The Atlanta-based Southeastern Legal Foundation (SLF), a constitutional public interest law firm and policy center, on Monday filed a federal lawsuit against the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for all emails from when then-Vice President Joe Biden used three personal pseudonym email accounts to forward government information and discuss government business with his son Hunter Biden and others.
NARA and other sources have confirmed that now-President Biden used the fake names of Robin Ware, Robert L. Peters and JRB Ware. Approximately 5,400 emails are reportedly involved. SLF, in a news release, complains that the NARA has “dragged its feet and still has not produced a single email.”
The lawsuit seeks to expose the direct and documented relationship between Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Hunter Biden’s companies and the federal government dating back to 2017. Incredibly, SLF first asked NARA to release Biden’s emails in 2021. NARA responded that because it did not take custody of then-vice president’s records until January 20, 2017, the emails could not be made public until January 20, 2022. So, according to the news release, SLF renewed its request with a second FOIA request in 2022 that is at the heart of this lawsuit.
“All too often,” SLF General Counsel Kimberly Hermann says, “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.”
Congress has also gotten involved— specifically, the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee. It is probing the Bidens’ questionable foreign business dealings. So, to get the very same records the SLF is trying to pry loose, Committee Chairman James Comer is also demanding that NARA turn over unredacted copies of these suspicious emails.
James Magazine Online CEO & Publisher Phil Kent is a former president of the Southeastern Legal Foundation.
