The release last week of the IRS whistleblowers’ testimony to the House Ways and Means Committee exposed numerous scandals implicating the Department of Justice and FBI both in extensive efforts to interfere in the investigation and prosecution of the president’s son and in a cover-up of the obstruction. But the details do something more: They reveal why Senate Democrats prevented Chuck Grassley from participating in the questioning of the whistleblowers — because the Iowa senator knew too much.
One week ago today, the House Ways and Means Committee released transcripts of the sworn testimony of two IRS agents who had worked directly on the criminal case against Hunter Biden. The committee also made public supplemental information the whistleblowers provided the committee following their testimony, namely the IRS agents’ claims that they neither saw, nor knew about, the FD-1023 summary detailing a confidential human source’s report that Hunter and Joe Biden each received $5 million in bribes from the Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma.
The details released were explosive and established several scandalous points, including that the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office appears to have buried the FD-1023 summary, even though former Attorney General Bill Barr stated he sent that evidence to U.S. Attorney David Weiss’s office for further investigation.
In addition to the buried FD-1023, Americans learned last week that IRS Criminal Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley and his direct report — the case agent in charge, known only as Agent X — both testified that the DOJ and the
