The White House is adamant the Justice Department remains independent, despite an IRS official seeking whistleblower status who is alleging the administration is mishandling a federal investigation into Hunter Biden.

Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre also repeated that President Joe Biden believes in the rule of law.

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"I'm not going to go beyond that — the Department of Justice will certainly deal with this issue," she told reporters Thursday.

The whistleblower is a career IRS criminal supervisory special agent who claims he has been managing “the ongoing and sensitive investigation” of a “high-profile” and “controversial subject” since early 2020.

The whistleblower’s lawyer, Mark Lytle, has written to congressional leaders, advising them his client’s “protected disclosures” detail “examples of preferential treatment and politics improperly infecting decisions and protocols that would normally be followed by career law enforcement professionals in similar circumstances if the subject were not politically connected.”

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Hunter Biden is under investigation, though Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss is understood to have narrowed the scope of his inquiry from the younger Biden's foreign dealings in China and Ukraine to an alleged illegal tax deduction of $30,000 in business expenses and for lying about his substance abuse problems when he bought a gun.