We saw Hunter Biden defy the subpoena issued by the House Oversight Committee regarding his case.
READ: Hunter Skips Deposition After Self-Serving Speech, Invites Contempt Charge
But he wasn't the only person scheduled to be interviewed by Oversight this week. Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf's interview was on Thursday. Wolf was the person who IRS whistleblowers had pointed to as stopping them from doing things like investigating anything having to do with Joe Biden or "the big guy." She also had the investigators remove any reference to Joe Biden's name in a search warrant affidavit.
Wolf allegedly instructed FBI agents in August 2020 to remove references to Joe Biden from a search warrant affidavit, writing, “someone needs to redraft [the affidavit]… There should be nothing about Political Figure 1 in here,” according to an email released by the Ways & Means Committee.
“That email, I think, is super important because it’s a one-off example in writing of the constant concern of following investigative leads that might lead to Joe Biden,” Ziegler said Thursday in a Fox News interview.
“The FBI agents who drafted that affidavit, they believed that they had sufficient evidence — probable cause — to support including Political Figure 1 in that affidavit,” said the self-identified Democrat and veteran IRS agent, who worked on the case for five years
“That related to [Ukrainian energy company] Burisma, access to Joe Biden and access to the administration and there was ample evidence that was included in that affidavit that’s supported including Political Figure 1. That has a waterfall effect on the investigation because those emails that we’re searching for might not come through to the team.”
Investigators revealed that she tipped off Hunter Biden's people about a search intended for a storage unit thus compromising the potential search. Investigators also weren't allowed to search a guest house that Hunter stayed at, at Joe Biden's Wilmington home.
Shapley and Ziegler also said they were not allowed to get cellphone geolocation data that could have proved Joe Biden was with his son in July 2017 when Hunter sent a threatening text message to a Chinese government-linked businessman saying, “I am sitting here with my father,” and warning of retribution.
So her interview would be very important to getting at what was going on here, and how the case was being slow walked.
That is if she was allowed to talk. But as Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) explains here, she refused to answer "just about every question we had." Jordan also explained she said was doing so at the direction of the DOJ. There's also a discussion with Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) about this and some other issues in this clip. But the first couple of minutes are on this topic.
Rep. Scott Perry weighs in on former federal prosecutor Lesley Wolf interfering with investigations into the Biden family's business dealings pic.twitter.com/tuzvGPxgOv
— Mornings with Maria (@MorningsMaria) December 15, 2023
So that sounds like Biden's DOJ could potentially be interfering in the investigation yet again. Not only that but if she isn't willing to answer questions about what was going on, we have to assume there's a reason that she doesn't want to reveal that could get her in trouble.
She claimed in an opening statement that "she was legally obligated not to address specific allegations made by the whistleblowers because she is still constrained by Justice Department policies."
On top of that, Wolf left her position as an Assistant United States Attorney a few weeks ago, she said. The circumstances of her leaving are not clear.
So there's obviously a big problem in this case that her testimony -- or more accurately, non-testimony -- confirms. And it's not only her.
Other officials who have dodged requests for interviews include DOJ Tax Division officials Jack Morgan and Mark Daly, whose team pushed back on charging Hunter Biden during a June 2022 meeting, according to IRS tax investigators.
Something smells big time at the DOJ.