{"id":1960019,"date":"2023-06-29T07:08:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T11:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-sidelined-grassley-in-questioning-whistleblowers-because-he-knew-way-too-much\/"},"modified":"2023-06-29T07:10:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T11:10:47","slug":"democrats-sidelined-grassley-in-questioning-whistleblowers-because-he-knew-way-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-sidelined-grassley-in-questioning-whistleblowers-because-he-knew-way-too-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats sidelined Grassley in questioning whistleblowers due to his extensive knowledge."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-sidelined-grassley-in-questioning-whistleblowers-because-he-knew-way-too-much%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1960019&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>The release last week of the IRS whistleblowers\u2019 testimony to the House Ways and Means Committee exposed numerous scandals implicating the Department of Justice and FBI both in extensive efforts to interfere in the investigation and prosecution of the president\u2019s son and in a cover-up of the obstruction. But the details do something more: They reveal why Senate Democrats prevented Chuck Grassley from participating in the questioning of the whistleblowers \u2014 because the Iowa senator knew too much.<\/p>\n<p>One <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-media-lies-about-the-latest-special-counsel-revelations\/\" title=\"5 Media Lies About The Latest Special Counsel Revelations\">week ago today<\/a>, the House Ways and Means Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/waysandmeans.house.gov\/smith-testimony-of-irs-employees-reveals-biden-irs-doj-interfered-in-tax-investigation-of-hunter-biden-revealing-preferential-treatment-for-wealthy-and-politically-connected\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">released<\/a> transcripts of the sworn testimony of two IRS agents who had worked directly on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-is-a-rico-case-and-it-involves-potentially-the-incoming-president-of-the-united-states-assuming-hes-installed-tom-fitton-on-hunter-bidens-criminal-c\/\" title=\"\u201cThis Is a RICO Case and It Involves Potentially the Incoming President of the United States, Assuming He\u2019s Installed\u201d \u2013 Tom Fitton on Hunter Biden\u2019s Criminal Case\">criminal case<\/a> against Hunter Biden. The committee also made public supplemental information the whistleblowers provided the committee following their testimony, namely the IRS agents\u2019 claims that they neither saw, nor knew about, the FD-1023 summary detailing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bureaucrats-are-hell-bent-on-congress-rubber-stamping-fisa-so-they-can-snoop-without-warrants-or-consequences\/\" title=\"Officials want FISA approved to spy without warrants or consequences.\">confidential human source\u2019<\/a>s report that Hunter and Joe Biden each received $5 million in bribes from the Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-480984282\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-0e907cd0f0c8fde75405ca2a68ca923a fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-0e907cd0f0c8fde75405ca2a68ca923a\"><\/div>\n<p>The details released were explosive and established several scandalous points, including that the Delaware U.S. attorney\u2019s office appears to have buried the FD-1023 summary, even though former Attorney General Bill Barr stated he sent that evidence to U.S. Attorney David Weiss\u2019s office for further investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the buried FD-1023, Americans learned last week that IRS Criminal Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley and his direct report \u2014 the case agent in charge, known only as Agent X \u2014 both testified that the DOJ and the Delaware U.S. attorney\u2019s office placed numerous limitations on them and their investigative team, thwarting the investigation into Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Shapley also testified that Weiss had told him and several other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/instacart-cuts-staff-curbs-hiring-before-ipo-the-information\/\" title=\"Instacart cuts staff, curbs hiring before IPO \u2013 The Information\">senior-level employees<\/a> that he was \u201cnot the deciding person on whether charges are filed.\u201d According to Shapley, Weiss further maintained that the U.S. attorneys in California and D.C. refused to file charges against Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The scandal here is two-fold: First, other U.S. attorneys, both of whom were appointed by President Biden, blocking charges from being filed against the president\u2019s son represents a serious conflict of interest. Second, the whistleblower\u2019s testimony that Weiss said he was \u201cnot the deciding person\u201d on whether to charge Hunter Biden directly conflicts with Attorney General Merrick Garland\u2019s Senate testimony.