Array
Blam: The House Ways and Means Committee just dropped a howitzer round into the Justice Department’s bid to sweep the Biden scandals under the rug.
The release of whistleblower testimony and other findings implicates Attorney General Merrick Garland not only in perjury, but in full-on obstruction of justice.
The revelations also tie President Joe Biden far closer to Hunter’s sleaze.
It’s astonishing that Garland let the Hunter plea proffer proceed this week, when he had to know House Republicans were sitting on this dynamite.
For starters, Ways & Means chair Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.) told reporters that the prosecutor officially in charge of the case, Delaware US Attorney David Weiss, wanted to charge Hunter last year first in the District of Columbia and then in California, only to be denied both times.
That directly contradicts Garland’s sworn testimony — claims he affirmed under multiple followups.
Smith also says the Biden Justice Department repeatedly turned down Weiss requests for special-counsel status, which would’ve allowed him to charge (and investigate) as he saw fit, without political interference.
But the rot at Justice preceded the Biden presidency: The whistleblowers — who have no apparent motive to lie about anything, and indeed risked their careers by coming forward — allege multiple incidents in 2020 when prosecutors outright squashed parts of the investigation.
