Attorneys for former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> visited the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Justice</a> on Monday as special counsel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/from-the-hague-to-obamas-irs-scandal-meet-jack-smith-the-new-special-counsel-to-investigate-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jack Smith</a> appears to be wrapping up his investigation into classified documents confiscated from Mar-a-Lago.
Members of Trump’s legal team, including James Trusty and Lindsey Halligan, were spotted entering the DOJ on Monday morning. Trump’s attorneys had asked on May 23 to meet with DOJ officials, including Attorney General Merrick Garland, to discuss potential prosecutorial misconduct.
“No President of the United States has ever, in the history of our country, been baselessly investigated in such an outrageous and unlawful fashion. We request a meeting at your earliest convenience to discuss the ongoing injustice that is being perpetrated by your Special Counsel and his prosecutors,” the May 23 <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110420928827917285" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> said.
The attorneys were first spotted walking into the Justice Department by CBS News.
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Garland tapped Smith in November to investigate the storage of classified material in Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Florida residence and resort, after Trump left the White House in January 2021. Smith is reportedly nearing a charging decision on the storage of classified documents and on obstruction of justice.
Trump has said he declassified the material before moving it to Mar-a-Lago. The DOJ and National Archives obtained 15 boxes of material from Trump in early 2022 after rounds of negotiations. The FBI raided Trump’s resort in August and confiscated more boxes of material.
Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110488836716543576" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attacked</a> the special counsel investigation in a post on Truth Social over the weekend, alleging that the Justice Department has a double standard in its treatment of him versus President Joe Biden, who was found to have kept classified documents at his private office in Washington, D.C., and in his Delaware home.
“Reports are the Marxist Special Prosecutor, DOJ, &amp; FBI, want to Indict me on the BOXES HOAX, despite all of the wrongdoing that they have done for SEVEN YEARS, including SPYING ON MY CAMPAIGN,” Trump posted. “Biden Crimes go unpunished, including that he had Boxes in Chinatown, in his garage by the “Corvette,” &amp; 1,850 Boxes in Delaware that he won’t allow anyone to see. That is real OBSTRUCTION!&#8221;
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“They seek retribution for Republicans looking into Biden’s CRIMES! I HAVE DONE NOTHING WRONG. ELECTION INTERFERENCE!” he added.
Smith took over the investigation into the material stored at Mar-a-Lago, as well as parts of the DOJ investigation into January 6, and Trump’s alleged role in the riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Donald Trump

Trump Attorneys Visit DOJ After Accusing Special Counsel Of Misconduct

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Politics

Washington D.C.

Whistleblowers have reportedly come forward to allege that the FBI did not follow its standard practices in its criminal investigation of President Joe Biden&#8217;s son, Hunter Biden.
CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hunter-biden-investigation-whistleblower-disclosures-allege-fbi-procedures-not-followed-chuck-grassley-james-comer/">reported</a> that the &#8220;multiple Justice Department whistleblowers&#8221; have come forward to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) in his investigation into the Biden family to allege misconduct by federal investigators.
Multiple sources told the publication that the whistleblower disclosures specifically raised concerns surrounding the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden, including allegations that &#8220;irregular handling&#8221; of evidence had taken place and that &#8220;standard investigatory procedures were not being followed.&#8221;
The whistleblowers alleged that evidence damaging to Hunter Biden was labeled disinformation even though it was possible to verify or had already been verified. The whistleblowers also claimed that some of the damaging evidence was placed in restricted systems that other investigators could not access or review.
The news comes after a whistleblower came forward earlier this month to Grassley&#8217;s office and alleged that the FBI has evidence showing that then-Vice President Joe Biden was involved in a criminal bribery scheme with a foreign national.
Grassley and House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-KY) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whistleblower-alleges-fbi-has-evidence-of-biden-engaging-in-bribery-scheme-with-foreign-national">released</a> a joint statement saying that the whistleblower was “highly credible.”
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“Based on those disclosures, it has come to our attention that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) possess an unclassified FD-1023 form that describes an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions,” a letter from Comer and Grassley said to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray.
“It has been alleged that the document includes a precise description of how the alleged criminal scheme was employed as well as its purpose,” the letter continued. “Based on the alleged specificity within the document, it would appear that the DOJ and the FBI have enough information to determine the truth and accuracy of the information contained within it.”

