(The Center Square) – Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., sent a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen this week alleging that the federal agency is withholding documents that detail the foreign transactions conducted by the president’s son, Hunter Biden.
Hunter has been the focus of controversy for his foreign business dealings, especially how his father may have been involved. He is currently under investigation by the Department of Justice.
Rep. Comer has called on the Treasury Department to provide suspicious activity reports and other documentation “regarding Hunter Biden and other Biden associates and family members’ suspicious foreign business transactions flagged by U.S. banks” but says he has not received them.
“The Biden Administration is restricting Congress’ access to SARs, and Committee Republicans are investigating whether this change in longstanding policy is motivated by efforts to shield Hunter Biden and potentially President Biden from scrutiny,” Rep. Comer wrote in his letter, not his first to the agency on this issue. “Though the Committee requested documents and information ‘no later than June 8, 2022,’ the Department of the Treasury has provided no documents or information.”
Hunter Biden attended a ceremony in the East Room of the White House for Medal of Freedom recipients Thursday.
Rep. Comer argued that the Treasury has publicly boasted of its transparency, making this refusal worse.
“According to the Wall Street Journal, the Biden Administration claimed, ‘Treasury has made SARs available for every request we’ve received, regardless of party, and will continue to do so,’” he wrote. “This is not true. During a phone call on June 13, 2022, Treasury officials informed Committee Republican staff that they will not provide SARs to Committee Republicans unless Democrats join the request. It is troubling that the Biden Administration is willing to provide a false story to the media to create the appearance of transparency while continuing to thwart congressional oversight.
“The American people deserve to know whether the President’s connections to his son’s business deals occurred at the expense of the United States’ interests and whether they represent a national security threat,” he added.
The Treasury Department and the White House did not respond to a request for comment in time for publication.
Treasury employees, whose salaries are paid for by THE PEOPLE are expected to be up and Comers, not Down and Dirtier’s. This bought and paid for administration is as Transparent and a blind man on a bluff. Time to call their bluff.
Thing is, they imo, are not bluffing..
It’s the Democrat way. If it is incriminating to them—you don’t see it.
The satan worshipping DEMONcrats hide everything they can but they demand just the oppfrom the Republicans.
Assuming they have not already destroyed it.
They will work on finding those documents and information and get them to you, but they seem to be miss placed. Laptop Computer, What Laptop computer?
If the GOP take the house, they damn well better deliver. Or forget ever being given this chance again.
Republicans better take a scorched Earth approach to the democraps lawlessness starting on January 6, 2023. We have had ENOUGH. Start impeachment preodeedings on the entire biden administration. EVERY ONE OF THEM.
Assuming we GET a majority…
So its ok for the satan worshipping DEMONcrats to hide documents but if any others do the same thing it is a CONSTITUTIONAL crisis, it is time to either punish that hunter biden or force him to give up those documents, either way the peop,e deserve to know about the things he has been doing.
The one company he has is the very same company that biden sold our oil to. How many other things do we not know about the biden crime family. How many other deals have they made to give away the nation to other countries.
The biden family needs to be dealt with as soon as possible.
I’ve seen plenty of videos on the web to incriminate sleazebag Hunter. You don’t have to be a gubment “worker” to know this. As for withholding documents – duh. You think? YYYYYEEEEESSSSSS. It’s what politicians – left and right – do. It’s a Deep State Toxic Septic Sewer System SWAMP SCUM thing.
Typical dictatorship. Let’s Go Brandon!