A dozen top federal officials, including David Weiss, are terrified of upcoming Congressional hearings for some reason. Eleven of them were named in a letter signed by the chairmen of three separate committees. The one who wasn’t named should be sweating bullets to know why. The only answer Assistant U.S. Attorney Derek Hines will be able to come up with is it’s because they have special plans for him.
Officials to get grilled
Congress is totally fed up with the word games that federal Justice Department officials have been playing. They aren’t even a little bit funny. Three separate committees teamed up to get the ball rolling on a list of important deep-dive depositions.
Jim Jordan on Judiciary, James Comer on Oversight and Ways and Means chair Jason Smith signed off on a letter to the guy who seems to really run this country, Merrick “I’m never gonna prosecute myself” Garland. They’re about to impeach him for that attitude, so he won’t be bothering them much longer.
In their letter dated Friday, July 21, they gave until Monday, July 24 to send over a list of proposed dates, for each name listed, to provide sworn testimony. The united lawmakers reminded the head of the Just Us Department that if they don’t have those interviews scheduled by the close of business Monday, process servers will be out scouring the district for DOJ officials to serve subpoenas on by nightfall.
Rep. @Jim_Jordan: “What were the Bidens doing to get the money? I mean, 20 different shell companies, 9 different Bidens getting paid. What was the service…the product…the value they add? The only logical explanation here is it was access to then-Vice President Biden.” pic.twitter.com/yH6RG1biL2
— GOP (@GOP) July 24, 2023
Time is of the essence because the judge is all set to rubber stamp Hunter’s sweetheart plea deal of the century on Wednesday, July 26. Things are moving just as fast on Garland’s impeachment paperwork. They already asked for these 11 interviews back on June 29.
Lead IRS agent Joseph Ziegler and his supervisor, Gary Shapley couldn’t wait to testify. They told Congress all about how “Justice Department officials obstructed standard investigative steps.” Bigtime.
Like tipping off “Biden’s team to a proposed storage-locker search,” and tipping them off to planned surprise interviews. Delaware assistant U.S. attorney Lesley Wolf is on the interview list for that. He also allegedly “steered IRS investigators away from analyzing Joe Biden’s role in Hunter Biden’s foreign dealings.” Despite evidence they already had which seemed to “directly implicate” Joe.
Washington word games
Two of the officials named are federal attorneys who allegedly “blocked tax fraud charges in Southern California and Washington, DC.” That would be Los Angeles-based US Attorney Martin Estrada and D.C. U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves. They will either confirm or deny what Garland and Weiss have been telling them. Someone is lying and nobody thinks it’s the whistleblowers.
Also, Congress can see through the little word games used to act like they’re not lying as they try to cover up both Biden family corruption and their own. After a five-year investigation, David Weiss charged Hunter Biden with “a probation-only plea deal for two tax-crime misdemeanors for the years 2017 and 2018.” That’s ridiculous, the investigators say. They found hard solid evidence of “$2.2 million in tax evasion on $8.3 million in foreign income earned between 2014 and 2019.”
He tried to write hookers off on his taxes and hid the family bribe income under a web of shell companies. The officials punished him with probation for the two misdemeanors they actually bothered to charge. Weiss is the one they really want to get on the stand, about the “shifting statements” he made about his authority to bring charges. It started as “I have been granted” the authority, then morphed into “I might be granted, someday.” But not before every single member of the Biden family is cleared of everything.
I care very little about party lines. I care very much about the future of United States of America.
All of these @GOP committees @Jim_Jordan @RepThomasMassie @ChuckGrassley @RepJamesComer in Washington are putting out some incredible evidence that should immediately lead to… pic.twitter.com/BLTCYRNDOI
— DrO (@Dr_Nurse_O) July 24, 2023
“Initially, in response to a letter addressed to you, Weiss asserted: ‘I have been granted ultimate authority over this matter, including responsibility for deciding where, when, and whether to file charges.‘” That’s true as long as there aren’t any charges. That changed to if “venue for a case lies elsewhere, common Departmental practice is to contact the United States Attorney’s Office for the district in question and determine whether it wants to partner on the case.”
That is the procedure, he simply had no intention of using it. Things start to narrow in like a noose around his neck when he wrote another letter to Lindsey Graham. In that one, he claimed he talked to people about whether they would do it if he asked and they said yes but he didn’t ask.
The lawmakers noted an important point in their letter, “he notably provided no explanation of who would make the determination of necessity.” Was that a predetermined decision made for the officials ahead of time? Don’t even think about filing any charges. You could end up suicided that way.