{"id":1589556,"date":"2022-08-04T16:55:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T20:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1589556"},"modified":"2022-08-04T16:56:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T20:56:03","slug":"sen-john-kennedy-reads-fbi-agents-anti-gop-tweets-into-the-congressional-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-john-kennedy-reads-fbi-agents-anti-gop-tweets-into-the-congressional-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. John Kennedy Reads FBI Agent\u2019s Anti-GOP Tweets Into The Congressional Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsen-john-kennedy-reads-fbi-agents-anti-gop-tweets-into-the-congressional-record%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1589556&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy punctuated a Judiciary Committee hearing in which Republicans focused on the FBI\u2019s alleged politicization by reading an agent\u2019s anti-GOP tweets into the congressional record.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy was one of several Republican senators to suggest that FBI agents are too pro-Democrat to impartially investigate crimes. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/04\/ted-cruz-christopher-wray-fbi-project-veritas-leak-gadsden-betsy-ross-flag\/\">questioned<\/a> FBI Director Christopher Wray on a leaked document purporting to show that the bureau considers the Betsy Ross and Gadsden flags to potentially be extremist symbols, while Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee suggested that the U.S. has a \u201ctwo-tiered system of justice\u201d based on political ideology. Wray pushed back on their assessments, saying that the vast majority of FBI agents remain appropriately apolitical.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy asked Wray about several tweets from Timothy Thibault, former Washington Field Office Assistant Special Agent in Charge, who committee ranking member Chuck Grassley has alleged shut down an investigation into Hunter Biden. Wray declined to directly address Thibault\u2019s tweets, saying that he could not comment on an \u201con-going personnel matter,\u201d although he did acknowledge that Thibault held the position \u201cuntil fairly recently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grassley called the FBI\u2019s attention to Thibault\u2019s tweets in a May 31 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/CEG%20to%20DOJ%20FBI%20(WFO).pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter<\/a>, claiming that they were \u201c<span class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">likely a violation of his ethical obligations\u201d and \u201cpresent a grave risk of political infection and bias in his official decision-making process.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/21\/army-investigation-sergeant-major-west-point-accused-trolling-elected-officials-president-twitter\/\">(RELATED: Army Launches Investigation After Sergeant Major At West Point Accused Of Trolling Elected Officials, President On Twitter)<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thibault frequently replied to and retweeted posts critical of Republicans, calling former Vice President Dick Cheney \u201ca disgrace\u201d in a June 26, 2020 tweet.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7494423\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7494423\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7494423\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/thibault-cheney.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/thibault-cheney.jpg 963w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/thibault-cheney-91x120.jpg 91w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/thibault-cheney-471x620-1.jpg 471w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/thibault-cheney-768x1011-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/thibault-cheney-1536x2022-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/thibault-cheney-2048x2696-1-scaled.jpg 2048w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7494423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot via Internet Archive<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIs it true that in September of 2020, Special Agent Thibault went on social media and liked a Washington Post article entitled, \u2018William Barr Has Gone Rogue?&#8217;\u201d Kennedy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l0TH3JU1QL0\">asked<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to be a little bit careful about how far we can go in this conversation because of specific ongoing personnel matters,\u201d Wray responded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsn\u2019t it also true that in September of 2020, Special Agent Thibault went on social media and posted a Washington Post article entitled, \u2018Why The Michael Flynn Case Still Matters?&#8217;\u201d Kennedy asked.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy also noted Thibault\u2019s retweet of a Lincoln Project <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProjectLincoln\/status\/1285609470056378368\">tweet<\/a> claiming that Trump is a \u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">psychologically broken, embittered, and deeply unhappy man,\u201d and his claim that \u201cThank God for Mississippi\u201d is \u201cthe state motto of Alabama,\u201d in response to the election of Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a senior employee at the FBI with years of experience going on social media and tweeting this kind of stuff,\u201d Kennedy said, \u201cwhich gives people the impression there is bias. Whether there is or there isn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy punctuated a Judiciary Committee hearing in which Republicans focused on the FBI\u2019s alleged politicization by reading an agent\u2019s anti-GOP tweets into the congressional record.Kennedy was one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1589556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}