By Ben Whedon
The legal counsel for an IRS whistleblower who has alleged that the Department of Justice has been working to undermine an investigation into Hunter Biden said Friday that he expects his client “will be able to share his allegations with Congress.”
In late April, Just the News reported that an IRS whistleblower was alleging that federal prosecutors had engaged in “preferential treatment and politics” to prevent tax charges from being filed against the president’s son.
The whistleblower’s allegations appear to contradict sworn testimony from Attorney General Merrick Garland that Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, who has been heading up the investigation, had full authority to pursue the case without fear of political interference.
Speaking on the “Just the News, No Noise” television show on Friday, Empower Oversight President Tristan Leavitt, who is representing the anonymous whistleblower, revealed that congressional leaders have received the allegations with interest and are likely to hold hearings to air his client’s claims.
Missouri Republican Rep. Jason Smith “has identified that their committee on House Ways and Means is committed to thoroughly hearing these allegations, and so we look forward to a process,” Leavitt told host John Solomon and cohost Amanda Head. “We are engaged with both sides of the aisle, and we anticipate that ultimately, our client, a very, very courageous and well-respected whistleblower, will be able to share his allegations with Congress.”
In a letter to congressional oversight leaders outlining the allegations, co-counsel Mark Lytle wrote:
The protected disclosures: (l) contradict sworn testimony to Congress by a senior political appointee, (2) involve failure to mitigate clear conflicts of interest in the ultimate disposition of the case, and (3) detail examples of preferential treatment and politics improperly infecting decisions and protocols that would normally be followed by career law enforcement professionals in similar circumstances if the subject were not politically connected.
Head pressed Leavitt on the prospect of retaliation against the whistleblower, citing comments from IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel, who told Congress recently, “I can say, without any hesitation, there will be no retaliation for anyone making an allegation or a call to a whistleblower hotline.”
Leavitt warily noted the narrow wording of Werfel’s assurance. “Well, the proof’s in the pudding, right?” he said with a chuckle. “If you notice, even in his comment, he specifically said, anyone who makes a disclosure to a ‘whistleblower hotline.’ And the law that protects whistleblowers — going back to the Whistleblower Protection Act, 1989, and before that — is much broader than that.
“So IRS whistleblowers, just like other title 5 employees in the federal government, have protection for a broad variety of disclosures whether or not they go through the IRS’ hotline. Certainly, we will be very vigorously watching to ensure that there is no further retaliation of our client.
“Again, he’s doing the right thing for the right reasons, and we’re going through the process that is absolutely the way Congress intended it to be followed. And so, you know, we’ll be watching closely to see what the IRS does at this stage.”
This is bigger then Watergate and far more serious
No doubt the Ministry of Propaganda is meeting at this moment to formulate a plan to suppress and discredit what comes from the whistle blower. Will it be “Russian disinformation”? Is this considered a “hack”? Will the whistle blower simply be smeared as a homophobic, racist, white supremacist, Maga, transgender-hating insurrectionist traitor?
Idiot Biden is corrupt, in addition to being disastrously incompetent. But the worst part of it all is that most of us KNEW that prior to the Democrats using massive election fraud to put this fool in office. Long lasting damage has already been done and the historic disaster on our southern border is now irreversible.
Impeachment is far too good and lenient for this, and anyone still supporting, this piece of shit.