The chairmen of House Oversight, Ways and Means, and Judiciary Committees Thursday requested interviews with at least 13 key officials related to the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden, including the prosecutor who led the case into President Joe Biden’s son.
Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) of Ways and Means, Jim Jordan (R-OH) of Judiciary, and James Comer (R-KY) of Oversight sent letters to the heads of the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Justice, and United States Secret Service requesting access to some of their employees who they claim “possess information concerning allegations of politicization and misconduct at their agencies with respect to the investigation of Hunter Biden.”
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Since testimony from two IRS whistleblowers was released last week claiming the DOJ significantly interfered with U.S. Attorney David Weiss’ investigation into Hunter Biden, Republicans in the House have started ramping up their inquiry into what exactly occurred during the investigation for the president’s son to get what they have called a “sweetheart deal.” The DOJ has said Hunter Biden plans to plead guilty to two federal charges, two misdemeanor tax charges, and enter a diversion program on a third gun charge.
The chairmen ask for 11 DOJ employees, including Weiss, to sit for a transcribed interview before Judiciary, two IRS employees to sit before Ways and Means, and an unlisted number of Secret Service agents to sit before Oversight.
The Secret Service agents include any agent who received a “tip-off” on Dec. 7, 2020, that criminal investigators with the IRS wanted to interview Hunter Biden. According to a whistleblower, the “FBI headquarters had notified Secret Service headquarters, and the Biden transition team, about IRS CI’s plan to interview Hunter.” The whistleblower continued saying, “This essentially tipped off a group of people very close to President Biden and Hunter Biden and gave this group an opportunity to obstruct the approach on the witnesses.”
In a letter to the agencies, the committees said the testimony from the more than a dozen employees is “required” in order to “fully assess these allegations.” They gave the agencies until July 13 to begin scheduling the transcribed interviews and also threatened that they would resort to subpoenas if necessary.
“The federal government is supposed to work for the American people, but whistleblower evidence shows that several federal employees were working overtime to cover up for the Bidens. We need to hear from these federal employees and other witnesses about this weaponization of federal law enforcement power,” the chairmen said in a statement. “Americans are counting on us to ensure bad actors are held accountable and restore the equal enforcement of the law.”
The three committees working together follows testimony given to Ways and Means by two IRS whistleblowers, Supervisory Agent Gary Shapley, and an unnamed source, claiming that Weiss was blocked by the Justice Department from bringing charges in the jurisdiction of his choice and that his request for a special counsel was denied. This flies in the face of what Weiss previously said about him having “ultimate authority” on the entire case.
Attorney General Merrick Garland denied political interference and said Weiss was free to pursue the charges he wanted against Hunter Biden.
The whistleblowers also revealed WhatsApp messages between Hunter Biden and Chinese business associates where he invoked his father’s name a number of times while trying to get money.
“I am sitting with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment has not been fulfilled,” Hunter Biden told Chinese businessman Henry Zhao in a July 30, 2017, message. “I am very concerned that [Ye] has either changed his mind and broken our deal without telling me or that he is unaware of the promises and assurances that have been made have not been kept.”
These messages resulted in millions of dollars in payments going to Hunter Biden’s bank account just days after dropping his dad’s name.
The president has defended his son and called allegations of a criminal bribery scheme “malarkey.”
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The testimony from the whistleblowers also follows unverified allegations made in an FBI-generated FD-1023 document from a paid FBI informant that the head of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, paid Hunter Biden and then Vice-President Joe Biden each $5 million to pressure the Ukrainian government to fire a prosecutor allegedly investigating the company. Hunter Biden sat on the board of the company at the time.
The IRS whistleblowers claimed the DOJ “concealed” the information surrounding the foreign bribery allegations from investigators on Hunter Biden’s case.
