[Just The News] Disclosure made in little-notice status briefing as FOIA litigation advances
Under legal pressure, the National Archives has located 82,000 pages of emails that President Joe Biden sent or received during his vice presidential tenure on three private pseudonym accounts, a total that potentially dwarfs the amount that landed Hillary Clinton in hot water a decade ago, according to a federal court filing released Monday.
The total of Biden private email exchanges was disclosed Monday in a little-noticed status report filed in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought against the National Archives and Records Administration by the nonprofit public interest law firm the Southeastern Legal Foundation.
The foundation brought the lawsuit seeking access to the emails after Just the News revealed a year ago that Joe Biden had used three pseudonym email accounts -- robinware456@gmail.com, JRBWare@gmail.com, and Robert.L.Peters@pci.gov — during the time he served as President Barack Obama’s vice president.
The status report filed Monday in a federal court in Atlanta was the first to provide an estimate of the size and scope of possible government business conducted through Joe Biden’s private email accounts.
"NARA has completed a search for potentially responsive documents and is currently processing those documents for the purpose of producing non-exempt portions of any responsive records on a monthly rolling basis," the status report stated. "Given the scope of Plaintiff’s FOIA request, which seeks copies of all emails in three separate accounts over an eight-year period, the volume of potentially responsive records is necessarily large.
"NARA has identified approximately 82,000 pages of potentially responsive documents, and it is currently processing those documents and preparing any non-exempt responsive documents for production on a rolling basis," the filing added.
You can read the full court filing here.
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SELF-NARA-BidenPseudonymEmails.pdf
The court filing added that the foundation and NARA are discussing ways to narrow the request for records to get copies of the emails out in a more expeditious manner.
Government officials' use of private email for official business is discouraged under the law, and officials like Biden are required to preserve all government-related emails conducted on their private accounts under the Federal Records Act. The fact that NARA has such a large collection suggests Biden gave those emails to the nation’s history-preserving agency.
The total revealed by the Archives, however, is stunning in size, even dwarfing the total from the most infamous private email scandal in American history involving former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, which also involved government business on Obama’s watch.
A State Department inspector general report in summer 2016 found Mrs. Clinton improperly used a private email server stored in her family’s home in Chappaqua, N.Y., to regularly conduct government business and later deleted many of the emails she considered to be private.
"Secretary Clinton produced to the Department from her personal email account approximately 55,000 hard-copy pages, representing approximately 30,000 emails that she believed related to official business," the final report noted. Those totals are significantly smaller than the amount of pages the National Archives says it has from Biden’s personal account.
The IG noted there was a lax record-keeping system at State and across government that needed modernizing and impacted several prior secretaries.
Posted by: Frank G ||
10/31/2023 00:00 ||
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It is clear that deliberate steps were taken by him or his puppet masters to mask and deceive the US Citizens.
It is clear there have been numerous violates of US Law & Classified Document Secrecy regulations and graft, bribery and conflict of interest (18 U.S. Code 201) issues and more.
Even while VP.
So I'll ask where have the Republicans been the last 2 years 9 months 11 days?
Are they gonna wait 370 more days, until he loses the election, to charge him and his staff for Treason and Subversion and a growing list of documented felonies.?
IMO, yes, let Joe be nominated, let him run, keep producing reems and reems of incriminating information. Hope that the Presidency, Senate and House are securely Republican in 2025.
Then prosecute Joe. Keep the prosecution going for a couple more years so he remains the face of the Democrat party in 2026
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10/31/2023 10:16 Comments ||
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Is it a scandal if nobody hears about it?
Posted by: James ||
10/31/2023 12:25 Comments ||
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President #JoeBiden is directing the US government to take a sweeping approach to artificial intelligence (#AI) regulation, setting new standards on security and privacy protections for AI, with far-reaching impacts on companies.https://t.co/k7SHCepTdJ
Good idea, Joe. Construct a bureaucracy led by ham-fisted political science and psych majors who have no idea what they're actually "regulating" and turn 'em loose with minimal supervision where they're in a position to retard progress for the next hundred years. It'll be kinda like an EPA for science!
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Government control is the ultimate goal. With control comes the ability to levy licenses, harvest taxes and kickbacks.
Government regulation is the antithesis of free market.
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^ for some reason I can't find that in the enumerated powers of the national government. I'm sure you can spend a little effort to get SCOTUS to find some umbra to excuse your assumption of powers.
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Getting Biden and Harris takes on AI is as valuable to my a literary criticism of Chaucer by Larry the Cable Guy.
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Democrats never saw anything they didn't want to regulate. But, really, what is AI? It's just the latest buzzword for software in an industry that loves it some buzzwords. They're hoping their customers won't know any better. So when Joe signs an executive order to regulate AI he is really regulating software, regulating the entire computer industry in ways that we've all been able to do without since computers were invented. Can't wait for the court challenges.
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