The National Archives and Records Administration has admitted that it has nearly 5,400 emails, electronic records and documents that potentially show President Biden using a pseudonym during his vice presidency, it was revealed on Monday.
NARA confirmed the existence of the property in response to a June 2022 Freedom of Information Act request by the Southeastern Legal Foundation, a nonprofit constitutional law group.
The request sought emails related to the accounts of Robin Ware, Robert L. Peters, and JRB Ware – the pseudonym the 80-year-old president is known to have used in the White House while he was President Obama’s vice president.
President Biden used the email address “[email protected]” while serving as vice president.AP
The Southeastern Legal Foundation on Monday filed suit against NARA for the release of records, which the group claims may show that Biden forwarded government information and discussed government matters with his son, Hunter Biden, and others.
“Often, public officials abuse their power by using it for their personal or political interests. When they do, many try to hide it. The only way to preserve the integrity of the government is for NARA to release nearly 5,400 of Biden’s emails to the SLF and thus the public. The American public deserves to know what’s in them,” said Kimberly Hermann, SLF’s general counsel, in a statement.
The group accused NARA of “dragging its feet” since the June 2022 FOIA request and said that none of the emails had been produced since the government agency acknowledged their existence just days after the request.
The National Archives says it has found more than 5,000 records that may show Joe Biden using a pseudonym.Getty Images
A photo of NARA’s response outlining the email address and the archived email is shown. David J. Myers
President Biden may have forwarded government information and discussed government matters with his son, Hunter Biden, and others, through the use of a secret email account.WireImage
“We have searched our collections for the Vice President’s records related to you [June 9, 2022] requested and has 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 archival operations division, wrote to the Southeastern Legal Foundation on June 24, 2022 , Monday’s lawsuit revealed.
Earlier this month, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer demanded that NARA turn over any unredacted records in which Joe Biden used a pseudonym during his vice presidential tenure as part of his investigation into the role the former vice president played in Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings.
Emails previously released by the Archives and retrieved from Hunter’s abandoned laptop reveal that Joe Biden used the email address “[email protected]” when he was Obama’s second in command and his aide John Flynn cc’d Hunter on 10 emails containing Biden’s daily schedule between May 18 and June 15, 2016.
The House Oversight Committee also demanded that the National Archives release records of Biden’s nickname.AP
“Joe Biden has stated there is an ‘absolute wall’ between his family’s foreign business scheme and his duties as Vice President, but the evidence reveals that access is wide open for his family’s influence peddling,” Comer said in a statement on Aug. 17.
“The National Archives must provide these unredacted records to further our investigation into the Biden family’s corruption,” he added.
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