A junior Navy sailor tried unsuccessfully to access President Biden’s medical records in February through a military medical database, the Pentagon’s top spokesman confirmed Tuesday.
CBS News first reported that the sailor, whose name was not released, used Genesis Medical Health System three times on Feb. 23 to search for “Joseph Biden” but did not find the correct person.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was notified of the attempted breach in February, when the Navy became aware, and the White House was also notified through channels at the time, Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder later said. to reporters.
“The bottom line is that they confirmed that at no point was the president’s personal information compromised and that the record that the sailor improperly accessed was not the electronic health record of the president of the United States,” Ryder said.
An investigation into the incident was launched by the Navy Criminal Investigative Service on Feb. 26 after a co-worker of the sailor reported what had happened, said Navy spokesman Cmdr. Tim Hawkins told The Hill.
The junior sailor, who served with the Navy Medical Readiness and Training Command based at Fort Belvoir, Va., admitted he looked up the president’s name “out of curiosity,” Hawkins said.
The investigation, which concluded on April 24, concluded that the medical record accessed by the sailor was not the president’s electronic medical record and the sailor could not have used the Genesis system to do so, as Biden’s medical record is restricted.
“The MHS Genesis system is a secure healthcare system and at no time was the president’s personal information compromised,” Hawkins said.
Biden underwent his annual physical on February 28 at Walter Reed National Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. At the time, the president was deemed “fit for duty,” according to a summary of the examination that the White House later released.
That assessment was called into question after Biden’s disastrous debate performance last month, with some Democrats arguing that he lacks the mental acuity to serve as commander in chief for another four years.
The White House also sparred Monday with reporters over whether the administration was honest about Biden’s health after reports emerged indicating visitor records shown a neurologist specializing in Parkinson’s disease was at the White House eight times over an eight-month period.
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