{"id":1975150,"date":"2023-07-17T13:29:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T17:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ways-and-means-chairman-jason-smith-to-participate-in-hearing-with-irs-whistleblowers\/"},"modified":"2023-07-17T13:32:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T17:32:41","slug":"ways-and-means-chairman-jason-smith-to-participate-in-hearing-with-irs-whistleblowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ways-and-means-chairman-jason-smith-to-participate-in-hearing-with-irs-whistleblowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Smith, Ways and Means Chairman, to join IRS whistleblowers hearing."},"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%2Fways-and-means-chairman-jason-smith-to-participate-in-hearing-with-irs-whistleblowers%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=1975150&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--><h2>House Ways and Means \u2063Chairman to Participate \u200bin\u2063 Hearing with \u2062IRS Whistleblowers<\/h2>\n<p>House\u200d Ways\u200c and Means Committee Chairman\u200b Jason Smith (R-MO)\u200c will be joining\u200c the House Oversight \u200dCommittee&#8217;s Wednesday hearing, where two IRS whistleblowers\u2064 will\u200b testify\u200c about alleged interference by the Justice \u200cDepartment in the criminal \u2063investigation into Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Despite not being a\u2063 member \u2064of \u200cthe Oversight \u200cCommittee, Smith expressed his involvement\u2063 in \u2062the hearing, stating, \u2064&#8221;People will\u200d want \u200dto watch the hearing.&#8221; He hinted \u2063at the possibility of new information being revealed during \u2062the proceedings.<\/p>\n<h3>Engaging \u200cTestimony \u200cExpected<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;ll \u2063be a lot of \u200dinformation \u2062that\u2063 Americans will\u200b want to know about,&#8221; \u200bSmith emphasized. \u2064A spokesperson for the House Oversight Committee confirmed\u200d that the Missouri Republican\u200b would indeed\u2062 participate in\u2064 the \u200chearing.<\/p>\n<p>House \u200cJudiciary\u2062 Committee \u2063Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), who is also a member of the\u2063 House \u200cOversight Committee,\u2062 will be \u200dpresent\u200b at \u2063the hearing as well.<\/p>\n<p>The two \u200cwhistleblowers, IRS supervisory\u200c agent Gary Shapley and \u200dan anonymous whistleblower \u200breferred \u2064to\u2064 as\u2064 &#8220;whistleblower x,&#8221; initially testified\u200b before the \u2063Ways\u2063 and Means \u2063Committee, which holds \u200djurisdiction \u200bover\u200b the\u2064 matter. They alleged\u200d that the DOJ obstructed Biden&#8217;s criminal \u2062investigation \u200dby impeding the lead U.S.\u2063 attorney, \u200cDavid Weiss,\u200c from \u2063pursuing\u2063 charges\u200c in his \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-investigation-house-gop-request-interviews-with-david-weiss-and-12-federal-officials\/\" title=\"House GOP requests interviews with David Weiss and 12 federal officials for Biden investigation.\">preferred jurisdiction<\/a> and \u2063denying \u2063his \u2063request for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-ag-bill-barr-to-merrick-garland-appoint-a-special-counsel-already\/\" title=\"Former AG Bill Barr To Merrick Garland: Appoint A Special Counsel Already\">special counsel status<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Exciting\u200c Revelation Expected<\/p>\n<p>The \u2062identity\u2062 of &#8220;whistleblower x&#8221; \u200cwill\u200b be\u2062 unveiled \u200bduring Wednesday&#8217;s\u2063 hearing. \u200bBoth Weiss and \u200bAttorney General \u2063Merrick Garland have denied\u2064 the allegations \u2063made by the\u2064 whistleblowers.<\/p>\n<p>In\u2062 addition \u2063to their claims of interference, \u2062the \u200bwhistleblowers presented new evidence\u200b related to \u2064Biden, including\u200c text\u2064 messages with a Chinese business associate\u200d where\u2064 he exploited his father&#8217;s name to secure\u200b financial \u2063gains. These actions\u2064 resulted in millions\u200d being deposited into Biden&#8217;s account.<\/p>\n<p>The whistleblowers \u200calso testified that they faced\u200b retaliation from \u200cthe IRS for \u200cdisclosing protected information \u2063to Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Collaborative \u200bInvestigation<\/p>\n<p>Following\u2063 the testimony, the House Oversight, \u200bJudiciary, and Ways \u2062and Means committees joined\u2063 forces \u2064to \u200dfurther investigate the alleged misconduct at the DOJ \u200dand the IRS.\u2062 In \u2064early \u2064July, the three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ways-and-means-chairman-jason-smith-to-participate-in-hearing-with-irs-whistleblowers\/\" title=\"Jason Smith, Ways and Means Chairman, to join IRS whistleblowers hearing.\">committees\u200b requested transcribed interviews<\/a>\u2064 with\u200b over 13 employees \u200bfrom the\u2064 IRS, DOJ,\u2062 and Secret \u200cService \u200bto \u2063gain a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/university-of-wisconsin-campus-asks-students-to-take-21-week-equity-challenge\/\" title=\"University Of Wisconsin Campus Asks Students To Take 21-Week \u2018Equity Challenge\u2019\">deeper understanding<\/a>\u200b of \u2062the severity of the alleged interference in the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Attempts to Discredit<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the investigations, \u200cBiden&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/9-key-points-from-trump-campaign-press-conference-on-challenges-to-election-results\/\" title=\"9 Key Points from Trump Campaign Press Conference on Challenges to Election Results\">legal team<\/a>\u2063 has attempted to undermine \u200dthe credibility\u2064 of the\u200b whistleblowers and Chairman Smith. On\u2064 June \u206430, \u200cBiden&#8217;s\u200d attorney,\u200d Abbe\u200b Lowell,\u2063 sent a 10-page \u2063letter \u2062to \u2062Smith,\u2064 discrediting the whistleblowers\u200d and accusing\u200d Smith of contributing\u2062 to a &#8220;misinformation campaign&#8221; to harm Hunter Biden\u2063 and attack\u200d his father.<\/p>\n<p>Smith responded to \u2062these accusations, \u2063stating, &#8220;They&#8217;re the same attorneys \u200dthat the\u2064 whistleblower\u2064 stated in their 15-hour testimony that \u200csaid that\u200c they \u2062told Department\u200b of \u200dJustice prosecutors that if \u200dthey brought charges on the \u200cpresident&#8217;s \u2063son,\u2064 they \u2064would \u200dbe facing career \u2063suicide.\u200c That&#8217;s \u200cthe type \u200dof individuals you&#8217;re dealing with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The hearing\u200d with the IRS whistleblowers is\u2064 scheduled for 1 p.m.\u200c on \u2064Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) will join the House Oversight Committee&#8217;s hearing on Wednesday. He plans to participate in the discussion with the two IRS whistleblowers who claim that the Justice Department meddled in the Hunter Biden criminal investigation. Despite not being a member of the Oversight Committee, Smith expressed his involvement in the hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1975151,"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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1975150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/1975150","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1975150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1975151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1975150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1975150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1975150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}