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9752a2a5a57689a4cff5895c28e5e2a2 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9752a2a5a57689a4cff5895c28e5e2a2\"><\/div>\n<p>These details are all huge, but one must wonder what other damning information the country might have learned had Grassley been afforded the opportunity to question the whistleblowers. After all, the transcript reveals several lines of inquiry tacked to the Iowa senator\u2019s oversight work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Most significantly, in his opening comments to the Ways and Means Committee, Shapley stressed that Garland\u2019s March 1, 2023, testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee was \u201cclearly false.\u201d It was on that date that Grassley asked whether Weiss was able to file charges in other districts. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-sidelined-grassley-in-questioning-whistleblowers-because-he-knew-way-too-much\/\" title=\"Democrats sidelined Grassley in questioning whistleblowers due to his extensive knowledge.\">attorney general unequivocally stated<\/a>, \u201cThe United States Attorney had been advised that he has full authority to make those referrals you\u2019re talking about <strong>or to bring cases in other districts if he needs to do that.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As Shapley testified, however, on Oct. 7, 2022, Weiss told the investigative team he \u201cwas not the deciding person.\u201d Shapley also provided the committee with an email he had sent the same day to another attendee, summarizing Weiss\u2019s words \u2014 words that directly conflict with Garland\u2019s testimony to the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Because Grassley forced Garland to explain, on the record, whether Weiss held ultimate charging authority, a very public and very clear conflict exists between Garland\u2019s testimony and Shapley\u2019s. And while the press seemed happy to ignore Shapley\u2019s testimony, the potential that the attorney general lied to the Senate is forcing the media to cover the issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6481f4e6316180ce56eb66a73ba4a35a fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6481f4e6316180ce56eb66a73ba4a35a\"><\/div>\n<p>Shapley also testified that until Grassley had questioned Garland, the case appeared to be \u201cnot moving forward.\u201d While the slap-on-the-wrist plea agreement is nothing to celebrate, it appears the DOJ was content to bury everything had Grassley not put the attorney general on the record.<\/p>\n<p>It is also thanks to Grassley and the honorable whistleblower who placed his (or her) faith in the Iowa senator that we know about the FD-1023 summary of the CHS\u2019s report that the Burisma executive bribed Hunter and Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The IRS whistleblowers testified to the House Ways and Means Committee that they were not aware of an FD-1023. Then, after AG Barr publicly confirmed that the FD-1023 had been sent to Delaware for further investigation, the whistleblowers provided supplemental statements to the committee, stressing they had never seen \u201cthis FBI Form 1023,\u201d and do not recall hearing about the information being turned over to the Delaware investigative team.<\/p>\n<p>Grassley, however, not only knew of the FD-1023 form before the House committee questioned the whistleblowers, but had a copy of the form, which allowed him to reveal facts that the FBI was hiding from the Ways and Means Committee. For instance, the FBI redacted the CHS\u2019s statement that the Burisma owner had 17 recordings of telephone conversations with the Bidens \u2014 15 with Hunter and two with Joe.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder, then, that Senate Democrats worked to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/05\/25\/emails-show-ron-wydens-office-lied-about-irs-whistleblower-backing-out-of-senate-meeting\/\">block<\/a> Grassley from questioning the whistleblowers, even though the whistleblowers requested to participate in a bicameral and bipartisan hearing and had directed that request to, among others, Grassley.<\/p>\n<p>It is no surprise that whistleblowers want to talk to Grassley: They have no stauncher advocate than the Iowa senator. And from the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/05\/31\/breadcrumbs-from-a-buried-fbi-source-may-lead-to-a-bigger-biden-scandal\/\">breadcrumbs<\/a> Grassley has been dropping over the last couple of years, much more is yet to come.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c408137785d4c25301962c8781074246 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c408137785d4c25301962c8781074246\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent IRS whistleblowers&#8217; testimony to the House Ways and Means Committee unveiled multiple scandals involving the Department of Justice and FBI. These scandals include their significant interference in the investigation and prosecution of the president&#8217;s son, as well as a cover-up of the obstruction. Moreover, the revealed details serve a greater purpose by shedding light on the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":1960020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1960019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1960019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1960020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}