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Multiple DOJ Whistleblowers Allege FBI Did Not Follow Procedures In Criminal Probe Of Hunter Biden: Report

Chuck Grassley

Hunter Biden

The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Justice</a> filed a lawsuit against Republican <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/west-virginia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">West Virginia</a> Governor Jim Justice’s coal empire on Wednesday, accusing it of possessing millions in unpaid civil penalties.
The lawsuit targets 13 coal businesses owned or operated by the Justice family, as well as the governor’s adult son. The Republican governor is the leading candidate to take on Democratic Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-manchin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Manchin</a> in 2024.
“[T]he total amount of the penalties and [Abandoned Mine Land] fees, plus interest, penalties and administrative expenses, owed by the defendants is approximately $7.6 million,” the DOJ said in a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-files-civil-action-collect-unpaid-civil-penalties-and-reclamation-fee-debts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>.
“Over a five-year period, defendants engaged in over 130 violations of federal law, thereby posing health and safety risks to the public and the environment,” U.S. Attorney Christopher R. Kavanaugh for the Western District of Virginia said. “After given notice, they then failed to remedy those violations and were ordered over 50 times to cease mining activities until their violations were abated. Today, the filing of this complaint continues the process of holding defendants accountable for jeopardizing the health and safety of the public and our environment.”
Justice’s office did not immediately respond to The Daily Wire’s request for comment.
Justice announced in April that he intends to run for U.S. Senate in 2024. The governor was reportedly a favorite recruit of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to challenge Manchin, a moderate Democrat.
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Justice is leading Manchin in the hypothetical matchup, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4026468-justice-tops-manchin-by-22-points-in-new-poll-on-senate-race/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> an East Carolina University Center for Survey Research poll. The poll, released Tuesday, showed the governor leading the senator by 22 points, with 54% in favor of Justice, 32% supporting Manchin, and 13% of voters undecided.
Justice came into the governor’s office in 2016 as a Democrat but <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/03/jim-justice-party-change-republican-241300" target="_blank" rel="noopener">flipped</a> to the GOP in 2017. He <a href="https://www.journal-news.net/journal-news/justice-wins-re-election-becomes-first-elected-republican-since-underwood/article_4459cdf9-c211-5394-8d7c-309c6fda724c.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ran</a> for reelection in 2020 as a Republican, beating his Democratic challenger by more than 30 points. Justice is the first Republican elected as West Virginia’s governor since 1996.

Jim Justice

DOJ Targets Jim Justice’s Coal Empire As West Virginia Governor Readies 2024 Senate Bid

West Virginia

The U.S. Marshals Service on Wednesday said the agency recovered 225 missing children as young as six months old — who were victims of child sex trafficking and other forms of exploitation and abuse — during a 10-week national operation.
Federal authorities partnered with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and state and local agencies in 16 federal districts across the U.S. in &#8220;Operation We Will Find You,&#8221; which resulted in the recovery of 169 children and the safe location of 56 children who went missing as runaways or were abducted by noncustodial parents.
&#8220;These missing children were considered some of the most challenging recovery cases in the area, based on indications of high-risk factors such as victimization of child sex trafficking, child exploitation, sexual abuse, physical abuse, and medical or mental health conditions,&#8221; officials said in a <a href="https://www.usmarshals.gov/news/press-release/us-marshals-find-225-missing-children-16-locations-across-nation-during" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>.
Data released by the agency shows that 86% of the children were runaways, 9% were family abductions, and 5% were considered otherwise missing.
According to the agency, federal authorities referred 28 cases related to drug and weapons possession, sex trafficking, and failing to register as a sex offender.
&#8220;Operation We Will Find You is a great example of how the U.S. Marshals Service continues to prioritize child protection,&#8221; Michelle DeLaune, NCMEC president &amp; CEO.
During the operation, authorities found 42 children outside the city where they went missing, and ten children were found outside of the United States in Mexico.
Over 20 cases originated from the Eastern District of Washington. Authorities said 16 of those children were recovered and returned to their families.
&#8220;Reuniting missing children with loved ones and connecting them with appropriate services is a mission in which the United States Marshals Service takes great pride,&#8221; said U.S. Marshal Craig Thayer.
During the operation, authorities also located and arrested a Top 15 Most Wanted Couple that had fled to Mexico from Washington with their five children, who they had taken into hiding.
Since 2015 after lawmakers passed the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, which increased the U.S. Marshals Service to assist law enforcement agencies in recovering endangered missing children regardless of whether a fugitive or sex offender was involved, federal authorities and NCMEC have located over 3,100 missing children.
&#8220;The U.S. Marshals Service is fully committed to the important mission of protecting the American people, especially our most vulnerable population – our children,&#8221; Ronald Davis, director of the Marshals Service, said in a news release.

