, the White House said Sunday that such a record does not exist.
"Consistent with past precedent of every President across decades of modern history, his personal residence is personal," a White House counsel's office spokesperson said in a statement. "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."
U.S. Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told ABC News that they also do not maintain visitor logs of private residences, though the Secret Service does provide security screenings for visitors.
The agency has access to the visitor logs of official government buildings such as the White House and the vice president's residence, Guglielmi said. Those visitor logs are kept by the National Archives.
In a letter to White House chief of staff Ron Klain on Sunday, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the new House Oversight Committee chairman, requested visitors logs at the Wilmington residence dating from Biden's inauguration to the present, with a deadline of Jan. 30.
The committee is also seeking all documents related to the search of Biden's homes "and other locations by Biden aides for classified documents," Comer wrote.
"President Biden's mishandling of classified materials raises the issue of whether he has jeopardized our national security," Comer wrote. "Without a list of individuals who have visited his residence, the American people will never know who had access to these highly sensitive documents."
White House spokesman Ian Sams initially acknowledged the letter to ABC News but did not directly say if the administration would comply.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has declined to substantively answer questions on the matter, referring nearly all inquiries on the classified documents to the White House counsel's office and the Justice Department, which is investigating.
Biden's attorneys have said that classified documents from Biden's time as vice president were found at a former office in Washington, D.C., as well as at his home in Wilmington.
A lawyer for him said last week: "We are confident that a thorough review will show that these documents were inadvertently misplaced, and the President and his lawyers acted promptly upon discovery of this mistake."
Biden's attorneys have also stressed that he is cooperating and returned the documents after they were found.
Comer last week also asked the National Archives to provide all communications between the agency, the White House and the Justice Department regarding the classified documents discovered at Biden's office at the Penn Biden Center. ABC News has asked the National Archives if it plans to comply with the request from the Oversight Committee.
Comer's letters to the White House and the National Archives were not accompanied by subpoenas.
Biden returned to Washington from Delaware on Monday and ignored further questions on the documents and the investigation. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday said he was appointing Robert Hur as special counsel to investigate Biden's handling of the classified materials.
Over the weekend, White House special counsel Richard Sauber said that five more classified pages -- in addition to a one-page document discovered on Wednesday -- were found on Thursday in Wilmington and are now in the Justice Department's possession.
Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow, the No. 3 Democrat in the chamber, called the controversy "certainly embarrassing."
"It's embarrassing that you would find a small number of documents, certainly not on purpose. They don't think it's the right thing and they've been moving to correct it, working with the Department of Justice, working with everyone involved, with the archives. And so from my perspective, you know, it's one of those moments that obviously they wish hadn't happened," she said on Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."
"But what I'm most concerned about," Stabenow added, "this is the kind of thing that the Republicans love."
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said last week that he sees Congress having a role in investigating the matter, separate from the Justice Department.
