The Secret Service DOES have records of visitors to Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington

Ronald Kessler, a former investigative reporter for the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, is the author of 21 New York Times bestselling books, including ‘The First Family Tidbit: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of Presidents’

Both the White House and the Secret Service told reporters tracking President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents at his Wilmington residence that they do not keep records of visitors to his home because it is a personal residence.

“Like every president in decades of modern history, his personal residence is personal,” the White House Attorney’s Office said Monday.

In addition, Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the Secret Service, said the agency does not track people who visit a president’s personal home because it is a “private residence.”

That’s misleading at best.

In fact, the Secret Service keeps logs of visitors to the homes of all presidents and former presidents, including Biden’s home in Wilmington.

In an interview, Guglielmi acknowledged that before anyone visits the home of Biden or any other former president, the Secret Service performs a background check that generates electronic records about the visit and the results of the background check.

Those records are never deleted.

Guglielmi told DailyMail.com that he never intended to deceive. When asked for comment by reporters, he said he explained how guests and workers entering the homes of Biden and other former presidents are screened.

While visit logs are not kept like the White House, electronic records are generated and maintained, but reporters tended to skip the full story, he said.

As with the Biden home, anyone visiting former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home or entering its grounds must first provide details of their identity so that a background check can be conducted. Verification is part of what is called the Access Control Procedure.

And on Friday, Fox News revealed that the Secret Service is prepared to hand over the names of Biden’s Wilmington visitors, if requested by Congress.

“When a visitor is coming to Biden’s Wilmington home, his staff notifies the Secret Service and provides details about the visitor’s identity,” says Norm Jarvis, a former Secret Service agent.

“An electronic check is carried out to discover criminal records, arrest warrants or contact with a foreign intelligence service. Electronic background check and visit records are never deleted.’

Once the individual is cleared, they must show some form of identification upon arrival, Jarvis says.

There has only been one exception to the rules. At the direction of former President Clinton, he removed the requirement that visitors to his Chappaqua home register and undergo a Secret Service background check when the visitor was a female Secret Service agents whose code name was joked it was Energizer.

As revealed in ‘The first family detail’ one Secret Service agent recalled that when he was first assigned to protect Bill Clinton in Chappaqua, a supervisor walked him through the complex, showing him all the security stations and describing how to work at each one.

“At the entry point, where there is a guardhouse, they gave me instructions on what to do when a visitor arrives,” the agent said. “Gather, collect and maintain a form of photo identification, record them in the guest book and make sure they are on the list to enter,” he said.

“If they weren’t, there’s someone you could call,” the agent said. ‘There is a certain protocol that you follow, and it was written with everything you do. And as he was being instructed by the supervisor, he told me: “Except that there is one that you do not record in the book: the blonde.”

Smiling, the agent asked: ‘What do you mean?’

‘Well, you’ll know,’ said the supervisor. “Maybe in her forties, she’s attractive, blonde, tan,” the supervisor said. He said that she lived nearby and drove a pickup truck.

‘When she comes in, you don’t search her,’ the supervisor instructed. ‘You don’t take identification from her.’

Nor, he said, should the agent run his name, date of birth and Social Security number through the criminal databases the Secret Service uses to verify arrests, outstanding warrants and other potential problems, such as contact with a foreign intelligence service.

No other exceptions were to be made, whether they were landscapers, Clinton employees, or family members. Only the president and vice president are exempt from such security checks.

“If we find out ahead of time, we’ll call you and tell you to open the door for you,” the supervisor said. You don’t stop her, you don’t approach her, you just let her in.

As the newly assigned agent began talking to other agents at the command post located above the Clintons’ detached garage, he learned his colleagues’ unofficial code name for the woman: Energizer.

The code name beginning with ‘E’ followed Secret Service protocol: When assigning code names to a protégé’s family, the Secret Service chooses names that begin with the same letter. So, Bill Clinton is Eagle. When she was protected, Chelsea Clinton was Energy.

As a former first lady protected by the Secret Service, Hillary Clinton goes by the code name Evergreen.

Every time Hillary left town, Energizer would arrive.

“It was kind of fun,” said another agent who was assigned to Chappaqua. ‘She [Hillary] I would go out, and the lady would arrive a few minutes later. Obviously, someone has made a phone call.

“The mistress would sometimes show up moments after Hillary left,” a third agent said.

“I let her in the front door many times,” another[1] said the agent. “Normally, we had a driver’s license or other form of photo identification when visitors were at the residence. The identification was kept in the guardhouse at the front gate which we manned 24/7. Not so in your case.

“I would go into John Doe, the lawn maintenance contractor, or members of his staff, and check them out, but you’ll never see an Energizer record anywhere,” the first agent said.