Posted on 06/01/2023 5:42:04 AM PDT by Red Badger
America First Legal on Wednesday released a batch of heavily-redacted emails it received from NARA that showed Hunter Biden advised his father's office during his vice presidency.
The National Archives and Records Administration is refusing to release myriad communications between first son Hunter Biden and his father's staff, asserting they are protected under an exemption to the Freedom of Information Act that covers communications between the president and his advisors, or between advisors.
America First Legal on Wednesday released a batch of heavily-redacted emails it received from NARA that showed Hunter Biden advised his father's office during his vice presidency. The organization obtained the emails from NARA through a FOIA request and has gradually released batches of the materials it obtained. While NARA redacted many of the emails, it further withheld entirely several more, merely confirming their existence.
Of particular interest is a communication from Hunter Biden business partner Eric Schwerin to the Office of the Vice President (OVP) about a "China Lunch" that preceded an official visit from then-Chinese President Hu Jintao to the U.S. in 2011. NARA acknowledged the communication's existence but refused to release it because doing so "would disclose confidential advice between the President and his advisors, or between such advisors."
The New York Post pointed to emails including Schwerin, OVP staffer Michele Smith, and the then-second son that appeared on his now-infamous laptop and also held the subject line "China Lunch." Those communications appear to show Hunter and Schwerin discussing suggestions for who ought to receive Vice President Biden's invitations to attend a state event. Schwerin later relates Hunter's suggestions to Smith. The outlet noted that none of the emails recovered from the laptop matched the time stamps from the redacted emails but contended that one might if the sender and recipient were in different time zones.
Three communications involve planning for a 2010 trip to Egypt, Kenya, and South Africa by Joe Biden and his wife, Jill. The first email from Hunter was sent to White House staffer Alan Hoffman seeking to arrange a phone call between the pair to "talk about Africa." The second email Hunter sent occurred after the call with Hoffman. It was sent to the second lady's advisor, Anthony Bernal.
The email, which reportedly addressed "Nairobi ideas," presumably referencing the Bidens' visit to Kenya, was redacted entirely by NARA on the grounds that it would disclose "confidential advice between the President and his advisors, or between such advisors." A third email that NARA also withheld completely was entitled "Summary Africa."
In an apparently unrelated communication from 2010, a pair of Office of the Vice President staffers discuss a "letter request from Hunter" in which one appeared to ask the other to write a letter to the brother of a Biden campaign supporter at Hunter's request.
The email chain appears to show that campaign supporter Rick Vitali reached out to Hunter to secure some communication from then-VP Biden to his brother, Sam Vitali. Hunter subsequently went to a business partner, who then reached out to her brother in the OVP.
Ben Whedon is an editor and reporter for Just the News. Follow him on Twitter.
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National Archives is corrupted and needs ending - like most other fed.gov orgs.
I believe the National Archives made an effort to get Trump on classified documents.
And they certainly make an effort to shield Democrats.
“...they are protected under an exemption to the Freedom of Information Act that covers communications between the president and his advisors, or between advisors.”
When has this EVER been applied to Trump? Every single Trump staffer and advisor and even his lawyers have all been required to surrender documents and testify or face imprisonment.
The FBI now these clowns. This is a conspiracy against the People.
We have two sets of laws.
One set for Democrats and one set for Republicans.
The one set for Democrats is empty...................
How are they appointed and who is their oversight?
Because the National Archives are anti-American.
Stonewalling by the people that supposedly work for us.
The left, a communist run movement, are the enemy of the people. They are currently engaged in a hostile takeover of the nation, and are corrupt as all get out. Th3y force compliance of the right, yet the left refuse to comply with the very rules they enforce. We no longer have a govenrment “of the people by the people and for the people”
That’s kinda like admitting that this information is incriminating, don’t you think?
Why would an email between Joe and Hunter need to be redacted? Shouldn’t Joe not talk about classified topics with his son who didn’t have clearance?
The fact that the article is redacted is defacto, prima facia proof of guilt.
The Archives is betting you never see the emails, because they are explicitly connecting Hunter to the President for purposes of influencing public policy.
The democrat syndicate keeps all bases covered.
Each and every department in the Federal Government, no matter how obscure or unimportant, has been weaponized by the Democrats to serve them exclusively..................
Agree poor voter turn out and choice is the food they live on.
Even the excuse they are using to not turn the documents over is an admission of guilt. They say the communications are protected because it is communication between the President and his advisor. That means Hunter was advising the President, and advisors by their very nature influence policy. So they are admitting, in a roundabout way, that Hunter was acting as an unregistered agent of foreign influence.
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