Who Is the Unnamed Former FBI Agent Testifying Before Congress?

My VIP for this week is the unnamed former FBI supervisory special agent who testified today behind closed doors on July 17 in an investigation of Hunter Biden. The 65-page transcript of his/her testimony was released today by the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.

Among other information, the former FBI agent gave details about what happened “when agents from both the FBI and the IRS planned to question President-elect Joe Biden’s son in Los Angeles” in December 2020. Besides supporting the previous testimony of IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley, the unnamed former FBI agent “said FBI headquarters’ tipoff to both Joe Biden’s presidential transition team and the Secret Service about a pending interview cost investigators the chance to question the younger Biden.” Fred Lucas shared four takeaways from the transcript in his article in The Daily Signal. 

1. Comparing Testimony of IRS, FBI Agents

Shapley, the IRS supervisory special agent who became a whistleblower on the five-year Hunter Biden probe, testified about the tipoff May 26 to another House committee.

“Hunter Biden was assigned Secret Service protection on or around our Dec. 3 meeting,” Shapley testified to the House Ways and Means Committee. “So we developed a plan for the FBI Los Angeles special agent in charge to reach out at 8 a.m. on Dec. 8 to the Secret Service Los Angeles special agent in charge and tell them that we would be coming to the residence to seek an interview with Hunter Biden and it was part of an official investigation.

The IRS whistleblower, however, explained that it didn’t work out that way. [He explained that FBI headquarters] “tipped off a group of people very close to President Biden and Hunter Biden and gave this group an opportunity to obstruct the approach of the witness.”

[When asked to describe the initial plan] the former FBI official answered: “So, the initial plan was to make approaches of multiple witnesses, to include subject Hunter Biden, on Dec. 8.”

Noting that the investigative team learned Dec. 3 that the younger Biden “had armed Secret Service protection,” he said:

We knew that we could not just, you know, go to the door, or I certainly believed that we just could not go to the door, so that there would be – have to be – some notification to [the] Secret Service so they would be aware that we were coming. The initial plan was to have the local field office of the Secret Service be notified the morning of [Dec. 8, 2020] to diminish opportunities for anybody else to be notified. I was working with my management on that, as well as … our FBI headquarters. …

He later added that the plan didn’t succeed….

2. No Interview of Hunter Biden

After the tipoff to the presidential transition team and Secret Service headquarters, federal agents didn’t get a chance to interview Hunter Biden, or even to visit his home….

The majority counsel asked: “And were you able to interview Hunter Biden?”

The former FBI agent replied, “I was not.”

3. ‘Team of Advisers or Appointees’

The former FBI agent also testified to House investigators that others were looped in on the Biden probe that he didn’t think should have been….

4. House Republicans Skeptical of Weiss

The contents of the transcript released Monday by the House Oversight and Accountability Committee compounds questionable investigative conduct in a probe that has been run for five years by the office of U.S. Attorney for Delaware David Weiss.

On Friday, Attorney General Merrick Garland named Weiss as special counsel in the case, officially giving Weiss more authority and powers to investigate the case in any jurisdiction. Previously, Weiss was confined to initiating legal action in Delaware, which Biden represented in the Senate for 36 years before becoming vice president in 2009….

Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., criticized the Weiss investigation of the president’s son.

“Weiss slow-walked the most serious charges against Hunter and offered him a sweetheart plea deal….” ….

Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., said Weiss’ appointment as special counsel was part of the coverup.

“David Weiss as special counsel is nothing more than an attempted DOJ cover-up,” McClain tweeted. “@GOPoversight will not stop investigating the Biden crime family no matter what the DOJ throws at us.”