House Republicans seek records outlining the “scope” of Delaware’s U.S. Attorney David Weiss‘s special counsel investigation into Hunter Biden.
A trio of GOP chairmen sent a letter on Monday to Attorney General Merrick Garland requesting documents by next month while raising concerns about the years-long inquiry into the president’s adult son.
The lawmakers mentioned a number of issues stemming from whistleblower allegations, public statements about charging authority, the revelation of internal communications from Biden’s lawyers, and the collapse of a plea deal that led to the special counsel appointment after a judge took issue with the contours of an immunity provision.
“The Department pulled punches in this investigation, handicapping veteran investigators and preventing them from freely pursuing the facts,” the letter said. “The Department agreed to an apparently unprecedented plea deal with Hunter Biden after his attorneys threatened to call his father, President Biden, as a witness in the case.”
“Now you have appointed as special counsel an individual who oversaw all the investigation’s irregularities, who spent the past two months claiming that he did not need special counsel status, and who was responsible for the plea agreement that collapsed in court and is widely viewed as an embarrassment for the Department,” the letter added. “In light of Mr. Weiss’s record leading this investigation, we have concerns with his appointment as special counsel.”