{"id":2022986,"date":"2023-09-06T03:04:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T07:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-investigation-weiss-may-still-testify-to-congress-despite-doj-roadblocks\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T03:05:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T07:05:25","slug":"hunter-biden-investigation-weiss-may-still-testify-to-congress-despite-doj-roadblocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-investigation-weiss-may-still-testify-to-congress-despite-doj-roadblocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Weiss could testify to Congress on Hunter Biden probe despite DOJ obstacles."},"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\">24<\/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%2Fhunter-biden-investigation-weiss-may-still-testify-to-congress-despite-doj-roadblocks%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=2022986&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>Will U.S. Attorney\u2063 David Weiss\u2063 Testify to Congress?<\/h2>\n<p>With\u200c just three weeks until the\u200c scheduled date for U.S. Attorney David Weiss, \u2063now\u200b a \u200cspecial counsel, to potentially testify before Congress, the question\u2063 of whether he will appear at all remains open. The Justice Department has already prevented other witnesses from complying with congressional \u200dsubpoenas in House Republican investigations into \u2064the Biden family&#8217;s business\u2063 dealings, indicating potential roadblocks for the House inquiry.<\/p>\n<h3>Negotiations\u2064 and Uncertainty<\/h3>\n<p>Negotiations between\u2062 the House \u200cJudiciary Committee and\u200b the Justice\u200c Department regarding Weiss&#8217;s appearance before Congress are ongoing, according to a\u200c person familiar\u2063 with the talks. The Justice \u2063Department has\u200d not yet \u2063canceled \u2062Weiss&#8217;s planned appearance this fall. However, it is unclear \u2063whether\u2062 Weiss would testify at a public\u200b hearing or participate in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-investigation-weiss-may-still-testify-to-congress-despite-doj-roadblocks\/\" title=\"Weiss could testify to Congress on Hunter Biden probe despite DOJ obstacles.\">closed-door transcribed \u2062interview<\/a>.\u200c Congressional investigators typically prefer closed-door settings, as they tend to yield \u2062more\u200d useful information.<\/p>\n<h3>Special Counsel \u2063Status and \u200dCongressional Oversight<\/h3>\n<p>Weiss&#8217;s status as \u200ba special \u200ccounsel \u200cmay provide the Justice Department with additional tools to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/grassley-grills-fbi-director-based-on-daily-wire-investigation-into-use-of-bureau-jet\/\" title=\"Grassley questions FBI Director over Daily Wire's probe of jet usage.\">resist congressional oversight<\/a>. The department has not \u200dcommented on whether Weiss still intends to testify.<\/p>\n<h3>The\u200d Justice Department&#8217;s \u2062Previous\u2063 Willingness<\/h3>\n<p>In July, the Justice Department appeared willing to allow\u200c Weiss, then\u200c the U.S.\u200c attorney in Delaware, to testify before Congress despite the ongoing criminal investigation \u2062into \u2063Hunter Biden. However, Hunter Biden&#8217;s court hearing \u2064and subsequent \u2063events led to Weiss&#8217;s appointment \u2064as special counsel and\u200c raised \u200ddoubts \u2064about further cooperation between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/glenn-greenwald-explains-how-multiple-media-outlets-can-independently-confirm-false-information\/\" title=\"Glenn Greenwald Explains How Multiple Media Outlets Can \u2018Independently Confirm\u2019 False Information\">congressional investigators<\/a> and the Justice Department.<\/p>\n<h3>Obstruction and Seeking Corroboration<\/h3>\n<p>The \u2062Justice\u2062 Department recently refused to allow two FBI agents involved\u200c in the\u200c Hunter Biden investigation to \u2064comply with subpoenas for their testimony. House Republicans are seeking corroboration of\u2063 a meeting in which Weiss allegedly admitted that the DOJ had \u200ddenied his request for\u2063 special counsel status and that \u2064two \u2062U.S. attorneys appointed \u200cby President Joe Biden had blocked his ability to\u200d charge Hunter Biden in the proper\u200c jurisdictions. Negotiations are ongoing, \u2063and the two FBI agents may eventually appear for transcribed interviews.<\/p>\n<h3>Challenging Obstruction and Frustration<\/h3>\n<p>While the Justice Department has refused to make\u200d more than 11 requested\u2063 witnesses available for interviews, lawmakers are considering their options \u2062for challenging this obstruction. House Republicans are frustrated\u2062 with the lack of answers and allegations of misconduct in Weiss&#8217;s office. The frustration \u200chas pushed them closer to considering an impeachment \u2064inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>Despite critics arguing that current evidence does not sufficiently\u2062 implicate\u200b Joe Biden, lawmakers believe\u200d an impeachment inquiry\u200b would\u2064 provide\u200b them with more \u2063tools to\u200b overcome the Biden administration&#8217;s stonewalling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three weeks before U.S. Attorney David Weiss, now a special counsel, could testify to Congress, it remains uncertain if he will appear. The Justice Department has obstructed other witnesses from adhering to congressional subpoenas in House Republican investigations into the Biden family&#8217;s business affairs, indicating potential obstacles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2022987,"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-2022986","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\/2022986","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=2022986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2022987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}