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225 Missing Children Located During 10-Week Operation: Authorities

Child Sex Abuse

Human Trafficking

U.S.

The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/internal-revenue-service-irs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Internal Revenue Service</a> (IRS) whistleblower who claims the criminal investigation into <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a> is being mishandled has revealed his identity.
Gary Shapley, a supervisory special agent, appeared on-camera Wednesday night for <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/irs-whistleblower-tax-probe-hunter-biden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an interview with CBS News</a> a little more than a week after he said his entire team was abruptly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/irs-whistleblowers-team-getting-kicked-from-hunter-biden-probe-lawyers-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">removed</a> from the case at the behest of the Department of Justice (DOJ).
&#8220;There were multiple steps that were slow-walked,&#8221; he said, insisting that this was done &#8220;at the direction of the Department of Justice.&#8221;
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Shapley won&#8217;t publicly identify the subject of the inquiry with which he was involved, citing tax secrecy laws, but media reports have confirmed Hunter Biden is that individual.
Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, announced not long after the 2020 election that <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hunter-biden-long-gop-political-target-reveals-subject/story?id=74634682" target="_blank" rel="noopener">federal investigators were looking into his tax affairs</a>. The first son has said he <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/546384-hunter-biden-says-he-is-100-certain-he-will-be-cleared-of/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expects to be cleared of wrongdoing</a>. The investigation is being led by Delaware-based U.S. Attorney David Weiss.
A 14-year veteran of the IRS, Shapley says he was assigned to the case in January 2020 and, by that summer, began to raise concerns about &#8220;deviations&#8221; in the investigative process. &#8220;Each and every time, it seemed to always benefit the subject,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;I just couldn&#8217;t, you know, fathom that DOJ might be acting unethically on this,&#8221; Shapley added.
Last month it first became public that Shapley was seeking to make protective whistleblower disclosures to Congress and had already contacted multiple inspectors general. Beyond allegations of preferential treatment and &#8220;politics improperly infecting decisions,&#8221; lawyers for Shapley said their client had information that would &#8220;contradict sworn testimony to Congress by a senior political appointee&#8221; <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/04/20/merrick-garland-at-center-of-hunter-biden-whistleblower-claim/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">identified</a> as Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/merrick-garland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Merrick Garland</a>, who has pledged not to interfere with the investigation.
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Shapley claims that he began to feel retaliated against, starting with a meeting and then a phone call in October 2022, during which the U.S. attorney was made aware that members of the IRS and FBI had concerns about the handling of the case. Shapley&#8217;s team then got excluded from prosecutorial discussions, and last week his entire team was dismissed from the case altogether, one of Shapley&#8217;s <a href="https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2023-05/2023-05-17_Shapley_PPP_complaint_Redacted.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawyers wrote in a letter</a> to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, an independent federal agency <a href="https://osc.gov/Agency" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged with safeguarding whistleblowers</a>.
The U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office for the District of Delaware declined to comment to The Daily Wire when contacted about the claims of misconduct. IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel wrote to Congress, assuring lawmakers that he has not &#8220;intervened&#8221; in a way that would affect the status of any whistleblower. He also emphasized that the IRS <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/irs-commissioner-denies-intervention-retaliate-against-whistleblowers-connected-hunter-biden-complaint" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;follows the direction of&#8221;</a> the DOJ in any matter involving federal judicial proceedings.
Now Shapley plans to appear for a private meeting with the House Ways and Means Committee on Friday, according to a letter the supervisor&#8217;s lawyers <a href="https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2023-05/2023-05-22_Letter_to_Congress.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sent to Congress</a>.
Though Shapley is a registered Republican and his lawyers have worked with Republicans in Congress in the past, the supervisor stressed to CBS News that the &#8220;egregiousness&#8221; of what he witnessed compelled him to come forward.
&#8220;When taxpayers are treated differently — and subjects of investigations are treated differently,&#8221; Shapley said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t see how it doesn&#8217;t affect the fairness of the system.&#8221;

