The National Achieves this week surrendered almost 6,000 pages of documents, including 211 emails, to the House Oversight Committee in connection with its impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
Gary Stern, the general counsel for the National Archives, said in two letters dated March 26 to Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., that the documents had been turned over, reports Axios.
The document delivery followed claims by the committee that the National Archives was obstructing efforts to get information for the inquiry, and as Republicans are increasingly acknowledging that the lengthy investigation may not result in impeaching the president.
Stern wrote in his letters that the National Archives is "conducting a rolling notification process to the representatives of the former and incumbent Presidents."
The submitted emails cover several of the committee's requests, including documents where Biden, while vice president, used a pseudonym; drafts of a speech he gave to the Ukrainian government in 2015; and communications with his son Hunter Biden or his business associates.
To date, the National Archives has released more than 20,000 pages of emails related to Hunter Biden and the Biden family, while turning over another 75,000 pages of records to House Republicans, according to a senior House Democrat aide.
The aide also said that the National Archives has been trying to deal with the requests in good faith, tripling its staff to respond to the demands.
Last fall, the National Archives disclosed that Biden sent or received up to 82,000 pages of private emails while he was vice president, leaving Comer to promise that the Oversight Committee would end up getting all of them.
The National Archives has disclosed that emails were sent during all eight years of Biden's vice presidency and included messages to or from three shadow email addresses: "robinware456@gmail.com," "JRBWare@gmail.com," and "Robert.L.Peters@pci.gov."
Meanwhile, Comer has also signaled that the probe's target is no longer aimed at impeaching Biden, but at seeking criminal referrals on which a future Department of Justice could act if former President Donald Trump returns to the White House.
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