Newly released emails show Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss and his team discussed a congressional request last year for information about a Justice Department official with a possible conflict of interest in the Hunter Biden case.
The heavily redacted emails also show that the Justice Department, not Weiss’s office, took the lead on responding to Congress about questions meant for Weiss despite assurances from Attorney General Merrick Garland that Weiss was operating the Hunter Biden investigation with total independence.
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Virtually all but the subject of the emails discussing congressional requests about then-Assistant Attorney General Nicholas McQuaid, the Justice Department official with a potential conflict of interest, was redacted by the Justice Department before the agency provided the emails to the Heritage…