Biden’s dog Commander bit Secret Service agents across 24 incidents

Joe Biden’s dog Commander attacked and bit US Secret Service agents in at least 24 incidents at the White House and his residence, according to newly released documents.

US Secret Service records revealed the extent to which theGerman Shephard has “challenged” agents and forced them to adjust their operational tactics around him.

The 24 instances of attacks by Commander included one in which an agent required six stitches and another where blood spilled onto the floor of an area of the White House open to public tours.

Commander was banished from the White House last year following a series of biting incidents.

“The recent dog bites have challenged us to adjust our operational tactics when Commander is present — please give lots of room (staying a terrain feature away if possible),” a senior agent in charge of the Presidential Protection Division wrote in a June 2023 email.

The unnamed person, whose code name was blacked out in the document, warned agents “must be creative to ensure our own personal safety”.

President Joe Biden's dog Commander looks out from the balcony during a pardoning ceremony for the national Thanksgiving turkeys at the White House in Washington in 2022

The document was heavily redacted to protect the identities of Service Secret agents and their security tactics. It was released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by John Greenewald, a California-based researcher who specialises in unearthing government secrets.

The biting incidents took place between October 2022 and July 2023. Commander’s victims suffered bites on their wrist, forearm, elbow, waist, chest, thigh and shoulder.

These incidents did not include the 11 reported attack incidents in the White House last July and