If President Biden prevents the release of documents that could reveal information about Hunter Biden’s connections to the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, according to a legal organization run by former Trump administration officials, “he will have only proven just how much he has to hide,” they claim, Fox News informed.
Many organizations have requested “Burisma”-related records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), including America First Legal. Nearly 300 emails that fit the request are scheduled for release by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), but the White House might obstruct it by asserting executive privilege.
The AFL president Stephen Miller, a former Trump adviser and speechwriter, fired off a warning shot to the government on Saturday, threatening legal action to obtain the data. The White House has not to confirm if Biden plans to do this.
On August 10, AFL delivered its FOIA requests. The group is looking for all correspondence between the office of the former vice president Biden and his son Hunter and brother James, as well as official government travel records of the Biden family’s travels to the Obama White House.
NARA informed the Biden White House in a letter dated November 30 that it has authorized the release of 69 photos and 282 emails mentioning “Burisma” in accordance with FOIA requests. According to Insider, there are 75 emails that will be partially redacted if the president approves their publication and 22 related emails that are prohibited and contain exempt material.
Draft papers that are “part of the deliberative or policy-making process” and material that would violate an individual’s privacy or reveal trade secrets are protected from FOIA inquiries. NARA omitted to specify which exemptions apply to the 22 restricted emails.
After Hunter Biden joined Burisma’s board in 2014—a lucrative job that paid up to $83,333 per month despite Biden’s lack of experience in the energy sector—the AFL, the press, and other organizations filed the FOIA requests.
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