Judiciary Committee demands testimony from Special Counsel Weiss, DOJ officials on weaponization

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, sent letters on Tuesday demanding testimony from prosecutors that presided over allegedly politicized cases during the Biden administration, including to the special counsel who oversaw the Hunter Biden case. 

The letters, delivered to Special Counsel David Weiss and Attorney General Pam Bondi, request that Weiss and seven current and former Justice Department officials appear for transcribed interviews with the committee.

“During the 118th Congress, the Committee sought to work in good faith with the Biden-Harris Administration's DOJ to to conduct oversight in a constructive manner,” Jordan wrote in his letter to Weiss. “However, the Biden-Harris DOJ dictated unilateral and severe scope limitations on the Committee’s fact-finding and directed Department witnesses appearing before the Committee to not answer questions on the vast majority of topics.” 

You can read the letters below:

Special Counsel Weiss, who led the prosecutions against former first son Hunter Biden, released a final report on his findings but failed to answer key questions previously posed by the Judiciary Committee. During his November 2023 transcribed interview while the prosecutions were ongoing, Weiss promised that he would address questions about the investigation and various prosecutorial decisions in the report, including why the statute of limitations on Hunter Biden’s alleged 2014 and 2015 tax violations was allowed to expire and whether Weiss’ prosecutors were blocked from pursuing evidence related to Joe Biden, as IRS whistleblowers alleged. 

Jordan is also requesting testimony from seven other current and former DOJ officials at the head of cases criticized by Republicans in recent years, including two members of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team in the federal cases against Trump, the prosecutor who led a political corruption case against former GOP Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, an Assistant U.S. Attorney who allegedly retaliated against a Joe Biden impeachment witness, and the prosecutors who charged a pro-life activist with FACE act violations for an incident in front of an abortion clinic.