Calling Hunter Prosecutor David Weiss

House Republicans late last week asked Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss to answer questions about his Hunter Biden investigation, and the list of queries is growing. Such as: Did the prosecutor bother to go beyond Hunter’s tax issues to look into wider allegations of corruption?

The recent testimony from two IRS whistleblowers suggests the answer is no. We’ve told you about the whistleblower claims that prosecutors and FBI personnel blocked the IRS team from following up leads that might shine a light on President Biden’s involvement with his son’s business dealings. Whistleblower Gary Shapley is an IRS supervisory special agent who oversees a team that specializes in international tax fraud. Mr. Shapley says his team was denied access to potentially crucial evidence.

This includes access to a mooted FD-1023 document, which allegedly contains information from a confidential source who was interviewed by the FBI in June 2020. The source says that a Ukrainian oligarch claims to have made bribery payments to Hunter and Joe Biden, and to also possess audio recordings of conversations with the two men, according to Sen. Chuck Grassley.

These claims are hearsay, and the source hasn’t been identified. But former Attorney General Bill Barr says a team of Pittsburgh prosecutors determined there was no basis to believe the FD-1023 was “disinformation,” and he says it was sent to Mr. Weiss’s team to follow up.

Mr. Shapley sat for his whistleblower interview with the House prior to these Barr comments. But in a later affidavit he told Congress that neither he, nor his IRS team, nor FBI agents working with them were provided this document to investigate. If Mr. Shapley’s team didn’t receive the FD-1023, it means the allegations were either ignored or never properly investigated. Why?

Mr. Shapley adds that he also wasn’t allowed to take part in the briefings that Mr. Weiss’s Delaware team received from Pittsburgh prosecutors. Mr. Shapley said in his affidavit that all of this “appears to be another example of prosecutors obstructing the investigative process.”

It’s certainly in keeping with other examples Mr. Shapley has provided in testimony of prosecutors hiding evidence. The whistleblower says the FBI took possession of Hunter’s laptop in December 2019, and he says the bureau assigned an outside “filter” team to screen for attorney-client or other privileged documents—a routine step. Yet Mr. Shapley says that, even after the filter, his team wasn’t allowed to see the full laptop contents, which he says is “unprecedented in my experience.”

He says his team “only got piecemeal items,” and requests to see everything were refused by prosecutors. Mr. Shapley says this withholding of information “happened all the time” during his Hunter probe.

Meanwhile, CBS News reports that Tony Bobulinski,

Perhaps Mr. Weiss has an explanation for all of this, though in a Friday letter to House Republicans he said he couldn’t provide specific law-enforcement information about the Hunter Biden case. His refusal to contradict the whistleblowers enhances their credibility.