Thousands Of Biden Alias Emails Held By National Archives
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) faces a Thursday deadline to hand over thousands of emails and documents that Joe Biden reportedly sent under aliases during his tenure as vice president. These emails are at the center of a lawsuit filed by the Southeastern Legal Foundation (SLF), a nonprofit constitutional legal group, as well as an official demand from the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.
This issue came to light last summer when the SLF discovered through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that NARA was in possession of over 5,000 emails involving pseudonyms Biden allegedly used. The aliases in question are Robin Ware, Robert L. Peters, and JRB Ware. Despite acknowledging the existence of these documents in a June 24, 2022, letter, the National Archives has yet to release any of the emails.
SLF’s FOIA request specifically sought “copies of all emails President Joe Biden preserved through the National Archives and Records Administration from his time as vice president for the following email addresses: [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected].”
According to Stephannie Oriabure, director of NARA’s archival operations division, the agency has identified “approximately 5,138 email messages, 25 electronic files and 200 pages of potentially responsive records” that need to be processed.
The issue doesn’t stop with the legal watchdog group. Rep. James Comer (R-KY), the House Oversight Committee chairman, echoed the SLF’s concerns in an August 17 letter to NARA. Comer asserted that the “existence of emails penned by Biden under these aliases demonstrate that his 2019 claim that he erected ‘an absolute wall between the personal and private, and the government’ was false.”
The questions about the emails also intersect with previous revelations involving Hunter Biden, the president’s son. In 2016, an email was sent to the alias Robert Peters containing Joe Biden’s daily schedule and was copied to Hunter Biden. This raises concerns about the blurred lines between official duties and family business, especially when Rep. Comer noted that “Hunter Biden and his associates were informed of then-Vice President Biden’s official government duties in countries where they had a financial interest.”
Given these circumstances, the transparency of the Biden administration is at stake. The release of these emails is not just a matter of meeting a legal requirement but also serves as a test for public accountability. Should NARA fail to comply by Thursday, the issue could escalate, compelling a federal court to intervene in the SLF lawsuit.
