Joe Biden sent 82,000 pages of emails under three fake names during his time as vice president, according to records coughed up by the National Archives in response to a lawsuit.
Big Guy, Celtic, Robin Ware and Robert L. Peters are among some of the aliases that helped shield Mr. Biden’s identity during and after his time as vice president with at least three Biden code names used on official White House emails.
The fake names raise questions about Mr. Biden’s efforts to shield his communications from public disclosure, and in particular, the extent to which he involved his son, Hunter Biden, who leveraged his father’s power in lucrative business deals.
Responding to a public records lawsuit filed by the conservative-leaning Southeastern Legal Foundation, the National Archives and Records Administration located “82,000 pages of potentially responsive White House documents,” that included three aliases for the then-vice president: robineware456@gmail.com, JRBWare@gmail.com and Robert.L.Peters@pci.gov.
National Archives officials have not turned over the emails but are “currently processing” the documents and will produce “non-exempt portions” every month, they said in a preliminary report filed in U.S. District Court in Atlanta.
The Washington Times reported in July that one White House scheduling email sent to then-Vice President Biden at the Robert.L.Peters@pci.gov address inexplicably looped in Hunter Biden.
The May 26, 2016 email alerted Mr. Biden and Hunter Biden to an upcoming call with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. At the time, Hunter Biden was serving on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings, which was paying the president’s son $1 million a year to help them stave off corruption probes, according to his ex-business partners.
Mr. Biden later bragged he helped push out Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, who before being forced out of office had seized the assets of Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky.
House investigators are also seeking Obama-era emails from the Archives that loop in Hunter Biden or use a pseudonym for Mr. Biden but so far, they have been blocked by the Biden administration from viewing all but 14 pages of documents, a GOP aide told The Times.
Mr. Biden’s use of aliases while serving as vice president was first discovered on the laptop computer discarded by Hunter Biden and was also disclosed through public information requests sent to the National Archives, which is the custodian of emails and other White House records after an administration ends.
In addition to the three emails identified by the National Archives, business associates of Hunter Biden identified Mr. Biden as “Celtic” and “The Big Guy,” according to messages discovered on the discarded laptop computer and other messages handed over by ex-business partner Tony Bobulisnki.
In one text message sent on May 20, 2017, five months after Mr. Biden left the Obama White House, a business associate named James Gilliar messaged Mr. Bobulinski to warn him, “Don’t mention Joe being involved, it’s only when u are face to face. I know u know that but they are paranoid.”
Mr. Bobulinski responded: “Ok they should be paranoid about things.”
• Susan Ferrechio can be reached at sferrechio@washingtontimes.com.