{"id":2017755,"date":"2023-08-31T05:40:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T09:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/david-weiss-discussed-former-doj-official-with-hunter-biden-ties-new-emails-show\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T09:03:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T13:03:10","slug":"david-weiss-discussed-former-doj-official-with-hunter-biden-ties-new-emails-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/david-weiss-discussed-former-doj-official-with-hunter-biden-ties-new-emails-show\/","title":{"rendered":"New emails reveal David Weiss&#8217;s discussion on ex-DOJ official linked to Hunter Biden."},"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\">26<\/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%2Fdavid-weiss-discussed-former-doj-official-with-hunter-biden-ties-new-emails-show%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=2017755&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>Newly Released Emails Reveal Concerns\u2062 About Potential\u200d Conflict of \u200cInterest in\u2063 Hunter Biden Case<\/h2>\n<p>Recently disclosed emails have shed\u2062 light on discussions\u200d held by Delaware U.S. Attorney \u2062David\u2063 Weiss and his\u2062 team regarding a congressional request for information about a Justice Department official with\u200b a potential conflict\u200c of interest in the Hunter Biden \u2063case. The emails, although heavily redacted, \u2064indicate that the Justice Department, rather than Weiss&#8217;s\u2063 office,\u2064 took\u200d the lead in responding to Congress, despite assurances from Attorney General Merrick Garland that Weiss was operating independently in the investigation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[T]he Acting\u200b Assistant Attorney General is screened and\u2062 recused from matters in which he has\u200b a financial \u2063interest or a <a title=\"New emails reveal David Weiss's discussion on ex-DOJ official linked to Hunter Biden.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/david-weiss-discussed-former-doj-official-with-hunter-biden-ties-new-emails-show\/\">personal\u2062 business relationship<\/a>, <a title=\"Cyber Expert and Former Secret Service Agent: Hunter Biden Laptop 100% Authentic\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cyber-expert-and-former-secret-service-agent-hunter-biden-laptop-100-authentic\/\">including matters involving<\/a> his former\u2063 <a title=\"Merrick Garland and DOJ face lawsuit over Hunter Biden's unregistered foreign agent status.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/merrick-garland-and-doj-sued-for-not-requiring-hunter-biden-to-register-as-a-foreign-agent\/\">law \u2063firm<\/a>,&#8221; the DOJ \u200chad\u200d written in its\u200c letter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The emails, obtained by the Heritage\u200c Foundation through a Freedom\u2063 of Information Act lawsuit, primarily focus on the congressional requests concerning then-Assistant Attorney General Nicholas McQuaid, who\u200b had a potential \u200dconflict of interest. The Justice \u2062Department&#8217;s \u200bOffice of Legislative\u2063 Affairs worked on a response to Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron\u2062 Johnson, with Weiss only given the opportunity to review the letter produced by the Justice \u2063Department, rather than\u200d drafting his own.<\/p>\n<h3>Questions\u2064 Surrounding McQuaid&#8217;s \u2064Involvement<\/h3>\n<p>Grassley and Johnson&#8217;s letter to\u200d Weiss, which was \u2063later \u200ctaken over by the Justice Department, raised \u200dconcerns about McQuaid&#8217;s potential involvement in \u200dthe Hunter Biden case. Prior to joining the Justice \u200bDepartment, McQuaid \u200chad been a partner\u2064 at the law\u200c firm representing\u2063 Hunter\u200b Biden, and \u200bhe had worked closely with Christopher Clark, Hunter Biden&#8217;s former lead\u2064 defense attorney.\u2064 Grassley and Johnson questioned whether\u200b McQuaid had recused himself from\u200d overseeing the investigation due to \u200chis previous ties to Hunter Biden&#8217;s defense team.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department had previously hinted at McQuaid&#8217;s \u200dpossible recusal in a letter to Grassley \u200cand Johnson, but no definitive information or recusal memo was provided. McQuaid left the \u2064Justice Department shortly before \u2062Weiss&#8217;s meeting with \u2064investigators on \u200bthe Hunter Biden case,\u200b during which he revealed that \u2063his\u2064 request for <a title=\"Former AG Bill Barr To Merrick Garland: Appoint A Special Counsel Already\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-ag-bill-barr-to-merrick-garland-appoint-a-special-counsel-already\/\">special counsel status<\/a> had been\u2064 denied \u200cand that two other U.S. attorneys appointed by President Joe Biden\u2063 had hindered his ability to charge Hunter Biden outside\u2062 of Delaware.<\/p>\n<p>McQuaid has since returned to \u2062Latham &#038; Watkins, the law \u2064firm assisting\u2063 in Hunter Biden&#8217;s defense. While at \u200cLatham &#038; Watkins, McQuaid did not represent Hunter Biden\u200c or have any\u200c involvement in \u200cthe case. However, several of Hunter Biden&#8217;s defense attorneys,\u200b including Christopher\u200d Clark until April, \u200dcurrently work at the firm.<\/p>\n<h3>Implications for \u200bWeiss&#8217;s Independence<\/h3>\n<p>The emails\u200c obtained through the\u2062 FOIA lawsuit suggest that\u200b Weiss was not allowed by\u2062 the Justice Department to address \u200bquestions about his\u2062 work. This \u2062raises doubts about the\u200b independence of Weiss&#8217;s investigation, contradicting statements made by Attorney General Garland. \u2064The Heritage Foundation&#8217;s \u200bOversight\u2064 Project, which \u2064filed the lawsuit, \u200bseeks documents related to Weiss&#8217;s potential request for special counsel status and his\u2064 attempts to bring\u2063 charges against Hunter\u200d Biden outside of Delaware.<\/p>\n<p>Despite \u200bthe heavily redacted\u2064 nature\u2063 of\u200c the emails, they are significant as they reveal discussions about the limitations imposed on Weiss&#8217;s \u2062office \u2062by the Justice\u200d Department. The multiple congressional \u2062inquiries regarding McQuaid and other aspects of \u2062the Hunter Biden \u200dinvestigation appear to have sparked these discussions.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden appointed McQuaid to his \u200dposition at the \u200bDOJ Criminal Division on his\u200b first day in office, prompting scrutiny due to his previous connection to Hunter Biden&#8217;s defense team. The Justice \u200cDepartment&#8217;s response to concerns\u200c about McQuaid&#8217;s\u2063 involvement has been limited, with a letter in February 2021\u2062 confirming that he had received ethics training and would hypothetically recuse himself\u200d from matters involving his former <a title=\"FLASHBACK: Former AG Barr Initiated Spying Program on Americans Back in 1992\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-former-ag-barr-initiated-spying-program-on-americans-back-in-1992\/\">law firm<\/a>, Latham &#038; Watkins.<\/p>\n<p>During\u2063 his time at the\u200d Justice \u200bDepartment, McQuaid visited the \u200dWhite House on multiple occasions,\u200d as indicated by White House visitor logs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New emails reveal Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss and his team addressing a congressional inquiry regarding a Justice Department official&#8217;s potential conflict of interest in the Hunter Biden case. The redacted emails indicate that the Justice Department, rather than Weiss&#8217;s office, spearheaded the response to Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2017756,"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":"New emails reveal David Weiss&#8217;s discussion on ex-DOJ official linked to Hunter Biden.","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2017755","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","fifu_image_alt":"New emails reveal David Weiss&#8217;s discussion on ex-DOJ official linked to Hunter Biden.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017755","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=2017755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2017756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2017755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2017755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2017755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}