Democrats Hold Unprecedented Virtual Convention From Milwaukee

IRS Whistleblower Goes On Camera With Hunter Biden Probe Claims

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Whistleblowers

The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-military" target="_blank" rel="noopener">military</a> reportedly caught Jack Teixeira, arrested last month for allegedly leaking hundreds of classified documents, accessing and taking notes on classified data multiple times before he was charged, according to a court filing.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Justice</a> filed a motion Wednesday to deny Teixeira bail, arguing that the 21-year-old’s repeated disregard of protocol showed him to be a threat to national security who warranted strict detention. The filing showed that military officials warned Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, multiple times about inappropriately sifting around the Pentagon’s classified intelligence database, the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communication System, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/18/us/politics/airman-jack-teixeira-classified-secrets.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>.
According to a September 15, 2022, Air Force memo included in the DOJ’s filing, Teixeira “had been observed taking notes on classified intelligence information” inside a room for viewing classified material. The airman was warned “to no longer take notes in any form on classified intelligence information,” the memo said, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/17/leak-suspect-jack-teixeira/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>.
Another Air Force memo written about a month later said that Teixeira “was potentially ignoring the cease-and-desist order” and noted that he was told again to avoid “any deep dives into classified intelligence information” and to “focus on his job.”
In January, a third memo notes that Teixeira was seen by another member of his unit “viewing content that was not related to his primary duty and was related to the intelligence field.” The memo went on to say that Teixeira “had been previously notified to focus on his own career duties and to not seek out intelligence products.”
Teixeira underwent training as recently as March to prevent the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information, according to the NYT. Prosecutors said that Teixeira repeatedly transgressed military officials and protocol despite being &#8220;well aware of his obligations.&#8221;
Throughout the time that Teixeira was repeatedly caught and warned against inappropriately accessing classified material, Teixeira kept his job with the Air National Guard as well as his security clearance, which allowed him to access some of the most sensitive information known to the U.S. government.
Two of Teixeira’s superiors have been placed on leave while an investigation into the leaks continues, an Air Force spokeswoman told the NYT.
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Teixeira has been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/14/jack-teixeira-charged-pentagon-leaks-espionage-act" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged</a> with two Espionage Act violations that carry a penalty of 10 years in prison each. Prosecutors say that Teixeira shared hundreds of classified documents and intelligence online to a group of people located all over the world.
The intelligence was first shared to a private Discord server before one of its members began posting classified intelligence more widely. Dozens of documents later circulated online, causing the most serious U.S. intelligence breach in at least a decade.

Jack Teixeira

Military Caught Alleged Pentagon Leaker Taking Notes On Classified Docs Multiple Times Before Arrest, Court Filing Says

National Security

Pentagon

U.S. Air Force

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a> officials reportedly suspended or revoked the security clearances of agents who spoke up against “politicized rot” at the bureau.
In an interim report, the House Judiciary Committee and Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government revealed testimony from whistleblower FBI agents on the “abuses and misconduct in the FBI.” The report was first obtained by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-employees-security-clearances-revoked-speaking-out-politicized-rot-house-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>.
“The disclosures from these FBI employees highlight egregious abuse, misallocation of law enforcement resources and misconduct with the leadership ranks of the FBI,” the report says.
The whistleblowers accused the FBI of “retaliatory conduct” taken against the agents after they made “protected disclosures about what they believed in good faith to be wrong conduct.”
Two whistleblowers who say they were retaliated against appeared on Capitol Hill Thursday morning to testify to the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Former FBI special agent Steve Friend and FBI staff operations specialist Marcus Allen both told the committee that the FBI retaliated unjustly against them.
“It appears that I was retaliated against because I forwarded information to my superiors and others that questioned the official narrative of the events of January 6. As a result, I was accused of promoting conspiratorial views and unreliable information. Because I did this, the FBI questioned my allegiance to the United States,” Allen told the committee. He said he has been suspended from the FBI for the past year.
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The committee report said that Allen was suspended for conducting an open-source investigation of the January 6 riot as part of his job. Allen found and shared news articles and videos of the riot as part of his duties conducting case-related research.
“Because these open-source articles questioned the FBI’s handling of the violence at the Capitol, the FBI suspended Allen for ‘conspiratorial views in regard to the events of January 6th,’” the report states.
The report said that Friend was suspended after he made protected whistleblower disclosures about the FBI’s handling of Domestic Violent Extremism (DVE) cases related to January 6. It added that the bureau manipulated DVE data connected to January 6 to make domestic extremism seem widespread instead of originating with a single event.
“According to whistleblower information, the FBI has manipulated the manner in which it categorized January 6-related investigations to create a misleading narrative that domestic terrorism is organically surging around the country,” the report says, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/jordan-whistleblower-fbi-capitol-riot-mislead-domestic-terrorism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Examiner</a>. “Ordinarily, the FBI characterizes and labels cases according to the originating field office, with leads ‘cut’ to other field offices for specific assistance in that geographic location. With January 6 cases, however, the FBI has not followed its ordinary procedure, which would have resulted in the (Washington Field Office) leading the investigation and categorizing the investigations as WFO cases.”
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The FBI told lawmakers that the actions were taken against Allen because he “espoused alternative theories to coworkers verbally and in emails and instant messages sent on the FBI systems, in apparent attempts to hinder investigative activity,” according to a letter from the bureau and obtained by Fox News.
Friend, the FBI said, “refused to participate in the execution of a court authorized, search and arrest of a criminal subject.” The bureau also said that he also gave unapproved interviews to media and refused to attend a Security Awareness Briefing required after he “downloaded documents from FBI computer systems to an unauthorized removable flash drive.”

