美国司法部将驳回乔·拜登总统的儿子提起的民事诉讼，亨特·拜登美国国税局被指控未能保护他的税务信息不被两名举报者披露。
亨特·拜登9月起诉美国国税局两位资深税务调查人员加里·沙普利(Gary Shapley)和约瑟夫·齐格勒(Joseph Ziegler)提出了指控，拜登指责他们在媒体采访中不当分享他的私人纳税人信息，以此发起一场运动来“羞辱和伤害”他。
美国司法部周二在一份长达22页的文件中辩称，亨特·拜登描述的所谓不当行为与举报者的私人律师披露的信息有关——他们都不是政府雇员——因此应该被解雇。
政府律师援引提起诉讼的标准称，亨特·拜登也未能证明国税局在据称未能保护其纳税人信息方面表现出任何“故意或任性”。
2024年1月10日，亨特·拜登出席众议院监督和问责委员会题为“建议众议院认定罗伯特·亨特·拜登藐视国会”的决议。
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“即使接受原告的事实指控是真实的，他们也不能支持一个似乎合理的推断，即该机构有意或故意未能建立足够的技术或程序保障措施来防止披露发生，”DOJ律师写道。
两名举报者指控政府检察官对他们的调查处理不当司法部否认了这一指控。
DOJ moves to dismiss lawsuit filed by Hunter Biden against IRS over release of his tax info
The Justice Department is moving to dismiss a civil lawsuit filed by President Joe Biden's son,Hunter Biden, against the Internal Revenue Service over its alleged failure to protect his tax information from disclosure by two whistleblowers.
Hunter Bidensued the IRS in Septemberover claims made by a pair of veteran tax investigators, Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, whom the younger Biden accused of waging a campaign to "to embarrass and inflict harm" on him by improperly sharing his private taxpayer information in media interviews.
Justice Department argued in a 22-page filing on Tuesday that the alleged wrongdoing described by Hunter Biden pertains to disclosures made by the whistleblowers' personal attorneys -- neither of whom are government employees -- and should therefore be dismissed.
Hunter Biden also failed to show that the IRS demonstrated any "intentionality or willfulness" in its alleged failure to protect his taxpayer information, government lawyers argued, quoting the standard for bringing this cause of action.
"Even accepting Plaintiff's factual allegations as true, they do not support a plausible inference that the agency intentionally or willfully failed to establish adequate technical or procedural safeguards to prevent disclosures from taking place," DOJ attorneys wrote.
The two whistleblowers accused government prosecutors ofmishandling their investigationinto the president's son -- a claim that the Justice Department has denied.
