The House Judiciary Committee is ramping up its investigation into the Department of Justice under President Joe Biden: The committee is now requesting eight Biden DOJ employees, including former U.S. Attorney for Delaware David Weiss, sit for transcribed interviews.
Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan sent the letters — which NOTUS obtained — as he continues to probe the Biden-era DOJ, which he says was “used as a political tool to target perceived political adversaries.”
The first letter was sent to Weiss, who led the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden. Weiss has long been a favorite punching bag of conservatives, who balked at the plea deal he originally offered Biden’s son.
While the deal ultimately fell through and Hunter Biden was convicted on three felony charges — which would later be pardoned by his father — Republicans were still up in arms, claiming Weiss didn’t pursue any charges related to Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings.
The letter Jordan sent to Weiss asks that he sit for a transcribed interview because there are still unanswered questions from his final report on the Hunter Biden investigation.
“When you testified at a voluntary transcribed interview on November 7, 2023, you declined to answer multiple questions on the ground that the questions would be answered in your final report,” the letter reads. “On January 13, 2025, then-Attorney General Merrick Garland publicly released your final report. Contrary to your repeated representations to the Committee, your 27-page final report failed to address many of the topics you promised it would. Accordingly, we are forced to ask you to return for additional testimony in a transcribed interview about the topics you declined to address during your first appearance.”
Jordan asked that Weiss respond by April 1 to schedule the interview.
The Ohio Republican also sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi asking her to make available for transcribed interviews two former DOJ employees and five current officials.
Jordan wants Mack Jenkins, who formerly served as the Chief of the Criminal Division of the United States District Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, to sit for a transcribed interview over his handling of the prosecution of former GOP Rep. Jeff Fortenberry. The former congressman was charged in 2021 with one count of scheming to falsify and conceal material facts and two counts of making false statements to federal investigators.
Fortenberry was convicted in 2022, though the conviction was overturned by an appellate court in 2023.
“During the prosecution in California, Representative Fortenberry’s former attorney accused Jenkins of ‘misleading him about Representative Fortenberry’s status as a witness, subject, or target of the investigation and about the nature of the Department’s investigation,’” the letter reads.
Jordan also wants J.P. Cooney and Thomas Windom — who were part of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team investigating Trump — to sit for an interview.
“Specifically, former Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team, including Cooney and Windom, orchestrated a partisan and politically motivated prosecution of President Donald J. Trump and his co-defendants,” Jordan says in the letter.
Jordan is also requesting an interview with Assistant U.S. Attorney Negar Tekeei, who he says “appears to have retaliated against a federal inmate and witness who testified during the impeachment inquiry into former President Joe Biden.” The inmate in question is Jason Galanis, who testified before impeachment managers Jordan and Oversight Chair James Comer in March 2024
Additionally, Jordan is requesting interviews with three Assistant U.S. Attorneys who prosecuted a self-proclaimed hospital whistleblower and an anti-abortion advocate. The committee wants to hear from Houston Assistant U.S. Attorney Tina Ansari, “who was involved in the prosecution of a courageous whistleblower who exposed illegal activity at a Texas children’s hospital.”
Dr. Eithan Haim was charged in 2023 after he provided Christopher Rufo — a conservative activist — with hospital records of minors receiving gender transition-related care at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. The charges were dropped in January of this year.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Sanjay Patel and Anita Eve are also requested to sit for a transcribed interview before the committee for their role in prosecuting Mark Houck — an anti-abortion activist who was charged with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. He was acquitted of all charges in January 2023.
“Mr. Patel’s and Ms. Eve’s roles in this case are critical to understanding whether the Justice Department targeted Houck for his pro-life activism, reflecting a broader pattern of selective enforcement under the Biden-Harris Administration that demands legislative scrutiny,” the letter reads.
Jordan asked Bondi to have staff contact the committee by April 1 to set up the transcribed interviews.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, the committee’s top Democrat, lambasted Jordan’s requests.
“This pathetic time-machine investigation is legislative oversight malpractice of the first order, and the whole country will be rolling its eyes at this waste of time and resources on GOP summer re-runs,” he said in a statement.
A representative for Weiss and a spokesperson for the DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Reese Gorman is a reporter at NOTUS.