华盛顿-众议院共和党人星期二向一名参与亨特·拜登刑事调查的联邦检察官发出传票，要求他回答他们所称的司法部干预总统儿子长达数年的案件。
根据美联社获得的一份国会传票，众议院司法委员会主席吉姆·乔丹(Jim Jordan)呼吁美国特拉华州助理检察官莱斯利·沃尔夫(Lesley Wolf)在12月7日之前出席该委员会。
“根据委员会迄今为止的调查，很明显，你拥有委员会通过其他来源无法获得的专门和独特的信息，没有这些信息，委员会的调查将是不完整的，”乔丹在给沃尔夫的附信中写道。
司法部没有立即回应置评请求。
对沃尔夫的传票是乔丹和其他共和党主席提出的一系列要求中的最新一项，作为他们对总统的弹劾调查的一部分乔·拜登。他的小儿子亨特和哥哥詹姆斯上周收到传票，因为共和党人希望在他们近一年的调查中取得进展，因此未能发现直接暗示总统有任何不当行为的证据。
调查的重点是拜登家族的国际商业事务和司法部对亨特·拜登的调查，共和党人声称，自2018年案件开始以来，这一调查进展缓慢，受到阻碍。
沃尔夫与负责此案的美国特拉华州检察官魏红星一起工作，他被美国国税局的举报者指控“偏离标准调查协议”，并因为亨特·拜登是总统的儿子而受到优待。
共和党人声称，很明显，检察官不想碰任何包括亨特·拜登父亲在内的东西。在一个例子中，被分配到该案件的国税局员工加里·沙普利在2020年后与韦斯和沃尔夫的一次会议上作证说选举，他和其他代理人想讨论亨特·拜登同事之间的一封电子邮件，其中一个人提到了“大家伙”沙普利说，沃尔夫拒绝这样做，说她不想问关于“爸爸”的问题
其他指控涉及2020年8月的一封电子邮件，沃尔夫在邮件中命令调查人员从搜查令中删除对“政治人物1”的任何提及，众所周知，他是拜登。在另一起事件中，美国联邦调查局官员事先通知了亨特·拜登的特勤局，试图采访他和他的几个商业伙伴，以避免两个执法机构之间可能发生的枪战。
司法部官员反驳了这些说法，指出围绕一桩刑事案件的一系列特殊情况涉及一个当时是一位领先总统候选人的儿子的主体。该部门的政策长期以来一直警告检察官在选举期间起诉具有潜在政治含义的案件时要小心，以避免对结果产生任何可能的影响。
韦斯本人本月接受了一次闭门采访，否认了政治干预的指控。
“政治考量在我们的决策中没有任何作用，”他告诉委员会。
尽管如此，共和党人要求沃尔夫出现在立法者面前，因为她“对该部对亨特·拜登的刑事调查有第一手知识”，并拒绝了夏天自愿加入的请求。
乔丹在给沃尔夫的信中写道。“鉴于你在亨特·拜登的调查中发挥的关键作用，你处于独一无二的位置，可以让我们了解拜登总统在国务院的调查中是否发挥了任何作用，以及他是否试图以任何方式直接或间接阻碍该调查或我们的调查。”
House Republicans subpoena prosecutor in Hunter Biden case
WASHINGTON --House Republicans issued a subpoena Tuesday to a federal prosecutor involved in the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden, demanding answers for what they allege is Justice Department interference in the yearslong case into the president's son.
Rep. Jim Jordan, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, called on Lesley Wolf, the assistant U.S. attorney for Delaware, to appear before the committee by Dec. 7, according to a copy of the congressional subpoena obtained by The Associated Press.
“Based on the Committee’s investigation to date, it is clear that you possess specialized and unique information that is unavailable to the Committee through other sources and without which the Committee’s inquiry would be incomplete,” Jordan wrote in an accompanying letter to Wolf.
The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The subpoena to Wolf is the latest in a series of demands Jordan and fellow Republican chairmen have made as part of their sprawling impeachment inquiry into PresidentJoe Biden. His youngest son Hunter and brother James received subpoenas last week as Republicans look to gain ground in their nearly yearlong investigation, which has so failed to uncover evidence directly implicating the president in any wrongdoing.
The inquiry is focused both on the Biden family's international business affairs and the Justice Department's investigation into Hunter Biden, which Republicans claim has been slow-walked and stonewalled since the case was opened in 2018.
Wolf, who serves with David Weiss, the U.S. attorney for Delaware in charge of the case, has been accused by whistleblowers from the Internal Revenue Service of “deviating from standard investigative protocol” and showing preferential treatment because Hunter Biden is the president's son.
Republicans have claimed that it was clear that the prosecutors didn’t want to touch anything that would include Hunter Biden’s father. In one instance, Gary Shapley, an IRS employee assigned to the case, testified that in a meeting with Weiss and Wolf after the 2020election, he and other agents wanted to discuss an email between Hunter Biden associates where one person made reference to the “big guy.” Shapley said Wolf refused to do so, saying she did not want to ask questions about “dad.”
Other claims relate to an August 2020 email in which Wolf ordered investigators to remove any mention of “Political Figure 1," who was known to be Biden, from a search warrant. In another incident, FBI officials notified Hunter Biden’s Secret Service detail in advance of an effort to interview him and several of his business associates in order to avoid a potential shoot-out between two law enforcement bodies.
Justice Department officials have countered these claims by pointing to the extraordinary set of circumstances surrounding a criminal case into a subject who at the time was the son of a leading presidential candidate. Department policy has long warned prosecutors to take care in charging cases with potential political overtones around the time of an election, to avoid any possible influence on the outcome.
Weiss himself appeared for a closed-door interview this month and denied accusations of political interference.
“Political considerations played no part in our decision-making,” he told the committee.
Nonetheless, Republicans are demanding Wolf appear before lawmakers as she has “first-hand knowledge of the Department’s criminal inquiry of Hunter Biden,” and refused a voluntary request to come in over the summer.
Jordan wrote in the letter to Wolf.: “Given your critical role you played in the investigation of Hunter Biden, you are uniquely situated to shed light on whether President Biden played any role in the Department’s investigation and whether he attempted, in any way, to directly or indirectly obstruct either that investigation or our investigation.”
