Timothy Thibault, a former FBI agent, has left the organization after accusations that he obstructed the investigation into Hunter Biden’s laptop.
It has been revealed today that a senior FBI agent who was suspected of prejudice in how he handled the investigation into Hunter Biden’s laptop has left the agency.
According to Fox News, Timothy Thibault, the FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the investigation, resigned from the agency at the end of last week and was led out of the building for the last time on Friday.
Thibault was one of 13 assistant special agents tasked with looking into the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. After agency whistleblowers revealed an alleged pattern of political bias from several high-ranking officials, FBI Director Christopher Wray removed Thibault from her supervisory position earlier this month.
Chuck Grassley, the leading member of the Senate Judiciary, also singled out the agent in a letter to Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland on July 18. In the letter, Grassley pleaded with the two to take action in response to claims that political prejudice affected agency operations.
Grassley wrote to Wray, stating that “the FBI answers to Congress and the American people,” and adding, “As you are aware, Assistant Special Agent in Charge Tim Thibault is not the only politically biased FBI agent in the Washington Field Office.”
Following a flurry of incriminating allegations regarding the FBI and how it handled the Hunter investigation, Thibault resigned.
Last Monday, Republican Senator Ron Johnson wrote to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz alleging that the agency had purposefully delayed the inquiry and instructed agents not to examine the laptop.
Johnson added, “Recently, my office heard from people with knowledge of the FBI’s potential wrongdoing.”
Thibault was one of 13 assistant special agents assigned to investigate the Hunter Biden laptop saga and was removed from the supervisory role by FBI Director Christopher Wray earlier this month after agency whistleblowers shed light on an alleged pattern of political bias from multiple high-ranking officials
Thibault was one of 13 assistant special agents assigned to investigate the Hunter Biden laptop saga and was removed from the supervisory role by FBI Director Christopher Wray earlier this month after agency whistleblowers shed light on an alleged pattern of political bias from multiple high-ranking officials
President Joe Biden (left) and Hunter Biden (right) leaving church in South Carolina earlier this month. The White House has generally avoided discussing the laptop story and investigation and has deferred to the Department of Justice when asked
In addition to asking for Mark Zuckerberg’s identity, the letter wants the identities of FBI and DOJ agents who allegedly informed the social media giant that a document dump before to the 2020 election was “Russian misinformation.”
According to sources, Facebook was compelled by that threat to filter and remove the New York Post’s stories on the laptop.
The American public want to know if the FBI utilized Facebook as part of their alleged scheme to undermine information concerning Hunter Biden, Johnson and Grassley wrote.
Grassley informed Iowa Republicans on Sunday that he would keep looking into Hunter Biden and that he intended to expose any “political prejudice” within the FBI.
If so, they said, “Congress and the American people demand clarification about the degree to which the FBI interacted with Facebook during the 2020 election with Hunter Biden-related material.”
Johnson wrote to Horowitz, “These whistleblowers claimed that after the FBI took the Hunter Biden laptop from the Wilmington, Delaware computer store, local FBI leadership told employees, “You will not look at that Hunter Biden laptop” and that the FBI is “not going to change the outcome of the election again.”
Johnson responded, saying, “While I appreciate your reluctance to look into an issue that could be connected to a current investigation, it is evident to me based on several credible whistleblower revelations that the FBI cannot be trusted with the management of Hunter Biden’s laptop.”
I hope you realize that it will be more difficult for you to find the truth and hold people responsible for wrongdoing the longer your office waits to look into the FBI’s conduct.
In order to avoid interfering with the Department of Justice’s investigation into Hunter’s tax troubles, Horowitz informed Johnson in February 2021 that the OIG would not look into how the FBI handled the laptop.
In a letter to Wray and Garland, Senator Grassley said that Thibault ordered the closure of “one avenue of disparaging Hunter Biden reporting” in October 2020, one month before the election.
According to the whistleblower, there was proof that some of the information were accurate when Thibault shut down the probe.
Allegations made to Grassley’s office “appears to imply that there was a plan among some FBI personnel to undercut negative material pertaining to Hunter Biden by falsely claiming it was misinformation,” the senator stated.
In testimony earlier this month, FBI Director Christopher Wray said he was “very troubled” by claims that the agency handled the laptop improperly.
In the meanwhile, sources tell CNN that the Department of Justice investigation in Delaware has stepped up recently as it considers whether to file charges for tax offenses or making false claims about buying a gun.
Given his well-known difficulties with drug addiction at the time, Hunter would not have been allowed to purchase a gun.
He admitted that he was under investigation for tax difficulties following the 2020 election, but he maintained his innocence.