FBI Whistleblowers Detail ‘Egregious Abuse,’ Retribution From ‘Politicized’ Bureau, House Report Says

Congress

January 6

U.S. House of Representatives

A top House Republican wants the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/internal-revenue-service-irs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Internal Revenue Service</a> (IRS) to clarify what is happening with the criminal investigation into <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a> after lawyers for a whistleblower within the agency claimed his team got removed from the case.
Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) is requesting an &#8220;urgent briefing&#8221; from IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel&#8217;s office to address concerns about possible retaliation.
&#8220;These allegations are extremely serious. Such retaliation not only discourages whistleblowers from coming forward to Congress but can also constitute an illegal violation of statutory protections for whistleblowers,&#8221; Smith wrote in a letter to Werfel on Tuesday. The letter was <a href="https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2023-05/House%20Ways%20and%20Means%20letter%20to%20IRS%205.16.23.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published by Just the News</a>.
Lawyers for an IRS criminal supervisory special agent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/irs-whistleblowers-team-getting-kicked-from-hunter-biden-probe-lawyers-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote to Congress</a> on Monday to say their client had just been told that &#8220;he and his entire investigative team are being removed&#8221; from the Hunter Biden probe and was &#8220;informed the change was at the request of the Department of Justice.&#8221;
The &#8220;move is clearly retaliatory and may also constitute obstruction of a congressional inquiry,&#8221; lawyers Mark Lytle and Tristan Leavitt wrote.
The IRS agent, who has not been publicly identified, has sought to make protected whistleblower disclosures to Congress while raising concerns about lies and politics corrupting the criminal inquiry into Hunter Biden.
After Biden&#8217;s lawyers met with Department of Justice officials late last month, sources <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/03/hunter-biden-criminal-charges-david-weiss/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told The Washington Post</a> that potential charges for tax- and gun-related crimes may soon follow from Delaware&#8217;s U.S. Attorney David Weiss. Hunter Biden has said he expects to be cleared of wrongdoing, and his father, President Joe Biden, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-defends-son-hunter-ahead-possible-federal-tax-gun-charges-rcna83154" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told MSNBC</a> this month that his son has &#8220;done nothing wrong.&#8221;
The IRS and Justice Department have so far refused to respond directly to the claim that the IRS supervisor and his entire team had been pulled from the case.
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“In general, the IRS is deeply committed to protecting the role of whistleblowers, and there are robust processes and procedures in place to protect whistleblowers,&#8221; said an IRS statement <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/16/politics/irs-whistleblower-congress/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported by CNN</a>.
&#8220;As IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel has stated, we will not tolerate retaliation against any IRS employee making a whistleblower allegation,&#8221; the statement added. &#8220;When suggestions of wrongdoing are raised, we work with all appropriate parties, including the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, to ensure the integrity of the whistleblower process is safeguarded.&#8221;
The Justice Department has deferred to Weiss, whose office is so far not speaking out on the matter.
Smith requested a briefing from Werfel&#8217;s office by 5 p.m. on Thursday. &#8220;Failure to provide forthcoming and transparent information regarding the actions taken against this employee by your agency will necessitate additional Committee action,&#8221; he warned.

Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, and Valerie Biden, sister of US President Joe Biden

House Chairman Demands IRS Chief Answer For Alleged Hunter Biden Probe Shakeup

House Chairman Demands IRS Chief Answer For Alleged Hunter Biden Probe Whistleblower Retaliation 

Daily Wire editor emeritus <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ben-shapiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a> on Tuesday said that the Durham report released the day prior detailed “one of the most shocking scandals in the history of American law enforcement.”
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Justice</a> released a 306-page report on former special counsel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-durham" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Durham</a>’s investigations into the origins of the Russian collusion hoax on Monday. Durham’s report detailed “sobering” misconduct and corruption at the Department of Justice that involved Democratic officials and politicians.
“For years, Donald Trump had suggested that the FBI was out to get him, that they had colluded with the Clinton campaign, they’d colluded with the Obama administration, that the deep state had basically subverted his presidency. He said that it was the greatest scandal in American history, and it appears he was right,” Shapiro said at the top of his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1728-bombshell-report-reveals-the-most-shocking-political-scandal-in-american-history7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">show</a>.
Crossfire Hurricane began “during the [2016] presidential election season based on raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence,” Durham wrote. FBI officials, some with stated bias against Trump, used Clinton campaign-funded disinformation in the form of the Steele dossier and other falsified evidence to justify a probe into Trump that lasted years into his presidency.
“It is absolutely shocking. It is damning. It is apparent that everyone in the FBI knew that this investigation was bull crap right up front,” Shapiro said. “It was very clear the Clinton campaign was using the FBI to launder into public view and into law enforcement a bunch of bad allegations. It was clear that upper echelons of the Obama administration knew all of this was happening.”
“The Obama administration and the FBI were fully aware of the Clinton campaign plan to plant all this information, and they went ahead with it anyway,” Shapiro said, referring to a briefing that then-CIA Director John Brennan gave to then-President Obama, then-FBI Director James Comey, and other top officials in 2016. The focus of Brennan’s briefing was to alert top Obama administration officials that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, then a candidate for president, had allegedly approved a campaign effort to link Trump to Russia to damage his candidacy.
“Did the Obama administration step in and [tell the FBI,] ‘Hey, hold up, got to abide by the law here. The FBI and DOJ cannot launch investigations into the rival of our former secretary of state, especially now that we know that she’s attempting to get us to launch an investigation into her rival?’” Shapiro asked rhetorically. “Nope, they just went ahead with it. They just went ahead. This is insane.”
Shapiro emphasized the FBI’s central role in what the Durham report characterized as a failure of the bureau to adhere to its “guiding principles” of “Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity.” The central problem at the bureau, according to Durham, is that the officials involved lacked integrity, not training, oversight, or processes.
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Shapiro said the FBI’s conduct was “astonishing and frightening.”
“It is absolute madness to suggest that you should be able to open an investigation on this basis,” Shapiro said. “How exactly would that even work? And the answer is, of course, well, if you have agents and the agents have power, they can do whatever the hell they want.”
The Daily Wire host did take issue with some of Durham’s report. Durham did not recommend any further criminal action be taken against those involved in the scheme to undermine Trump’s campaign and presidency. Shapiro said that not acting against those accountable only encouraged something similar to happen again.
“The fact is the FBI and the DOJ would be a lot better off right now if they actually went and prosecuted some of these people, put some heads on spikes, and showed people that they were never going to let the FBI do this again,” Shapiro said.

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Ben Shapiro Dissects Durham’s Report: ‘Absolute Madness,’ DOJ Needs To ‘Put Some Heads On Pikes’

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John Durham

Special counsel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-durham" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Durham</a>’s <a href="https://www.justice.gov/storage/durhamreport.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> on the Department of Justice’s conspiracy-fueled investigation into alleged Trump-Russia collusion again raises questions about Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/adam-schiff" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Adam Schiff</a> (D-CA) and the extent to which he may have knowingly misled the American people.
Schiff prosecuted former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> in the court of public opinion for years while the congressman served as the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. In 2017, Schiff was the committee&#8217;s ranking member and privy to classified information not released to the public. He claimed that the evidence against Trump was “damning.”
“We continue to fill in all of the missing pieces, but we do know this: the Russians offered help, the campaign accepted help, the Russians gave help, and the president made full use of that help. And that is pretty damning whether it is proof beyond a reasonable doubt of conspiracy or not,” Schiff <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/12/10/adam-schiff-russian-collusion-damning-sot-sotu.cnn">said</a> during a December 2017 appearance on CNN.
The California Democrat lectured the then-president on the importance of integrity and honesty in public office.
“The president believes this investigation is an attempt to undermine his legitimacy or credibility. It is not,” Schiff <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10155367166089384" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in March 2017. “When a president of the United States makes claims that are proved baseless, it weakens the presidency and undermines our security and standing in the world.”
“Cherish the trust and hope that was placed in you by virtue of your office by never again advancing claims that you know — or should know — are simply not true,” Schiff said.
After a four year investigation, Durham has debunked Schiff’s claims, stating that the FBI opened up the investigation into Trump, code-named Crossfire Hurricane, “during the presidential election season based on raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence.” The FBI’s treatment of Trump differed starkly from its treatment of the Clinton campaign, according to Durham.
“Unlike the FBI&#8217;s opening of a full investigation of unknown members of the Trump campaign based on raw, uncorroborated information, in this separate matter involving a purported Clinton campaign plan, the FBI never opened any type of inquiry, issued any taskings, employed any analytical personnel, or produced any analytical products in connection with the information,” Durham’s report says.
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The FBI’s investigation rested significantly on “investigative leads provided or funded (directly or indirectly) by Trump&#8217;s political opponents,” which the bureau pursued without “adequately examin[ing] or question[ing] these materials and the motivations of those providing them,” the report says.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) ended Schiff’s stint on the intelligence committee earlier this year.
“Integrity matters,” McCarthy <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf2jNhdiLMk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in January, adding that Schiff used his position on the committee to lie to the American public “again and again.”

