{"id":1628123,"date":"2022-08-31T09:49:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T13:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1628123"},"modified":"2022-08-31T09:49:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T13:49:32","slug":"top-gop-senator-responds-after-top-fbi-agent-reportedly-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-gop-senator-responds-after-top-fbi-agent-reportedly-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Top GOP Senator Responds After Top FBI Agent Reportedly Resigns"},"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\">20<\/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%2Ftop-gop-senator-responds-after-top-fbi-agent-reportedly-resigns%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=1628123&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>A top Republican lawmaker on Tuesday responded to reports that a high-ranking FBI agent, Timothy Thibault, had\u00a0resigned from the bureau last week.<\/p>\n<p>Anonymous sources within the FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/hunter-biden-fbi-agent-timothy-thibault-resigns\/\">told<\/a>\u00a0corporate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/fbi-agent-accused-political-bias-suppressing-hunter-biden-laptop-leaves-bureau\">news<\/a> outlets that Thibault, the\u00a0FBI Assistant special agent in charge, no longer works for the law enforcement agency. He was walked out of the building on Friday, which is the standard procedure, the reports said.<\/p>\n<p>The Epoch Times has contacted the FBI and Department of Justice for comment. Neither agency issued a public statement about the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-chuck-grassley\">Chuck Grassley<\/a> (R-Iowa), whose letters to the FBI\u2019s leadership repeatedly referenced alleged political bias on behalf of Thibault, said the agent \u201cundermined the work and reputation of the FBI\u201d and cast \u201ca shadow over all the bureau\u2019s work that he was involved in,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBS_Herridge\/status\/1564586912991649792\">according<\/a> to a statement from his office issued Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Grassley accused him of \u201copening an investigation into Trump based on liberal news articles\u201d and \u201cshutting down investigative activity into Hunter Biden that was based on verified information.\u201d The senator previously referenced those allegations against Thibault in letters to the FBI director, citing bureau whistleblower complaints against Thibault and other top leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Neither\u00a0Thibault nor the FBI has issued responses to Grassley\u2019s specific claims about alleged political bias.<\/p>\n<p>Grassley\u2019s statement promised more congressional investigations into the FBI and called on the DOJ\u2019s inspector general to further look into bias at the bureau.<\/p>\n<p>Thibault was one of 13 assistant special agents in charge at the Washington, D.C., field office. Reports say Thibault was not involved in the FBI raid targeting former President Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago, although the agency has not confirmed those claims.<\/p>\n<p> Political Bias <\/p>\n<p>The senator signaled that he would continue to press the FBI for any \u201cpolitical bias,\u201d adding that the \u201ceffort to revive the FBI\u2019s credibility can\u2019t stop with [Thibault\u2019s] exit.<\/p>\n<p>Previously,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top Republican lawmaker on Tuesday responded to reports that a high-ranking FBI agent, Timothy Thibault, had\u00a0resigned from the bureau last week. Anonymous sources within the FBI told\u00a0corporate\u00a0news outlets that Thibault, the\u00a0FBI Assistant special agent in charge, no longer works for the law enforcement agency. He was walked out of the building on Friday, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"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-1628123","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\/1628123","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628123\/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=1628123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}