The Department of Justice informed the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday night that it would not cooperate with subpoenas for two FBI agents involved in the department's investigation of Hunter Biden because of the committee's stipulations for their depositions.
Carlos Uriarte, DOJ assistant attorney general, claimed in a letter obtained by the Washington Examiner to committee Chairman Jim Jordan that his subpoenas to the two agents "Lack legal effect and cannot constitutionally be enforced" because Jordan had prohibited DOJ lawyers at their depositions.
"The subpoenas issued by the Committee prohibit the attendance of agency counsel at appearances by two FBI employees where the Committee has indicated it will ask questions regarding information they learned within the scope of their official duties, including regarding the ongoing criminal investigation," Uriarte wrote.
Concerns about sharing non-public details about a current investigation "Are heightened while a matter is open and investigative steps, prosecutorial decisions, or judicial proceedings are ongoing. As Mr. Weiss and his office have repeatedly stated, his investigation remains ongoing," Uriarte wrote.
The letter comes in response to Jordan and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith issuing four subpoenas this month, two to the FBI and two to the IRS, in regard to the yearslong investigation into Biden.
The chairmen alleged that the investigation had been "Purposely slow-walked," basing the allegations in part on whistleblower testimony from two veteran IRS agents involved in the investigation.
Jordan said the two FBI officials, Sobocinski and Holley, had jurisdiction over the FBI's Wilmington office, where the Biden investigation was based.
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