The Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, James Comer, has issued subpoenas to Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and other officials from the DHS and Secret Service.
The subpoenas are in connection with the alleged tip-off to Hunter Biden about a tax probe.
The committee is seeking testimony concerning the Secret Service's purported advance warning to the Biden transition team about the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) plans to interview Hunter Biden and others linked to the case.
James Comer told Fox News, "The Department of Justice initiated the Biden family cover-up and now DHS and the leadership of Secretary Mayorkas is complicit in it." He further stated that investigators were unable to interview Hunter Biden due to the Secret Service being tipped off.
In July, a former FBI agent corroborated earlier statements from IRS whistleblowers that the FBI had informed Secret Service headquarters about the intention to interview Hunter Biden. The committee reported, "As part of the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden, there were multiple witness interviews planned for December 8, 2020.
IRS Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley and the former FBI supervisory special agent were assigned to interview Hunter Biden. On the evening of December 7, 2020, Shapley and the FBI supervisory special agent learned that FBI headquarters had notified Secret Service headquarters about the planned interview with Hunter Biden. Additionally, they learned the Biden transition team was notified about the planned interview."
The committee further explained that this was not the original plan of the career agents, which frustrated their investigative efforts because people found out who didnt need to know.
"On December 8, 2020, Shapley and the FBI supervisory special agent were notified they would not be allowed to approach Hunter Bidens house and instead would have to wait near his residence until Hunter Biden contacted them.
The former FBI supervisory special agent told committee investigators he had never been told to wait outside to be contacted by the subject of an investigation," the committee revealed. "As a result of these actions, Shapley and the former FBI supervisory special agent never interviewed Hunter Biden."
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