{"id":2026421,"date":"2023-09-08T21:48:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T01:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-fbi-witness-testifies-before-congress-after-jim-jordan-subpoenas\/"},"modified":"2023-09-08T21:50:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T01:50:13","slug":"hunter-biden-fbi-witness-testifies-before-congress-after-jim-jordan-subpoenas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-fbi-witness-testifies-before-congress-after-jim-jordan-subpoenas\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Biden, an FBI witness, testifies in Congress following Jim Jordan&#8217;s subpoenas."},"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-fbi-witness-testifies-before-congress-after-jim-jordan-subpoenas%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=2026421&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>The Department of \u2064Justice Allows FBI Agents to Testify in Hunter Biden Investigation<\/h2>\n<p>The Department of Justice has agreed \u200dto allow \u2063two\u2064 FBI \u2063agents to appear before the House Judiciary Committee for behind-closed-doors transcribed interviews. This development comes after the committee subpoenaed the agents last week regarding the department&#8217;s investigation into \u2064Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n<p>FBI special agent Thomas Sobocinski recently\u2062 met with Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) \u200dand committee staff\u200d for an interview, accompanied\u200d by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-u-s-corporations-building-chinas-military-surveillance-state\/\" title=\"The U.S. Corporations Building China\u2019s Military-Surveillance State\">department counsel<\/a>. The interview with\u200b special agent Ryeshia Holley is scheduled for next week.<\/p>\n<h3>Voluntary \u200dInterviews Instead of Depositions<\/h3>\n<p>Initially, Jordan had\u2063 subpoenaed\u200c the agents for \u200cdepositions. However, the depositions would have prevented the FBI agents from appearing\u2063 alongside department counsel, as per\u200c U.S. House\u200c rules. In response, the DOJ claimed the \u2064subpoenas were \u2063unenforceable due to the ongoing nature of the Biden investigation\u200d and the inability of \u200cdepartment counsel to attend depositions. Nevertheless, the department offered\u2062 to negotiate with the committee for a productive\u2064 outcome. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sidney-powell-is-an-american-legal-giant\/\" title=\"Sidney Powell Is an American Legal Giant\">subsequent interviews<\/a> indicate that these negotiations were successful.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan explained\u200c his interest \u2064in the two agents in correspondence last \u200cmonth, highlighting their work at the \u2062FBI&#8217;s \u2063Baltimore Field Office, which has jurisdiction over the FBI&#8217;s Wilmington office where \u200cthe Biden investigation took place. He also noted their presence at an \u2064October 2022\u2063 meeting\u2064 where then-U.S. Attorney David Weiss allegedly expressed\u200b a lack of authority to prosecute\u2062 Biden.<\/p>\n<p>13 Officials Named in Investigation<\/p>\n<p>These \u2063two FBI agents were part of a broader list published by\u2062 Jordan and two other House chairmen, Reps. James Comer (R-KY) and Jason Smith\u200c (R-MO). The \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/10-house-democrats-call-for-gov-cuomo-to-resign\/\" title=\"10 House Democrats call for Gov. Cuomo to resign\">list included<\/a> a\u200b total of 13 officials from the DOJ, FBI, IRS, \u2063and \u2062an unspecified number of Secret \u2064Service agents. The chairmen claimed that these\u2063 officials possessed crucial\u200d information regarding allegations\u2063 that Biden received preferential\u200c treatment from the \u2063DOJ during the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Indictment Plans and Republican \u2064Concerns<\/p>\n<p>In\u2063 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/accused-university-of-idaho-killer-offers-alibi\/\" title=\"University of Idaho murder suspect presents alibi.\">recent court \u200dfiling<\/a>, Weiss \u200brevealed his intention to indict Hunter \u2063Biden by the \u2062end of September. The filing indicated\u200d that the indictment would include a felony charge for possession\u200c of a firearm while being addicted \u2064to drugs. However, Jordan\u2062 and House \u200bRepublicans investigating larger allegations against Biden expressed dissatisfaction with this \u2063charge, as they believe it does not adequately address the broader\u2064 accusations of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-fbi-witness-testifies-before-congress-after-jim-jordan-subpoenas\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden, an FBI witness, testifies in Congress following Jim Jordan's subpoenas.\">corrupt foreign business\u200c dealings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DOJ permitted two FBI agents to privately testify before the House Judiciary Committee. This decision came after the committee issued a subpoena to the agents regarding the Hunter Biden investigation. Special Agent Thomas Sobocinski met with Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and committee staff for an interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2026422,"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-2026421","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\/2026421","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=2026421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2026422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}