National Archives has 5,400 Biden emails in which he uses fake names to dish government info to Hunter, others as VP: suit
The National Archives has 5,400 emails and records that potentially show President Joe Biden using pseudonyms during his vice presidency. The three pseudonyms that Biden is known to have used are:
- Robin Ware: This email address was used to communicate with Biden's son, Hunter, and other business associates.
- JRB Ware: This email address was also used to communicate with Hunter Biden.
- Robert L. Peters: This email address was used to communicate with government officials.
It is not clear why Biden used pseudonyms to communicate. Some have speculated that he did so to avoid scrutiny of his personal or business dealings. Others have said that he used pseudonyms to protect his privacy.
The National Archives is still in the process of reviewing the 5,400 emails and records. It is not clear when the full contents of the emails will be released to the public.
In addition to the three pseudonyms listed above, there have been reports that Biden may have used other aliases to communicate while he was vice president. However, these reports have not been confirmed.
The use of pseudonyms by high-level government officials is not uncommon. However, it is unusual for a vice president to use pseudonyms to the extent that Biden is alleged to have done. The use of pseudonyms raises questions about Biden's transparency and accountability.
The National Archives and Records Administration has admitted that it is in possession of 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 trove in response to a June 2022 Freedom of Information Act request by the Southeastern Legal Foundation, a nonprofit constitutional legal group.
The request sought emails pertaining 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 President Barack Obama’s vice president.
The Southeastern Legal Foundation on Monday filed suit against NARA for the release of the records, which the group claims may show that Biden forwarded government information and discussed government business with his son Hunter Biden and others.
“All too often, public officials abuse their power by using it for their personal or political benefit. When they do, many seek to hide it. The only way to preserve governmental integrity is for NARA to release Biden’s nearly 5,400 emails to SLF and thus the public. The American public deserves to know what is in them,” Kimberly Hermann, SLF general counsel, said in a statement.
The group accuses NARA of having “dragged its feet ” since the June 2022 FOIA request and says that not a single email has been produced since the government agency acknowledged their existence just days after the request.
“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, the 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 (R-Ky.) demanded that NARA hand over any unredacted records in which Joe Biden used a pseudonym during his vice presidency as part of his probe 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 “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 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.
