Oversight Republican Subpoenas Feds Over Alleged Hunter Biden Interference

By Casey Harper (The Middle Sq.)

Home Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., stated Tuesday he’s sending six subpoenas as a part of an investigation into allegations of the Biden administration’s interference into the case of Hunter Biden, the president’s son.

Comer stated he’s subpoenaing U.S. Secret Service brokers, Division of Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and staff on the company.

“The Division of Justice initiated the Biden household coverup and now DHS underneath the management of Secretary Mayorkas is complicit in it,” Comer stated. “Investigators have been by no means capable of interview Hunter Biden throughout the legal investigation as a result of Secret Service headquarters and the Biden transition group have been tipped off in regards to the deliberate interview. This is only one of many examples of the misconduct and politicization throughout the Division of Justice’s investigation.”

DHS oversees the Secret Service.

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The subpoenas are a part of a broader investigation into the interference into the Hunter Biden case. Hunter Biden faces tax and gun-related legal costs for which a court docket listening to is ready. He additionally faces extra allegations of serving to coordinate a global “bribery scheme” utilizing his father, President Joe Biden, to rake in tens of millions of {dollars} from nations adversarial to the U.S.

Two IRS whistleblowers testified earlier than Congress over the summer time that the U.S. Division of Justice interfered of their investigation of Hunter Biden in what they thought-about an improper and weird method.

“The Oversight Committee – together with the Judiciary and Methods and Means Committees – is in search of interviews with key witnesses, together with staff on the Secret Service,” Comer stated. “The Division of Homeland Safety is obstructing our investigation by muzzling the Secret Service from offering a response to Congress. The American folks deserve transparency, not obstruction.”

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Comer, Home Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Methods and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., despatched a letter to the Secret Service in June wanting solutions to allegations that the Secret Service could have helped intervene into the investigation into Hunter Biden.

“Particularly, the Committees search to look at whistleblower claims that on December 7, 2020, a whistleblower was knowledgeable ‘that FBI headquarters had notified Secret Service headquarters, and the Biden transition group, about IRS CI’s plan to interview Hunter,’” the letter stated. “The whistleblower added, ‘this basically tipped off a gaggle of individuals very near President Biden and Hunter Biden and gave this group a chance to impede the strategy on the witnesses.’”

Comer stated the Secret Service was keen to adjust to the letter’s request for interviews, however that DHS blocked it.

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