An FBI lawyer sent a letter to one of their agents, who House Republicans want to interview, and told this agent not to answer questions from Congress about Hunter Biden.
Instead, this lawyer told the agent to dodge any questions that seek non public information and reminded him that the FBI expects him to protect their investigations.
Here’s more via Daily Mail:
A lawyer for the FBI told an agent who investigated Hunter Biden to avoid answering questions from the House Oversight Committee, as news continues to leak out about the criminal investigations into the First Son.
The committee is probing whether the officers looking into Biden’s tax affairs and drug use on a gun permit gave the 53-year-old preferential treatment.
FBI Counsel Jason Jones sent a letter Sunday to the agent – who’s name has been redacted – just hours before they were set to testify before the committee, telling them to dodge questions about ‘ongoing investigative activity’.
‘The Department expects that you will decline to respond to questions seeking non-public information likely covered by one or more components of executive privilege or other significant confidentiality interests, in particular information about deliberations or ongoing investigative activity in law enforcement matters,’ he wrote.
Here’s the BS portion of the letter:
He told the agent to ‘instead refer such questions to the FBI’s Office of Congressional Affairs.’
Jones said deferring answers would ‘afford the Department the full opportunity to consider particular questions and possible accommodations that may fulfill the Committee’s legitimate need for information while protecting Executive Branch confidentiality interests.’
And this is the part that looks like the beginning of a threat:
‘Department officials, including those who have left the Department, are obligated to protect non-public information they learned in the course of their work,’ Jones continued. ‘Such information could be subject to various privileges, including law enforcement, deliberative process, attorney work product, and attorney-client privileges, and privacy interests.’
In other words, if you disregard this obligation we’re coming after you.
FBI whistleblowers are speaking before the House Oversight Committee today at 1PM ET and we’ll have that for you live.