Three House chairmen asked the Department of Justice Tuesday for any communications from Hunter Biden's attorneys about punishing a pair of Internal Revenue Service criminal investigators for speaking to Congress.

The chairmen, Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH), James Comer (R-KY), and Jason Smith (R-MO), asked Attorney General Merrick Garland in a letter obtained by the Washington Examiner to provide any communication to them that the department had received from Biden's lawyers "advocating for the investigation or prosecution" of the IRS agents, Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler.

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"Hunter Biden’s legal team is engaged in a brazen effort to intimidate and harass the brave Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whistleblowers who exposed numerous apparent irregularities in the Department’s investigation of Hunter Biden," the chairmen wrote to Garland.

They referenced a report by the New York Times in which the outlet said it had reviewed "more than 200 pages of confidential correspondence" between special counsel David Weiss and Biden's lawyers.

Based on that correspondence, the outlet found that Biden's lawyers had "contended to the Justice Department that by disclosing details about the investigation to Congress, [the IRS whistleblowers] broke the law and should be prosecuted."

The chairmen also pointed to a letter Abbe Lowell, a longtime attorney for high-profile Democrats, wrote to Smith in June in which he...

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