Just days after President Joe Biden's attorney general granted U.S. District Attorney David Weiss' request to move his Hunter Biden investigation under special counsel authority, the House Oversight Committee released evidence showing bias.
The committee on Monday released the testimony transcript of the former FBI whistleblower who corroborated IRS whistleblowers' allegations FBI headquarters tipped off Secret Service, which helped keep Hunter Biden from being interviewed.
"The Oversight Committee has no confidence in U.S. Attorney Weiss as special counsel given his inability to prevent the Biden transition team from being contacted, and federal agents were not permitted to interview Hunter Biden as planned," Chair James Comer, R-Ky., wrote in a statement, releasing the FBI whistleblower testimony with the FBI agent's name redacted.
"Under the Weiss-led investigation, investigators were prevented from taking steps that could have led to Joe Biden, the statute of limitations was allowed to run with respect to certain felonies, and the U.S. attorney's office sought to give Hunter Biden an unprecedented sweetheart plea deal.
"The House Oversight, Judiciary, and Ways and Means Committees will continue our investigation into the Justice Department's two-tiered system of justice and hold bad actors accountable."
The transcript shows the former 20-year FBI agent corroborated IRS Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley's testimony that FBI headquarters tipped off Secret Service headquarters, and the Biden transition team about the planned Hunter Biden interview during Weiss' investigation, according to Comer.
The former FBI agent and Shapley were then told not to approach Hunter Biden until they received a call that would never come because he was tipped off, multiple whistleblowers have now testified.
"Shapley and the FBI agent planned to interview Hunter Biden in December 2020, but learned the night before that the Biden transition team was tipped off," Comer's statement began. "They were told to not approach Hunter Biden and wait for his call. That never happened, and they never got to interview Hunter Biden.
"Tipping off the transition team and not being able to interview Hunter Biden as planned are just a couple of examples that reveal the Justice Department's misconduct in the Biden criminal investigation that occurred under U.S. Attorney Weiss' watch."
The unnamed former FBI agent testified he was planning to interview Hunter Biden in the investigation of his alleged tax crimes, but he believes the coordination between the Justice Department, Secret Service, and the Biden transition team – all while former President Donald Trump was still in office – gave Hunter Biden the "opportunity" to avoid being interviewed.
"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 of the witness," the former agent said in the transcript.
"I know I was upset when I learned about it."
As the IRS whistleblowers Joseph Ziegler and Shapley also testified before a public congressional hearing, those investigating Hunter Biden's tax crimes were never able to interview their subject.
"I felt it was people that did not need to know about our intent," the former agent added, according to the transcript. "I believe that the Secret Service had to be notified for our safety, for lack of confusion, for deconfliction, which we would do in so many other cases, but I didn't understand why the initial notification."
Hunter Biden was given the privilege to call when he was ready for the interview. He never called and the investigators, including were stonewalled, according to the former FBI agent's transcript.
"I was notified by my assistant special agent in charge that we would not even be allowed to approach the house; that the plan, as told to us, was that my information would be given to the Secret Service, to whom I don't know exactly, and, you know, my name, my contact, you know, my cell phone, for example, with the notification that we would like to talk to Hunter Biden; and that I was not to go near the house and to stand by," he continued.
Waiting outside of a target's home until they were allowed to talk to a target was unlike anything in the former FBI agent's 20-year career.
"There have been times where we waited for maybe something else operationally to happen, but, no, not from the point of view of the target, the subject of the investigation," the agent said in the transcript.
"We waited a period of time. You know, I will add, it was frustrating, and I know supervisor number two was very frustrated, and I understood that frustration."