A lawyer for the FBI told a former supervisory special agent with the bureau not to answer questions from the House Oversight Committee about its Hunter Biden investigation, according to a letter obtained Tuesday.
The letter, dated July 16, was allegedly delivered to the former agent the night before his interview with the House committee, where he had confirmed certain key portions of testimony from two Internal Revenue Service whistleblowers.
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“The Department expects that you will decline to respond to questions seeking non-public information likely covered by one or more components of executive privilege or other significant confidentiality interests, in particular information about deliberations or ongoing investigative activity in law enforcement matters,” FBI general counsel Jason Jones wrote in a letter obtained by the Washington Examiner.
Jones claimed that the investigation into Biden is still ongoing, which could limit what information is released by the bureau. The lawyer instead instructed the agent, who has not been identified, to refer the questions to the FBI's Office of Congressional Affairs so the bureau could consider how to answer the questions while protecting confidential information.
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