Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) are intensifying their push for transparency, pressing the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to release long-sought-after records related to former President Joe Biden’s activities during his vice presidency.
In a letter sent Wednesday to NARA Acting General Counsel Hannah Bergman, the chairmen of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and Senate Judiciary Committee, respectively, accused the agency of stonewalling their oversight efforts since 2021, despite repeated requests.
The senators’ demands center on Biden’s use of pseudonyms and personal email addresses—such as “RobinWare456@gmail.com” and “Robert.L.Peters@pci.gov”—for official business, as well as his family’s financial dealings, including those tied to son Hunter Biden.
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“Since 2021, we have conducted oversight of Joe Biden’s use of multiple pseudonyms and personal email addresses for official government business when he served as Vice President,” they wrote. “Despite our multiple requests for information, the Biden White House failed to respond. Our offices have also sent five letters to [NARA], requesting documents … vital to our oversight. Unfortunately, NARA has also failed to provide all the information that we have sought.”
The letter, dated February 19, highlights a series of stalled inquiries, including a June 2021 request for records on the Biden family’s financial dealings and potential conflicts of interest, which NARA did not fulfill. It also references nine boxes of documents—approximately 40,000 pages—shipped from the Penn Biden Center to Boston, overseen by Biden’s attorney Pat Moore. While NARA reviewed these in 2024, deeming only 20 pages as Presidential Records Act material and claiming none were responsive to congressional requests, Johnson and Grassley insist their offices should examine them independently.
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“Although former President Biden is no longer in office and he pardoned his son Hunter and other family members, we believe it is of importance to review these records so the American people have a full accounting of Joe Biden and his family’s activities while Joe Biden was in government,” the senators argued, signaling that Biden’s December 2024 pardon of Hunter does not close the book on their probe.
Their requests are sweeping, encompassing all records involving Hunter Biden and associates like Devon Archer, James Biden, and firms such as Rosemont Seneca, Burisma, and CEFC China Energy, alongside emails linked to Biden’s aliases. They also seek documents tied to a Southeastern Legal Foundation FOIA request from 2022, amplifying their call for transparency.
The senators’ persistence comes after years of frustration with both NARA and the Biden administration. A January 2023 letter following reports of Biden’s mishandling of classified records drew a referral to the Justice Department rather than answers, and a 2023 request for pseudonym-related records remains unmet. Now wielding committee gavels in a Republican-controlled Senate, Johnson and Grassley appear poised to escalate their efforts.
Critics may view this as a partisan pursuit, especially given Biden’s exit from office and the pardon of Hunter, convicted in 2024 on gun and tax charges tied to his business ventures. But the senators frame it as a public service. Their past investigations—revealing Biden’s 327 alias email exchanges with Hunter and associate Eric Schwerin between 2010 and 2019, and Hunter’s ties to Ukrainian and Chinese entities—lend weight to their case for unredacted disclosure.
NARA has not yet responded publicly to the latest letter, leaving open whether it will comply or resist anew. For Johnson and Grassley, the stakes are clear: “The American people deserve a full accounting,” they insist, a demand that could reshape narratives around Biden’s vice-presidential tenure as Trump’s second term unfolds.
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