IRS whistleblowers challenge AG Garland’s claim Biden probe free of political interference | Just The News

In painstaking detail, Internal Revenue Service whistleblowers are directly challenging Attorney General Merrick Garland’s claim that David Weiss, the U.S. attorney in Delaware, was allowed to run his Hunter Biden tax probe free of political interference.

During a recent Senate hearing, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) asked Garland to describe what would happen if Weiss wanted to pursue charges against President Biden’s son outside of his Delaware jurisdiction, considering Garland hadn’t made him a Justice Department special counsel. 

“If it’s in another district, he would have to bring the case in another district,” Garland responded. “But as I said, I promise to ensure that he’s able to carry out his investigation and that he’d be able to run it. And if he needs to bring it in another jurisdiction, he will have full authority to do that.”

According to a transcript released Thursday by the House Ways and Means Committee of an interview with an anonymous IRS whistleblower, a “contentious meeting” involving Weiss, IRS investigators and FBI agents took place in October 2022.

“And they had asked [Garland] about this, about bringing the case in D.C., and he explained that [Weiss] was essentially told no,” the whistleblower said. “And then he went back and asked for special counsel authority, and they told him no. I don’t think they said who he went back to, but they told him no.”

via justthenews.com