The Biden administration's Department of Justice on Tuesday night said it will not cooperate with a House committee's subpoenas for two FBI agents involved in the department's investigation of Hunter Biden, the Washington Examiner reported.
The DOJ says it will not cooperate because the House Judiciary Committee had prohibited department lawyers at the agents' depositions, DOJ Assistant Attorney General Carlos Uriarte claimed in a letter to committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.
Uriarte told Jordan his subpoenas to the two agents, special agents Thomas Sobocinski and Ryeshia Holley of the FBI's Baltimore Field Office, "lack legal effect and cannot constitutionally be enforced."
"The subpoenas issued by the Committee prohibit the attendance of agency counsel at appearances by two FBI employees where the Committee has indicated it will ask questions regarding information they learned within the scope of their official duties, including regarding the ongoing criminal investigation," Uriarte wrote, the Examiner reported.
The Judiciary Committee's deposition rule aligns with House rules, which do not permit department counsel at depositions.
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