President Biden sent or received up to 82,000 pages of private emails while serving as Barack Obama’s vice president, the National Archives revealed Monday night as part of a lawsuit filed by a conservative organization.
The Files revealed that the trove of correspondence spanned all eight years of Biden’s vice presidency and included messages to or from three hidden email addresses: “[email protected],” “[email protected],” and “Robert.L .Peters@ pci.gov,” according to a joint filing with the Georgia-based Southeastern Legal Foundation.
“The fact that, as vice president, Joe Biden sent 82,000 pages of emails from alias email addresses is shocking,” Southeastern Legal Foundation general counsel Kimberly Hermann told The Post.
“The American public has a right to know what is in those emails. “SLF is hopeful that now that we have confirmed that the emails exist, NARA will meet its legal obligation and produce them in a timely and transparent manner.”
It is unclear what topics are discussed in most of the emails or who else was involved in the messages.
However, at least 10 missives were sent between May 18 and June 15, 2016, and were copied to the first son, Hunter Biden, and one on May 26 notified Hunter of a phone call scheduled for the next day between the vice president and the Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko. , shows the first son’s abandoned laptop.
Then-vice president John Flynn included Hunter in missives in the months following Joe Biden’s December 2015 threat to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees from Kiev unless Poroshenko fired Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin. , which was investigating Burisma Holdings owner Mykola Zlochevsky.
President Biden exchanged 82,000 pages of private emails while serving as vice president in the Obama White House, the National Archives revealed. Getty Images At least 10 pseudonymous emails were sent between May 18 and June 15, 2016, copied to Hunter Biden. .Getty Images
The president’s son served on the board of directors of the Ukrainian natural gas company from 2014 to 2019, earning an annual salary of approximately $1 million, despite having no prior experience in the energy industry.
Ukraine’s parliament dismissed Shokin in March 2016.
The Southeastern Legal Foundation sued the National Archives in August as part of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to determine the extent to which Biden discussed government matters with his son and others.
The National Archives revealed that the trove of private correspondence spanned the eight years of his vice presidency. AP The Southeastern Legal Foundation sued the National Archives as part of a Freedom of Information Act request over Biden’s conversations with her son about government matters. Paul Morigi
That same month, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) also demanded the Archives turn over unredacted copies of the former vice president’s pseudonymous correspondence involving his son.
On September 12, House Republicans launched an impeachment inquiry into the president, which will determine whether Biden, in his previous or current role, abused his office or profited from his son’s foreign business dealings. .
Congressional Republicans this year revealed the existence of a confidential FBI file from a credible source alleging that Zlochevksy also paid a $10 million bribe to the now-president and his son amid the Shokin investigation.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer demanded that the Archives turn over unredacted copies of the former vice president’s pseudonymous correspondence involving his son. Bloomberg via Getty Images
Hunter’s former business partner, Devon Archer, testified before the Oversight Committee in July that Joe Biden spoke to his son’s business partners at least 20 times by phone and that Hunter was placed on Burisma’s board of directors because of the ” brand” of his family.
“The National Archives has identified 82,000 pages of emails in which then-Vice President Joe Biden used a false name, but the Biden White House has only deleted 14 pages in response to multiple requests from the Oversight Committee for documents related to then-Vice President Joe Biden. Vice President Biden.” Comer told The Post in a statement.
“This lack of transparency on the part of the self-proclaimed ‘most transparent administration in history’ seems more like an obstruction every day. Congress needs full access to these records and others as part of our investigation into the corruption of Joe Biden and the Biden family. “The House Oversight Committee will continue to use the power of the gavel to obtain records necessary for our investigation.”
According to Monday’s filing, the Archives has “completed a search for potentially responsive documents” and will produce “non-exempt” files “on a monthly basis” in the future.
“Given the scope of Plaintiff’s FOIA request, which seeks copies of all emails in three separate accounts over an eight-year period, the volume of potentially receptive records is necessarily large,” it is filed in U.S. District Court. .US for the Northern District of Georgia. state.
Hunter’s former business partner, Devon Archer (left), testified before the Oversight Committee that Joe Biden spoke to his son’s business partners at least 20 times.FOX News/Tucker Carlson Tonight
The National Archives and the Southeastern Legal Foundation are also in talks “to limit the FOIA request in an effort to resolve this matter more quickly.”
The parties have asked U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May to order a joint report on the status of the accommodation of the initial FOIA request, the “processing and production rates of the documents” and “proposals for next steps.” in the process”, which expires on December 8. case.”
By comparison, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton kept at least 33,000 emails on her personal server before deleting them.
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