House Republicans ramped up pressure on the Department of Justice on Thursday to allow four witnesses to testify about the DOJ’s yearslong investigation into Hunter Biden, arguing that the department is prohibiting employees involved in the case from complying with congressional subpoenas.
The House Judiciary Committee indicated in a letter obtained by the Washington Examiner to Attorney General Merrick Garland that the DOJ had already instructed two Tax Division officials to defy their subpoenas.
The officials, senior litigation counsel Mark Daly and trial attorney Jack Morgan, worked on the Hunter Biden case and represented the Tax Division during a meeting at DOJ headquarters in June 2022 about prosecution decisions related to the first son. Gary Shapley, an IRS criminal investigator-turned-whistleblower who was present at the meeting, alleged to Congress that the Tax Division opposed bringing charges against Biden
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