Internal Revenue Service investigator-turned-whistleblower Gary Shapley reacted strongly to Attorney General Merrick Garland’s appointment of Delaware Attorney General David Weiss to become the investigation’s special counsel by Hunter Biden on Friday.
Shapley appeared on CNN with host Michael Smerconish, where he questioned the attorney general’s decision.
“So yesterday’s announcement was an admission by Attorney General Garland that they have not been honest, the Department of Justice has not been honest with the American people,” Shapley said.
“And it goes with what you just said, that he didn’t have the authority to make the decisions, as he said at the October 7, 2022 meeting,” he added.
The IRS whistleblower then exposed the many contradictions in the Justice Department’s appointment of Weiss as special counsel.
“I know that on October 7, 2022, he told that group in that room, as corroborated by another individual who was in that room, that he requested special counsel authority after he went in DC,” he said.
“And that he was denied that authority by the main DOJ, and told to follow the process,” he added. “Now discuss these letters on June 7 this year and June 30. The letter of June 7 says: I have full authority. This was before Special Agent Ziegler and I testified before the House Ways and Means Committee. And then the letter of the June 30th letter is published after our testimony was voted on by this committee and made public.
“And it was clear that US Attorney Weiss changed his story because he says, I have full authority to charge,” he continued. In the letter of June 30, this saying is echoed: “I have full authority to collect.” And it is a very important paragraph”.
“After that, he says, I have no authority to charge out of Delaware,” Shapley continued. “I should partner with a United States attorney where there’s a place. And this announcement yesterday is an absolute, unquestionable vindication of the filing of Special Agent Ziegler and I, because that’s the crux of the matter which we presented to the House Ways and Means Committee and the House Oversight Committee.”
The IRS whistleblower proceeded to destroy Garland’s ad on Friday.
“This announcement goes against everything the DOJ has told the American people about who has the authority,” he said. “It flies in the face of Attorney General Garland’s testimony before Congress on April 26 of last year and March 1 of this year. And those letters are simply not accurate based on the actions taken. If you remember , Attorney General Garland said … that David Weiss actually had more authority than a special counsel. So now, he’s appointing him as Special Counsel. Now he has less authority than before? It just doesn’t add up.”
Shapley has made a series of pointed claims against the Garland-led Justice Department, including the allegation that the DOJ allowed the president’s political appointees to interfere in the matter.
“The Justice Department allowed the president’s political appointees to weigh in on whether to indict the president’s son,” he said in congressional testimony.
FLASHBACK TO LAST MONTH:
IRS whistleblower GARY SHAPLEY: “The Justice Department allowed the president’s political appointees to have a say in whether to indict the president’s son”pic.twitter.com/0VHqlaquJk
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 11, 2023
The IRS whistleblowers also said in sworn testimony that they were not allowed to continue their investigation into matters involving President Joe Biden.
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