The National Archives and Records Administration has admitted to being holding more than 5,400 emails digital records, documents and emails that could reveal the presidency of President Biden who was a pseudonym for his vice-presidential term as was disclosed on Monday.
NARA has confirmed that the treasure trove exists, in response to the 30 June 2022 Freedom of Information Act request from Southeastern Legal Foundation. Southeastern Legal Foundation, a non-profit legal organization that is constitutionally based.
The request sought emails that referred to accounts belonging to Robin Ware, Robert L. Peters and JRB Ware, pseudonyms that the president of 80 years used within his time in the White House during his time as Obama’s vice president.
The Southeastern Legal Foundation on Monday filed a suit against NARA to obtain the documents, which the group claims could show that Biden was a communicator for government information and discussed business matters together with his nephew Hunter Biden and others.
“All of the time, officials in the public sector misuse their power by applying it to their own private or political advantage. When they do, a lot of them try to conceal the fact that they did. It is the only method to ensure the integrity of our government is to ask NARA to make public Biden’s five hundred emails sent to SLF and the public. The American public is entitled to know the contents of these emails,” Kimberly Hermann, SLF general counsel, stated in an announcement.
The group says NARA that it has “dragged its feet ” since the June 2022 FOIA request, and claims that no single email has been made available after the agency’s acknowledgment of the existence of the request just days after receiving the request was made.
“We have performed a search of our collection for 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 in order to respond to your request,” Stephannie Oriabure, director of NARA’s archives operation division wrote Southeastern Legal Foundation on June 24, 2022. Monday’s lawsuit revealed.
This month House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) requested that NARA provide any redacted documents that show Joe Biden used a pseudonym during his time as vice president, in the course of his investigation into the role that the ex-vice president had in Hunter Biden’s overseas business transactions.
Emails previously released by the Archives and retrieved from Hunter’s abandoned laptop reveal that Joe Biden used the email address “Robert.L.Peters@pci.gov” while he was Obama’s second-in-command and that his aide John Flynn cc’d Hunter on 10 emails containing the elder Biden’s daily schedule between May 18 and June 15, 2016.
“Joe Biden has stated there was ‘an absolute wall’ between his family’s foreign business schemes and his duties as Vice President, but evidence reveals that access was wide open for his family’s influence peddling,” Comer claimed in a statement released on August. 17.
“The National Archives must provide these unredacted records to further our investigation into the Biden family’s corruption,” the senator said.