{"id":1628133,"date":"2022-08-31T10:04:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T14:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1628133"},"modified":"2022-08-31T10:04:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T14:04:14","slug":"fbi-official-accused-of-blocking-probe-into-hunter-biden-says-he-retired-wasnt-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-official-accused-of-blocking-probe-into-hunter-biden-says-he-retired-wasnt-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Official Accused of Blocking Probe Into Hunter Biden Says He Retired, Wasn\u2019t Fired"},"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\">28<\/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%2Ffbi-official-accused-of-blocking-probe-into-hunter-biden-says-he-retired-wasnt-fired%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=1628133&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>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-fbi\">FBI<\/a> official who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/fbi-wrongly-labeled-derogatory-information-on-hunter-biden-as-disinformation-whistleblowers_4622264.html\">has been accused<\/a> of blocking an investigation into President Joe Biden\u2019s son stepped down this month, lawyers representing the official confirmed to The Epoch Times on Aug. 31.<\/p>\n<p>Timothy Thibault \u201cvoluntarily retired\u201d and \u201cwas not fired, not forced to retire, and not asked to retire,\u201d lawyers with Morrison &#038; Foerster LLP said in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n<p>Thibault, an\u00a0assistant special agent in charge at the FBI\u2019s Washington Field Office, was \u201cescorted\u201d out of the office on Aug. 26, the Washington Times reported. Thibault was \u201cwalked out of the FBI,\u201d CBS reported. Both outlets cited anonymous officials.<\/p>\n<p>Thibault turned in his security badge and \u201cwalked with two long-time special agent friends through the field office to finish processing his paperwork,\u201d Thibault\u2019s lawyers said. \u201cHe walked out of the building by himself. Claims to the contrary are false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thibault was eligible for retirement after working for over 30 years for the government and he informed his bosses about a month before his retirement about his intention to retire, his lawyers say.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Lyttle, a U.S. prosecutor for nearly 17 years and a White House lawyer during the Trump administration, offered praise for Thibault in a statement released by the former official\u2019s counsel. \u201cAgent Thibault spent his career rooting out corruption with integrity and honesty. I am proud to have worked with him and to call him my friend and trusted colleague,\u201d Lyttle, now in private practice, said.<\/p>\n<p>Thibault has come under fire in recent months after Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/senior-fbi-official-likely-broke-ethics-rules-with-anti-trump-animus-grassley_4505020.html\">raised concerns<\/a> about his social media posts, including one that described former President Donald Trump as \u201ca psychologically broken, embittered, and deeply unhappy man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whistleblowers from within the bureau later told Grassley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An FBI official who has been accused of blocking an investigation into President Joe Biden\u2019s son stepped down this month, lawyers representing the official confirmed to The Epoch Times on Aug. 31. Timothy Thibault \u201cvoluntarily retired\u201d and \u201cwas not fired, not forced to retire, and not asked to retire,\u201d lawyers with Morrison &#038; Foerster LLP [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"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-1628133","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\/1628133","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\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628133\/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=1628133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}