Financial safety

Do Foreign Intelligence Services Care If Joe Biden Has Financial Difficulties? Of Course They Do.

Vice President Joe Biden the other day opened up to CNN’s Gloria Borger andrecounted an anecdote about a severe financial hardship situation in his family. This vignette underscores that even the most important people in this nation can have significant vulnerabilities that intelligence services could and would try to exploit.

Biden’s son, Beau, suffered a stroke a few years ago, and then fell mortally ill with a fast-moving brain cancer. He died in May 2014. Beyond the emotional turmoil the Vice President must have felt, his son’s illness placed part of his family—Biden’s daughter-in-law and grandchildren—in a financially perilous situation.