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FLASHBACK: Schiff Claimed ‘Damning’ Evidence Of Trump-Russia Collusion. It Was Democrat Hoax, Durham Report Shows

The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/internal-revenue-service-irs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Internal Revenue Service</a> (IRS) agent who alleges the criminal investigation into <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a> has been corrupted by lies and politics is being pulled from the inquiry in a possible act of retaliation, lawyers for the IRS official say.
These attorneys informed Congress on Monday that their client, identified as a criminal supervisory special agent, was told &#8220;that he and his entire investigative team are being removed from the ongoing and sensitive investigation of the high-profile, controversial subject about which our client sought to make whistleblower disclosures to Congress,&#8221; according to <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/05/15/irs-cans-investigative-team-from-hunter-biden-probe-in-move-whistleblower-claims-is-clearly-retaliatory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Post</a>.
Mark Lytle and Tristan Leavitt, the lawyers for the IRS agent, said their client was &#8220;informed the change was at the request of the Department of Justice.&#8221; They also said the &#8220;move is clearly retaliatory and may also constitute obstruction of a congressional inquiry.&#8221;
The Daily Wire reached out to the IRS as well as the Department of Justice (DOJ) seeking comment on the new claim.
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/06/politics/hunter-biden-investigation-federal-prosecutors-weighing-charges/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI and IRS</a> investigators have reportedly been looking into Hunter Biden&#8217;s business dealings, tax affairs, and more for years now. After Biden&#8217;s lawyers met with Department of Justice officials late last month, sources <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/03/hunter-biden-criminal-charges-david-weiss/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told The Washington Post</a> that potential charges for tax- and gun-related crimes may soon follow from Delaware&#8217;s U.S. Attorney David Weiss.
Hunter Biden has said he expects to be cleared of wrongdoing, and his father, President Joe Biden, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-defends-son-hunter-ahead-possible-federal-tax-gun-charges-rcna83154" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told MSNBC</a> this month that his son has &#8220;done nothing wrong.&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whistleblower-mania-rocks-hunter-biden-probe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IRS supervisory agent</a>, who has not been publicly identified, reached out to top lawmakers last month <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/irs-whistleblower-alleges-hunter-biden-probe-misconduct" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seeking to make protected whistleblower disclosures to Congress</a> about a high-profile investigation which has since been identified as the Hunter Biden probe. Lawyers for the IRS agent then <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/attorneys-for-irs-whistleblower-in-hunter-biden-probe-meet-with-congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">met with congressional investigators</a>, laying the groundwork for what could be a formal disclosure involving sensitive tax information in the near future, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/05/politics/hunter-biden-irs-whistleblower-congressional-investigation/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported this month.</a>
Lytle has revealed that his client already made disclosures to multiple inspectors general, including &#8220;examples of preferential treatment and politics improperly infecting decisions,&#8221; a &#8220;failure to mitigate clear conflicts of interest in the ultimate disposition of the case,” and claims that &#8220;contradict sworn testimony to Congress by a senior political appointee.&#8221; Lytle <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hunter-biden-investigation-irs-agent-requests-whistleblower-protections-congress/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told CBS News</a> that his client has emails and other communications to back up his disclosures.
The senior official referenced by Lytle in his letter to Congress <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/04/20/merrick-garland-at-center-of-hunter-biden-whistleblower-claim/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has been identified</a> as Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/merrick-garland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Merrick Garland</a>, who spoke briefly about the inquiry during congressional testimony in March. &#8220;I pledged not to interfere with that investigation and I have carried through on my pledge,&#8221; Garland <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/grassley-tells-garland-of-12-sources-with-potential-dirt-on-hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Pressed about the IRS whistleblower and his testimony during a recent news conference, Garland said his statement under oath remains true. “Yes, it’s still the case,” <a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1653490258544062464" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Garland said</a>. “I stand by my testimony and I refer you to the U.S. attorney for the district of Delaware, who is in charge of this case and capable of making any decisions that he feels are appropriate.&#8221;
Hunter Biden’s attorney, Chris Clark, told news outlets the IRS official &#8220;appears&#8221; to have committed a crime. &#8220;It is a felony for an IRS agent to improperly disclose information about an ongoing tax investigation,&#8221; Clark said in a statement reported by <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/irs-agent-wants-whistleblower-protections-discuss-hunter-biden-probe-rcna80564" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News</a>.
Lytle told Fox News the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/hunter-biden-investigation-irs-whistleblower-lawyer-condemns-attacks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement was &#8220;unfortunate&#8221;</a> but stressed that his client is not backing down. &#8220;Attacks like this are kind of what he was worried about, but he wants to come forward and tell the truth,&#8221; he said.
In their letter to lawmakers on Monday, the IRS agent&#8217;s lawyers highlighted sections of U.S. Code outlining rules against blocking or retaliating against officials seeking to make whistleblower disclosures to Congress and noted that IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel vowed to the House Committee on Ways and Means last month that there would be &#8220;<a href="https://nypost.com/2023/04/27/irs-head-vows-no-retaliation-for-whistleblowers-after-hunter-biden-claim/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">no retaliation</a>&#8221; against whistleblowers.
“We respectfully request that you give this matter your prompt attention,&#8221; the IRS agent&#8217;s lawyers wrote. &#8220;Removing the experienced investigators who have worked this case for years and are now the subject-matter experts is exactly the sort of issue our client intended to blow the whistle on to begin with.&#8221;

