The chairman of the House Select Committee has hinted that the panel may have learned important information from the documents released by the National Archives and Records Administration.
"The president has determined that an assertion of executive privilege is not in the best interest of the United States, and therefore is not justified, as to these records and portions of records," Remus wrote in a letter last month to National Archivist David Ferriero.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference at The Rosen Shingle Creek last month in Orlando, Florida. CPAC, which began in 1974, is an annual political conference attended by conservative activists and elected officials.Remus noted that the Biden administration, as a matter of transparency, have released its logs monthly, as have other administrations.
According to government ethics expert Norman Eisen, the visitor logs are essential to the January 6 committee's investigation. Eisen served as White House"ethics czar," as special counsel and special assistant to the president for ethics and government reform, from 2009 to 2011. He also served as U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic from 2011 to 2014.
Eisen says the visitor logs contain a great deal of information about each person who entered the White House during Trump's presidency, including the time they entered, the purpose of the visit and who they saw.