An unnamed IRS watchdog agent claims he has details to share with Congress about the investigation into President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden and calls for whistleblower protection, according to The Wall Street Journalthe first to report on a letter from an IRS agent’s attorney to a member of Congress.
CNN, CBS News and ABC News also got a letter.
The agent’s attorney, Mark Lytle, told CBS News that his client “wants to go to Congress.”
“They’re ready to be questioned about what they know and what they’ve experienced under the proper protections of the law,” Lytle said.
Federal investigators have been looking into Hunter Biden’s finances since at least 2018, looking for information on whether he committed tax crimes and made false statements about gun purchases. The president’s son has not been prosecuted, although some have Investigators say they have enough information to do so.
In a letter to a select group of members of Congress on Wednesday, Lytle wrote: “Despite the risk of serious reprisals, my client offers to provide you with the information necessary to carry out his constitutional oversight function and wishes to make disclosures in a non-partisan manner to the relevant committee leaders in both sides of the political aisle.
Lytle said his client’s testimony would “(1) contradict sworn testimony to Congress by senior political officials, (2) result in a failure to mitigate the obvious conflict of interest in the case” and “(3) detailed examples of preferential treatment and politics without actually infects the decisions and protocols that career law enforcement professionals would normally make in similar situations if the subject matter were not politically motivated.
Lytle then sought special protection for his client.
He sent a letter to Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), Lindsey Graham (RS.C.) and Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), as well as Reps. Jason Smith (R-Mo.), Richard Neal (D-Mass.), Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Jerrold Nadler (DN.Y.). Every member, ranking member, chairman or chairman of a congressional committee.
Lytle said CBS News whose clients have been part of the IRS for more than a decade. They Neither the IRS nor an attorney for Hunter Biden responded to HuffPost’s request for comment.