{"id":1627490,"date":"2022-08-30T23:33:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T03:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1627490"},"modified":"2022-08-30T23:34:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T03:34:30","slug":"agent-accused-of-scuttling-hunter-biden-probe-out-at-fbi-counsel-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/agent-accused-of-scuttling-hunter-biden-probe-out-at-fbi-counsel-confirms\/","title":{"rendered":"Agent Accused Of Scuttling Hunter Biden Probe Out At FBI, Counsel Confirms"},"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%2Fagent-accused-of-scuttling-hunter-biden-probe-out-at-fbi-counsel-confirms%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=1627490&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>One of the top officials at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/fbi\">FBI<\/a>\u2019s Washington Field Office confirms he is out at the bureau amid allegations that he interfered and improperly blocked a probe into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/hunter-biden\">Hunter Biden<\/a> ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/2020-election\">2020 election<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Timothy Thibault\u2019s attorneys at the firm Morrison &#038; Foerster released a statement on behalf of their client on Tuesday evening. The attorneys claimed that Thibault freely resigned his position at the bureau and denied <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fbi-agent-who-allegedly-killed-hunter-biden-laptop-probe-resigns-reportedly-escorted-from-hq\">reports<\/a> that the former assistant special agent in charge of the Washington Field Office had been forced out, or that he was escorted out of office by FBI agents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Thibault was not fired, not forced to retire, and not asked to retire. On his last day, as part of his processing, Mr. Thibault turned in his security badge and walked with two long-time special agent friends through the field office to finish processing his paperwork. He walked out of the building by himself,\u201d a statement from Thibault\u2019s attorneys and posted online by CBS News correspondent Catherine Herridge said.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MEDIA STATEMENT ON BEHALF OF TIMOTHY R. THIBAULT<br \/>For Immediate Release\u2070[Timothy R. Thibault has retained the pro bono services of Morrison &#038; Foerster LLP.]\u00a0\u00a0The following statement may be used, in whole or part, + attributed to Mr. Thibault\u2019s counsel at Morrison &#038; Foerster LLP <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xpWA6hxguJ\">pic.twitter.com\/xpWA6hxguJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBS_Herridge\/status\/1564770303686971392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thibault came under scrutiny after Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, revealed a number of partisan social media posts in May that Thibault made to his accounts on Twitter and LinkedIn. The posts targeted former President Donald Trump and former Attorney General Bill Barr. Grassley said the posts potentially ran afoul of federal law and department policy on partisan behavior.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been allegations that his social media posts violated the Hatch Act, and those allegations are being investigated by the Office of Special Counsel. Mr. Thibault is cooperating with that investigation, urges the office to complete its review, and expects to be fully exonerated,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>In July, Grassley further <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/news\/news-releases\/whistleblowers-reports-reveal-double-standard-in-pursuit-of-politically-charged-investigations-by-senior-fbi-doj-officials\">revealed<\/a>, based on FBI whistleblower accounts, allegations that Thibault \u201cremoved or watered-down\u201d references to \u201cleft-wing entities\u201d that were the source of much of the foundation of a request to open an investigation into former President Donald Trump\u2019s 2020 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Around the same time, Thibault also suppressed a probe into Hunter Biden, whistleblowers who spoke to Grassley\u2019s office alleged. Thibault ordered an avenue of investigation into Biden \u201cclosed without providing a valid reason as required by FBI guidelines.\u201d Further, Thibault \u201cattempted to improperly mark the matter in FBI systems so that it could not be opened in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thibault denied the allegations, claiming that he had nothing to do with any decision \u201crelated to any laptop,\u201d referencing Biden\u2019s laptop obtained by the FBI in 2019 from the owner of a Delaware computer repair shop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Thibault welcomes any investigation of these false allegations, regardless of his retirement. He firmly believes that any investigation will conclude that his supervision, leadership and decision making were not impacted by political bias or partisanship of any kind,\u201d the statement said. \u201cThibault was not involved in any decision related to any laptop that may be at issue in that investigation, and he did not seek to close the investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Thibault\u2019s exit from the bureau was first reported on Monday, Grassley said in a statement that Thibault\u2019s \u201cblatant partisanship undermined the work and reputation of the FBI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis type of bias in high-profile investigations casts a shadow over all of the bureau\u2019s work that he was involved in, which ranged from opening an investigation into Trump based on liberal news articles to shutting down investigative activity into Hunter Biden that was based on verified information,\u201d Grassley added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the top officials at the FBI\u2019s Washington Field Office confirms he is out at the bureau amid allegations that he interfered and improperly blocked a probe into Hunter Biden ahead of the 2020 election. Timothy Thibault\u2019s attorneys at the firm Morrison &#038; Foerster released a statement on behalf of their client on Tuesday &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1627492,"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-1627490","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\/1627490","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1627492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}