EXCLUSIVE — The National Archives and Records Administration sent the House Oversight Committee nearly 4,000 pages of documents the committee requested as a part of the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, including emails where Biden used an alias.
In August, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) asked for unrestricted special access to unredacted emails and documents from Biden’s time as vice president.
On Tuesday, NARA responded by sending the committee 3,902 pages of documents, which included 252 emails and attachments. That’s in addition to the batch NARA sent the committee in December of 1,799 emails and attachments requested by Comer, which totals 62,210 pages.
According to a letter from NARA to the committee obtained by the Washington Examiner, the documents released to the committee this week include communications and documents “in which a pseudonym for Vice President Joe Biden was included either as a sender, recipient, copied or was included in the contents of the document or communication, including but not limited to Robert Peters, Robin Ware, and JRB Ware.”
The documents also include communications where “Hunter Biden, Eric Schwerin, or Devon Archer was included either as a sender, recipient, copied, or was included in the contents of the document or communication.”
NARA had already publicly released more than 20,000 pages of emails related to Hunter Biden.
According to a senior House Democratic aide, NARA “tripled their staff” in order to fulfill the requests made by the committee.
The public isn’t likely to get a full look at the Biden documents anytime soon. NARA said some of the documents include personal information on addresses and phone numbers and asked the committee to “protect such information from public disclosure.”
The GOP leaders leading the impeachment inquiry have signaled they are not satisfied with NARA’s response to their requests. On Friday, days after NARA sent the records, Comer, Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) sent a letter to NARA inviting the head archivist, Colleen Shogan, to participate in a public hearing to “assess NARA’s interactions and coordination with the White House regarding the Oversight Committee’s requests.”
The chairmen claim that NARA is only releasing documents that “reflect favorably on the President or that are without substance” and say that “is unacceptable.”
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“The Committees seek an explanation regarding the disparity between the documents produced to it by NARA and evidence accumulated by criminal investigators showing communications between or among then-Vice President Biden and his family’s business associates,” the letter reads. “The Committees also seek to understand the White House’s unwillingness to allow NARA to produce documents in a timely manner—including the small subset of documents reflecting then-Vice President Biden’s speech to the Ukrainian Rada in 2015, then-Vice President Biden’s use of Air Force Two, and communications between and among Obama-Biden Administration officials and Biden family business associates.”
NARA did not respond to a request for comment.
