The Federalist has reviewed the entirety of the 170-page transcript of the testimony of Thomas Sobocinski, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Baltimore field office. Sobocinski, who testified last Thursday before the House Judiciary Committee about the Hunter Biden investigation, disputed much of what IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley told the House Ways and Means Committee. It is hard to take Sobocinski seriously, though, given his incredible testimony about David Weiss’s supposed authority.
Weiss Had Full Authority to Charge Hunter — Well, Sorta, Not Really
When Sobocinski sat for questioning last week by the House Judiciary Committee, he was accompanied by two attorneys — one from the DOJ and one from the FBI. As the committee noted, the attorneys represented the DOJ and FBI and not Sobocinski personally. And boy, did they do that zealously, keeping Sobocinski from answering the majority of the questions posed.
One area of inquiry the DOJ and FBI attorneys allowed, though, concerned Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss and his purported authority to prosecute Hunter Biden.
“I was consistently aware that David Weiss had the authority in the U.S. to bring the charges where venue presented itself,” the special agent in charge testified. Sobocinski would repeat that claim multiple times during the transcribed interview, unequivocally stating, from “the minute I got there in July of ’21, it was always the understanding and the communication between David Weiss and myself is that he had that authority to bring it on behalf of the Department.”
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