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Documents released Wednesday by House Republicans shed new light on how two Internal Revenue Service agents who investigated Hunter Biden felt like they hit roadblocks whenever President Joe Biden’s name came up in the criminal probe.
However, some of the documents also show that senior Justice Department prosecutors believed there were legitimate reasons for investigators to steer away from the elder Biden. And there is no indication that the DOJ officials were acting at the request of senior leadership.
The roughly 700 pages of internal government documents became public after a party-line vote by the House Ways and Means Committee. The trove includes emails among IRS agents and Justice Department prosecutors, internal IRS reports, transcripts of interviews with witnesses in the criminal probe, handwritten notes from meetings and more.
The materials came from IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler, who turned over the files to back up their prior allegations of political interference in the Hunter Biden criminal probe. The new disclosures provide some context on their string of disagreements with federal prosecutors.
Internal Revenue Service whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler testify in the House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing about alleged meddling in the Justice Department's investigation of Hunter Biden on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC, in July.
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