A Gonzo Book Review - The Whistleblowers: Inside the Hunter Biden IRS Case and the Quiet Wars of the Federal Government.By Luis Gonzalez for
The Last WireIt begins, as most nightmares in Washington do, in a fluorescent-lit government office where two IRS agents, Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, stumbled into a case that would shake their careers and, if you believe them, expose the inner machinery of political power. Their book,
The Whistleblowers: Inside the IRS Case Against the Big Guy, reads like a war journal: legal briefs and spreadsheets mixed with the raw adrenaline of agents who thought the law was above politics — and discovered it is sometimes only beside it.
Shapley and Ziegler were investigating Hunter Biden’s taxes when the first walls went up. According to their narrative, DOJ leadership, some allegedly influenced by the White House, intervened at nearly every turn: slowing subpoenas, denying requests to interview key witnesses, and blocking expansion of the case to other jurisdictions. This is the “Delay, Divulge, Deny” pattern that forms the spine of their story: Delay investigative steps, divulge selective information to counsel or associates, deny investigators the ability to follow leads. The result, in their telling, is a professional cage — handcuffs made of bureaucracy, leaving honest agents sidelined and professionally endangered.
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