IRS special agent Joseph Ziegler, previously referred to as "Agent X," told CBS News reporter Catherine Herridge that he "felt handcuffed" during a five-year investigation into the president's son's international business deals, in an interview airing in full Wednesday night after his testimony this afternoon at the House Oversight Committee.



Herridge asked the key question: "Did you uncover evidence that President Biden financially benefited from his son's deals?"

Two whistleblowers who alleged the Justice Department politically interfered with an investigation into President Biden’s youngest son, Hunter, will testify before Congress at 1 p.m. Wednesday, including "Whistleblower X," a 13-year special agent of the IRS whose identity will be revealed for the first time during the hearing, and former investigation supervisor Greg Shapley.

A former FBI supervisory special agent confirmed key aspects of two IRS whistleblowers’ previous testimony about the DOJ, FBI and IRS’s alleged interference in the Hunter Biden tax probe, House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer said Monday night.

U.S. Attorney David Weiss claimed in a letter Monday that he never sought additional legal authority to charge Hunter Biden in Washington, D.C., and California, where Biden-appointed U.S. attorneys allegedly refused to charge the younger Biden.

Weiss sent the letter to Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who serves as ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, in response to Graham’s request for information related to allegations made by IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley about Weiss’ investigation into Hunter Biden.

US Attorney David Weiss, who is overseeing the Hunter Biden criminal probe, says in a letter obtained by CNN that he did not ask to be named as a special counsel and was never refused authority to bring charges anywhere in the country, refuting two key allegations from IRS whistleblowers.

Weiss’ comments, in a letter sent Monday to GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, go against claims from IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley and one of his deputies, who said they witnessed political interference in investigation of President Joe Biden’s son.

IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel told employees in a new memo about their constitutional and statutory right to make protected disclosures to Congress.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith on Saturday said that previous communications by the agency to employees may have had a “chilling effect” on whistleblowers, as they did not tell them that their rights included sharing concerns directly to Congress.

Hunter Biden’s attorneys are freaking out, which I don’t know is a sign that they’re working for every cent of their presumably outrageous hourly rate or know their client could be heading towards serious legal trouble. Maybe it’s a combination of the two. The media is gradually learning that something is amiss. The IRS whistleblower testimony has been deemed credible. What has been debunked is the series of attempts by the FBI and the Department of Justice to spin the origins of the investigations into the cracked-out son of the president.

Attorney General Merrick Garland waxed indignant on Friday as he defended the Justice Department against accusations of political favoritism. He’ll have to do better than that because his department is accused by credible whistleblowers of blocking investigators in the Hunter Biden probe from following leads that involved President Biden.

A majority of Americans say their opinion of President Biden has not changed as a result of the legal travails of his son, Hunter Biden, according to a new poll conducted exclusively for Newsweek.

Last week, Hunter's legal team struck a plea deal with the Department of Justice over income tax and weapon possession charges. Under the agreement, he is expected to avoid any prison time, by pleading guilty to misdemeanor tax offenses, whilst avoiding prosecution for illegally possessing a firearm as a drug user.

President Joe Biden denied taking part in his son’s alleged shakedown of a Chinese businessman recently revealed in a 2017 WhatsApp message.

Reporters questioned Biden over the WhatsApp message, revealed last week by IRS whistleblowers who investigated the president’s son’s tax affairs, at the White House on Wednesday. The president has so far refused to comment at length about the message that allegedly ties him with his son’s dealings with foreign agents.