The National Archives and Records Administration has admitted to being in possession of nearly 5,400 emails, electronic records and documents potentially showing President Biden using a pseudonym during his vice presidency, it was revealed Monday.
NARA confirmed the existence of the hoard in response to a June 2022 Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Southeastern Legal Foundation, a nonprofit constitutional legal group.
The request sought emails related to the accounts of Robin Ware, Robert L. Peters and JRB Ware, pseudonyms the 80-year-old president was known to use in the White House during his time as vice president to President Barack Obama.
President Biden used the email address “[email protected]” while serving as Vice President.AP
The Southeastern Legal Foundation filed a lawsuit Monday against NARA over the release of the records, which the group says may show Biden sent government information and discussed government business with his son Hunter Biden and others.
“Too often, public officials abuse their power by using it for personal or political gain. When they do, many seek to hide it. The only way to preserve government integrity is for NARA to release Biden’s nearly 5,400 emails to the SLF and thus to the public. The American public deserves to know what’s inside,” Kimberly Hermann, SLF general counsel, said in a statement.
The group accuses NARA of having been “delayed” since the June 2022 FOIA request and says not a single email has been produced since the government agency acknowledged its existence just days after the request.
The National Archives says it has found more than 5,000 records that can potentially show President Biden using a pseudonym.Getty Images
NARA’s response describing the email address and emails on file. David J Myers
President Biden may have sent government information and discussed government business with his son Hunter Biden and others through the use of secret email accounts.
“We have conducted a search of our collection of vice presidential records related to your [June 9, 2022] request and have identified approximately 5,138 email messages, 25 electronic files, and 200 pages of potentially responsive records that must be processed to respond to your request,” Stephannie Oriabure, director of NARA’s archives operations division, wrote to Southeastern Legal. Foundation on June 24, 2022, revealed Monday’s lawsuit.
Earlier this month, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) demanded that NARA turn over any unredacted records in which Joe Biden used a pseudonym during his vice presidency as part of his investigation into the role the former vice president played in Hunter. Biden’s foreign business.
Emails previously released by the Archives and recovered from Hunter’s abandoned laptop reveal that Joe Biden used the email address “[email protected]” while Obama’s second-in-command and that his aide John Flynn copied Hunter. in 10 emails containing President Biden’s daily schedule between May 18 and June 15, 2016.
The House Oversight Committee is also demanding that the National Archives release its records of Biden’s pen name.AP
“Joe Biden has stated that there was ‘an absolute wall’ between his family’s foreign business plans and his duties as vice president, but the evidence reveals that access was wide open for his family’s influence peddling,” Comer said in a statement on August 17.
“The National Archives must provide these redacted records to advance our investigation into the corruption of the Biden family,” he added.
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