Jaw-dropping: VP Biden received ‘sensitive’ materials at private email account
A new report confirms that there was a “security risk” that developed when materials during Barack Obama’s term in the White House were sent to Joe Biden’s private and personal email account.
Biden, of course, was found later to have concealed classified government documents in piles of paperwork in his offices and the garage at his home, but never was charged for the violations of federal law.
A new report at Just the News explains the information included “briefing memos, sensitive foreign conversations, ” “subjects and times for White House Situation Room meetings” and other “fallout from leaked National Security Agency intercepts.”
The details come from a recent set of emails released by the National Archives.
According to the report, “Security experts and lawmakers, who reviewed the records, said they were disturbed by the nonchalant transmission of sensitive government information to Biden’s insecure private email accounts and believed it put national security at risk.”
Of course, Hillary Clinton, the Democrats’ failed 2016 presidential candidate, was embroiled in her own email scandal just years earlier, when she set up a private server in her home and sent all sorts of government documents to the unsecured location.
“The new set of emails from Joe Biden’s time as Vice President are very troubling and are more evidence that Biden believed he did not have to abide by classification and document handling regulations,” former CIA analyst and former Trump National Security Council chief of staff Fred Fleitz confirmed to Just the News.
The report said hundreds of pages of emails dated from 2011 to 2015 were given to Just the News and a law firm, Southeastern Legal Foundation, in a Freedom of Information Act case.
The report explained, “They build on prior evidence that then-Vice President Biden was using the pseudonymous accounts for sensitive discussions with close advisors about official business ranging from domestic politics to sensitive foreign policy matters.”
Whether any documents were classified hadn’t been determined yet, the report said.
“Just like the classified documents Biden stored in his garage and home office, he again proved he didn’t care about document security,” Fleitz charged. “Biden’s use of a gmail alias email address for work-related emails (robinware45@gmail.com) put sensitive government emails on gmail servers where they could easily have been hacked.”
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., chairs the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and explained to the publication he’ll get to the bottom of the scandal, and find out if laws were broken.
““Over the last several years, Sen. Grassley and I pressed the Biden White House and the National Archives for information and records on Joe Biden’s use of pseudonyms and personal email addresses for official government business,” he said. “The Biden administration failed to respond to those requests.”
It is the Federal Records Act that governs the disposition of government documents of all sorts.
Chris Piehota, of the FBI, explained, “Government policy says you are not supposed to do business outside the government system,” and that’s for a reason.
“Those systems are not considered secure because they can be attacked from the outside or monitored by the provider. Providers can see anything. These are insecure systems for government business,” he said
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