House panel subpoenas senior IRS officials over Hunter Biden tax case
CBSN
Two senior IRS officials have been subpoenaed by the GOP-led House Ways and Means Committee, according to documents obtained by CBS News, for testimony about an October 2022 meeting in which an IRS whistleblower alleged that David Weiss, who was then the U.S. attorney investigating President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, said he did not have the ultimate authority to bring charges against the president's son.
Earlier this month, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Weiss as special counsel in the case, two weeks after a plea agreement between Hunter Biden and the government collapsed.
The GOP chairman of the committee, Rep. Jason Smith, sent letters to Michael Batdorf, identified as an IRS director of field operations and Darrell Waldon, an IRS Special Agent in Charge, for transcribed interviews in early September.
