Politico was not happy to report what they learned when they read the notes that IRS Supervisory Agent Gary Shapley testified to, as a witness in front of Congress. They back up his side of the story. Politico was hoping that the notes would back up what an FBI agent says. Instead, it’s a clear contradiction. Agent Thomas Sobocinski “doesn’t remember” what David Weiss said but claims it wasn’t what Shapely has in his notes. The FBI agent managing the team of bureau investigators doesn’t have any notes of his own, only his highly unbiased recollection. He’s considered one of the DOJ rats guarding the Deep State government cheese. We’ll see which one the Senate believes when they vote on Joe Biden’s impeachment conviction.
One witness has notes
Handwritten notes, which whistleblowing witness Gary Shapley’s lawyers insist he wrote during the meeting in question, indicate that U.S. Attorney David Weiss said he “was constrained” regarding charging Hunter Biden with many of the crimes being investigated.
Politico was unhappy to report that the notes which they have seen for themselves “appear to bolster his prior claims that the U.S. Attorney handling the case felt politically hamstrung.”
The meeting happened on October 7, 2022 “with participants from the FBI and the IRS,” as related by Shapley’s lawyers. The notes state that Weiss “told law enforcement officials he was ‘not the deciding person‘ regarding the investigation.” Weiss can claim that he had all the authority to do what he wanted and not be lying to congress. Telling the truth also matches up with what he told the investigators. He wasn’t the deciding person to file charges but he had no intention of finding any charges to file.
NEW: IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley’s contemporaneous notes October 2022 meeting where he alleged US attorney Weiss said he was not the decision maker on Hunter Biden charges. Weiss/DOJ dispute. READ: “Weiss stated – He is not deciding person,” “Weiss requested Special Counsel… pic.twitter.com/GscAcvbcQD
— Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) September 13, 2023
He told the truth but not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. He had all the authority he needed to do nothing, which he tried to do until Shapley and a colleague came forward to the House Ways and Means Committee. Once Weiss knew there was at least one witness to his crime, he tried to cover it up by filing a couple quick misdemeanor charges on Hunter locally, in his jurisdiction. The judge didn’t do her part by rubber stamping the deal. Instead, she asked all the right questions and the wheels fell off in court.
Because their readers are 90 percent progressives, Politico was careful to document that “Empower Oversight, a non-profit group led by former staffers to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) that is helping Shapley, provided the notes” to them. Staffers also were nice enough to include “a letter they sent to the House Judiciary Committee, which is investigating the Biden family.”
The left-leaning outlet grudgingly admits that “Shapley’s notes are the first written materials from a participant of the Oct. 7 meeting to be made public.” They’re also “the only contemporaneous documentation of the meeting available thus far.” That’s why they’re so ticked off that the notes back up the witness claims over the FBI denials.
The FBI remembers it different
Two more “law enforcement officials who attended the meeting have told lawmakers that they do not remember it the same way Shapley does.” They don’t “remember” anything to contradict his notes either. Some sensitive parts remain redacted. “Portions of the handwritten notes are redacted and contain ‘information not previously released by the House Ways and Means Committee.‘”
Shapley was an IRS supervisory special agent who has worked for the agency for 14 years before he blew the whistle and became a witness against government corruption. He learned real fast that the swamp fights back hard. Especially when you make “a dramatic allegation, contradicting Attorney General Merrick Garland, who testified to Congress that Weiss could handle the case however he saw fit.” There again, Garland wasn’t really lying because he knew the fix was in. Weiss saw fit to let Hunter go on everything because Weiss was also a close friend of Hunter’s late brother Beau.
After the whistleblowers came out to give sworn witness testimony, Weiss scrambled to craft a diabolical plea deal with Hunter Biden’s expensive lawyers. While the part with the tax charges was tossed out by the judge, the second part, involving a federal gun charge and a “deferred” prosecution agreement might still stand.
IRS Whistleblower Gives Congress More Documents, Boosting His Credibility And Destroying The DOJ’s
On Monday, IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley provided congressional oversight committees nine new documents related to the botched Hunter Biden investigation, according to a letter… pic.twitter.com/VvJek6UgCd
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It’s in limbo for now but Hunter’s lawyers claim it still stands. More than that, they think it precludes Hunter from being charged with anything else at all, ever. Weiss claims he’s going to be filing another gun charge by the end of the month. Congress is already smelling a rat.
Now that David Weiss suddenly has “Special Counsel” authority he claims that “they intend to charge Biden with tax crimes in California or D.C.” Not so fast, Abbe Lowell argues. We’ll see about that next time we tangle in court, he grins. Another one of the notes that Shapley took and testified to as a witness makes Politico so uncomfortable they buried it at the bottom of their story.
Not many Democrats know how to read so few make it down that far. “USA CA [U.S. Attorney, California Martin] Estrada in charge of authorizing those charges in that jurisdiction,” the notes say. “Weiss requested Special Counsel status in D.C. Main DOJ said ‘NO‘ – follow the process.” In other words, Merrick Garland was really in charge. That makes sense because Garland thinks he really runs the country.
