{"id":1633183,"date":"2022-09-05T10:03:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T14:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1633183"},"modified":"2022-09-05T10:04:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T14:04:00","slug":"damning-new-details-emerge-in-ex-fbi-agents-role-in-shutting-down-hunter-biden-laptop-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/damning-new-details-emerge-in-ex-fbi-agents-role-in-shutting-down-hunter-biden-laptop-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Damning New Details Emerge In Ex-FBI Agent\u2019s Role In Shutting Down Hunter Biden Laptop Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fdamning-new-details-emerge-in-ex-fbi-agents-role-in-shutting-down-hunter-biden-laptop-probe%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=1633183&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>The extraordinary alleged efforts of a former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/fbi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FBI<\/a> agent to shut down a probe into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/agent-accused-of-scuttling-hunter-biden-probe-out-at-fbi-counsel-confirms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop<\/a> were detailed Monday in a new report from the author of a best-selling book about the affair.<\/p>\n<p>Timothy Thibault, who left the bureau last month under mysterious circumstances, spiked further questioning of former Biden pal-turned-whistleblower Tony Bobulinski, who had offered damning evidence about alleged Biden family corruption, just two weeks before the 2020 presidential election, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/09\/04\/fbi-agent-timothy-thibault-hid-intel-from-whistleblower-on-hunter-the-big-guy-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to New York Post columnist Miranda Devine<\/a>, author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Laptop-Hell-Hunter-Secrets-President\/dp\/163758105X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Laptop From Hell<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bobulinski\u2019s \u201cevidence appears to have fallen into the same black hole at the FBI as Hunter\u2019s laptop, never to be seen again,\u201d Devine wrote in a column Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The computer, which Hunter Biden abandoned at a Wilmington, Delaware, computer repair shop, is believed to have been in the possession of the FBI since late 2019, more than a year before the election. Photos, videos, emails, and text messages on the device, which were also ignored by legacy news outlets, paint the president\u2019s son as a drug-addled, venal degenerate and raise troubling questions about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/joe-biden-spoke-with-hunter-about-dealings-with-chinese-oil-tycoon-voicemail-reveals\">President Joe Biden\u2019s own role in his son\u2019s corrupt dealings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Column\u2019s up: FBI agent Timothy Thibault hid intel from whistleblower Tony Bobulinksi on Hunter and Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2p4scCV9GS\">https:\/\/t.co\/2p4scCV9GS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mirandadevine\/status\/1566762473008537600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thibault was the Washington Field Office\u2019s point man to manage Bobulinski, according to Devine. Bobulinski was interviewed by the FBI for more than five hours on October 23, 2020, and told agents what he knew about then-presidential candidate Joe Biden\u2019s involvement in his son\u2019s shady international business deals.\u00a0The interview came a day after Bobulinski named Joe Biden as \u201cthe Big Guy\u201d Hunter Biden referenced in an email as being due 10% of the proceeds of a payout from Chinese energy firm CEFC.<\/p>\n<p>Bobulinski turned over to the FBI the contents of three cellphones containing encrypted messages between Hunter and his business partners, along with emails and financial documents detailing alleged\u00a0Biden family corruption during Joe Biden\u2019s two terms as vice president, according to Devine.<\/p>\n<p>Bobulinski told FBI agents all about the deal with CEFC, the Beijing-controlled company charged with expanding China\u2019s energy influence into Russia, Oman, Romania, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and beyond, Devine reported. CEFC chairman Ye Jianming was arrested by Chinese authorities in 2018 after his $9 billion acquisition of Russian oil giant Rosneft fell through.<\/p>\n<p>Bobulinski, a decorated former Naval officer with top secret security clearances from the National Security Agency and the Department of Energy, also reportedly detailed Hunter Biden\u2019s dealings with Mykola Zlochevsky, owner of Ukrainian energy company Burisma, and with retired FBI director Louis Freeh.<\/p>\n<p>After the interview, Bobulinski and his lawyer were given Thibault\u2019s cellphone number and told he would advise them on the next steps. But neither Bobulinski nor his lawyer was ever contacted by Thibault, and Bobulinski was never brought in to testify before a Delaware grand jury investigating Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Thibault retired two weeks ago amid an investigation by Special Counsel John Durham into his anti-Trump activities. Republican senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson have publicly accused Thibault of interfering in the Hunter Biden probe, and say they have more than a dozen whistleblowers who have told them FBI officials barred them from investigating damning evidence on the laptop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn October 2020, an avenue of additional derogatory Hunter Biden reporting was ordered closed at the direction of ASAC Thibault,\u201d Grassley wrote six weeks ago in a letter to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/former-fbi-agent-some-fbi-agents-want-director-wray-to-resign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FBI Director Christopher Wray<\/a>\u00a0and Attorney General Merrick Garland.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tippinsights.com\/shock-poll-8-in-10-think-biden-laptop-cover-up-changed-election\/\">recent poll by Technometrica Institute of Policy and Politics<\/a>\u00a0suggested that 79% of Americans believe President Trump likely would have won re-election if voters had known about the contents of Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop and that it was authentic.<\/p>\n<p>A lawyer for Thibault denied Grassley\u2019s allegations last week, saying the former agent \u201cdid not supervise the investigation of Hunter Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn particular, Mr. Thibault was not involved in any decisions related to any laptop that may be at issue in that investigation and he did not seek to close the investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The extraordinary alleged efforts of a former FBI agent to shut down a probe into Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop were detailed Monday in a new report from the author of a best-selling book about the affair. Timothy Thibault, who left the bureau last month under mysterious circumstances, spiked further questioning of former Biden pal-turned-whistleblower Tony Bobulinski, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1595034,"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-1633183","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\/1633183","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=1633183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1595034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1633183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1633183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1633183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}