An FBI special agent who appeared before the House Judiciary Committee last week testified that the Department of Justice's investigation of Hunter Biden moved noticeably slowly, an observation that aligns with testimony a pair of IRS criminal investigators gave to Congress in May.
Thomas Sobocinski, an FBI special agent in charge at the Baltimore Field Office, told the committee in a behind-closed-doors interview,"I would have liked for it to move faster," according to a full transcript of the interview obtained by the Washington Examiner.Sobocinski also repeatedly expressed to the committee that his focus in the Hunter Biden case was"moving it forward to a resolution," though he did not specify what that resolution involved.
"I'm going to be consistent. I'm not going to talk about the deliberative discussions we had on — which is now — which is an open investigation, which I'm still leading, and I still have a team that's out there doing this to move this forward," Sobocinski said. Also during the testimony, Sobocinski confirmed he was present at two key meetings, one on June 15, 2022, and one on October 7, 2022, that were raised by the IRS criminal agents-turned-whistleblowers when they testified to Congress in May.
The whistleblowers had said that based on their notes from the October meeting, Weiss conveyed that he did not have the authority he needed to bring the charges he wanted against Biden. Sobocinski said he did not recall that coming up and that he always believed Weiss had the authority he needed, but he later noted that there may have been an"administrative process" Weiss needed to go through.
Part of the inquiry, McCarthy said, would be investigating if Hunter Biden received"special treatment" from the DOJ. IRS Director of Field Operations Michael Batdorf met last week with the House Ways and Means Committee, a committee aide confirmed. Darrell Waldon, IRS special agent in charge, was scheduled to testify this week.
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