And Hillary Clinton wiped 30,000 e-mails “with a cloth” from her bathroom server because she only discussed Chelsea’s wedding in them. The mainstream media swallowed that one whole, and they’re ready to chow down again, it seems. When it comes to retconning corrupt communications strategies, Time Magazine shows it can play with the big boys today.

Despite evidence reported earlier this week that Joe Biden’s alias accounts exchanged over a thousand e-mails with Hunter Biden’s firm, Time declares that “what we know” about it is that “Robert L. Peters” et al were … hacker-fighting strategies. And they’re totes normal, too. If your last name is Clinton or Biden, anyway:

When Joe Biden was Vice President, he used multiple email addresses. While members of the public might have guessed they could reach Barack Obama’s running mate at, say, [email protected], he often used email accounts under aliases like Robert Peters and JRB Ware. Biden was following a common practice among senior government officials hoping to thwart hackers, as well as prevent spammers from guessing their address and clogging their inbox, according to a White House official. …

Joe Biden used Gmail addresses with the name “robinware456” and “JRBWare” during his time as Vice President. He also used a government-issued pci.gov account with the name “Robert.L.Peters”. The pci.gov domain has been used for emails of officials working in the executive office of the president. The National Archives has retained thousands of emails connected to those accounts in its records from Biden’s time as Vice President.

So the Peters alias may have been intended as a sotto voce official account. How does that relate to the Robin Ware and JRB Ware accounts on Gmail and not on “government-issued” accounts? Does Time really think that the way to fight spammers and hackers is … to open two Gmail accounts?

Those are’t the only questions prompted by this attempt to normalize this practice, either. Why did Biden choose to use the Gmail accounts at all rather than just stick to the Peters account, if that was the known and approved alternative for direct access to the then-VP? In fact, why use more than one alias if evading hackers and spammers was the intent? Using three accounts would make it far more difficult for those who needed to communicate with Biden to figure out which alias to use, and for what purpose.

Furthermore, did Congress ever get apprised of the use of any aliases by Biden? Congress has constitutional authority for oversight of the executive branch, and access to communications for official business is key to that oversight. That is what Hillary Clinton subverted with her home-based e-mail server; the State Department misled courts on several occasions by claiming she didn’t use e-mail. Any communications involving government business must be made available to Congress and the courts when lawfully requested or demanded, and furthermore they must all be archived properly as well.

Even apart from that, Time’s argument here is a distraction, and they know it. Congress isn’t investigating the Bidens because Joe used some alias accounts; they’re investigating corruption and influence-peddling by Hunter to see whether the current president participated and profited from it. And by the looks of the volume of e-mail coming from “Peters” and the “Wares” to Hunter’s businesses, it certainly looks like more than casual greetings took place between Biden père et fils.

And take note, too: these e-mails were not going to Hunter’s personal G-mail or Facebook account. They were going back and forth between Joe Biden and the Hunter Biden businesses with which Biden claims he had no connections.

This too is the same playbook used by the mainstream media in the Hillary e-mail scandal, encapsulated nicely in the profoundly dishonest “but her emails!” meme. During her time as Senator and especially Secretary of State, the Clintons built their Clinton Foundation and especially the Clinton Global Initiative into a massive international fundraiser as she prepared herself for a run for president. The reason to keep those e-mails from Congress likely was to cover the fact that Clinton was using her office to promote that scheme and trade off of her access to power. And Clinton made sure no one would ever find out by using that amateur home-brew server and then deleting half of the communications from it when the House Select Committee on Benghazi discovered it in August 2014.

That itself is a curious coincidence: the Biden and Hillary e-mail dodges appear to have roughly operated at the same time during Barack Obama’s presidency. Who else in Obama’s administration was fighting cybercriminals via e-mail aliases while conducting side hustles?

Don’t ask Time Magazine. This is how they conclude their “nothing to see here” piece today:

One of Hunter Biden’s business associates, Devon Archer, testified before Comer’s committee in July that Hunter Biden had been selling the “illusion” of access and profiting off the Biden name brand. Comer has still not produced evidence that Joe Biden himself was part of that effort.

Yes, but that’s why the committee wants to see the e-mails! And that’s why the current Biden administration just hid hundreds of them behind a new claim of executive privilege, too. I’m sure that’s totes normal for politicians who coordinate on an industrial basis with a family member’s commercial interests — especially one in which its other principal admits that the business was nothing more than an influence-peddling scheme.

Nothing to see here! Wiped with a cloth! If you want answers, you dig for evidence and testimony. If you want a cover-up, turn to Time Magazine and the rest of the Protection Racket Media.