IRS Whistleblower’s Team Getting Kicked From Hunter Biden Probe, Lawyers Say

IRS Whistleblower's Team Getting Kicked From Hunter Biden Probe, Lawyers Say

Special counsel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-durham" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Durham</a>’s report on his investigation into the investigators of Trump-Russia collusion during the 2016 election is finished.
The report is finished and has been released to several outlets, according to reports. The full report is expected to be released at 4 p.m. EST, according to <a href="https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/1658192137601556496" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>.
The Washington Free Beacon’s Chuck Ross reported on Monday afternoon that the “Durham report is finished and dropping soon.” Minutes later, Ross tweeted that he had obtained the report, a 320-page document detailing Durham’s investigation.
“One quick thing that catches my eye: FBI ended one aspect of its investigation after ‘a longtime and valuable confidential human source’ made an ‘improper and possibly illegal campaign contribution’ to the Clinton campaign on behalf of a ‘foreign entity,’” Ross said.
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It&#39;s a 320-page report. One quick thing that catches my eye: FBI ended one aspect of its investigation after &quot;a longtime and valuable confidential human source&quot; made an &quot;improper and possibly illegal campaign contribution&quot; to the Clinton campaign on behalf of a &quot;foreign entity.&quot;
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Sean Davis, CEO and co-founder of The Federalist, also obtained a copy of the report. The report says, according to Davis, that Durham concluded that “neither U.S. nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.”
“FBI records prepared by [former FBI agent Peter] Strzok in February and March 2017 show that at the time of the opening of Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI had no information in its holdings indicating that at any time during the campaign anyone in the Trump had been in contact with any Russian intelligence officials,” the report says.
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MORE from Durham’s 306-page report, which <a href="https://twitter.com/FDRLST?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FDRLST</a> has obtained: “FBI records prepared by [Peter] Strzok in February and March 2017 show that at the time of the opening of Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI had no information in its holdings indicating that at any time during the…
&mdash; Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href="https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1658188829755334668?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Durham gave a harsh review of the FBI.
“Based on the review of Crossfire Hurricane and related intelligence activities, we concluded the Department and the FBI failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law in connection with certain events and activities described in this report,” the report says, according to <a href="https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/john-durham-releases-final-report-concluding-fbi-had-no" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Just The News</a>.
“The FBI personnel also repeatedly disregarded important requirements when they continued to seek renewals of that FISA surveillance while acknowledging – both then and in hindsight – that they did not genuinely believe there was probably cause to believe that the target was knowingly engaged in clandestine intelligence activities on behalf of foreign power,” the report said.

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