DOJ Shielding Records on Hunter Biden, Durham Probes: Lawsuit

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is withholding records related to high-profile investigations, including the probe into President Joe Bidenโ€™s son, according to a new lawsuit.

Protect the Publicโ€™s Trust, a watchdog group, is seeking records seeking ethics waivers and determinations on allowing potentially conflicted employees to work on cases, but has been stymied.

The group submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) records request on June 1, 2021, but didnโ€™t receive a response for more than a year, according to the suit.

After inquiring about the status of the request on June 10, the watchdog received an acknowledgment that had been sent to the wrong email address. But the records still havenโ€™t been sent, nor have key determinations about which records will be provided, which violates federal law.

Based on the DOJโ€™s recent email, โ€œit appears that the Department has no intention of responding to Plaintiffโ€™s request anytime soon,โ€ Protect the Publicโ€™s Trust said in the filing in federal court in Washington. โ€œGiven these facts, it appears that absent litigation the Department has not and does not intend to meet its statutory obligations to provide the requested records.โ€

The documents would help shed light on potential conflicts of interest, including whether Joe Biden-appointee Nicholas McQuaid, a top DOJ official, is at all involved with the investigation into Bidenโ€™s son, Hunter Biden, according to the watchdog.

McQuaidโ€™s former colleague is representing Hunter Biden, who has said that heโ€™s under investigation for tax-related issues. Documents obtained by The Epoch Times indicate that the probe touches on Hunter Bidenโ€™s business dealings with China.

Susan Hennessey was hired in 2021 from CNN to be a lawyer at the DOJ. Before she was hired, she described the investigation from special counsel John Durham, which has uncovered more details about the effort to spy on then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and his associates in 2016, as โ€œpartisan silliness.โ€

Byย Zachary Stieber

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