{"id":1640036,"date":"2022-09-13T12:04:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T16:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1640036"},"modified":"2022-09-13T12:05:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T16:05:00","slug":"gop-senator-top-fbi-official-accused-of-closing-down-hunter-biden-probe-must-testify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-senator-top-fbi-official-accused-of-closing-down-hunter-biden-probe-must-testify\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Senator: Top FBI Official Accused of Closing Down Hunter Biden Probe Must Testify"},"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%2Fgop-senator-top-fbi-official-accused-of-closing-down-hunter-biden-probe-must-testify%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=1640036&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 top FBI official who left the bureau last month should be asked to testify before the Senate, said\u00a0Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-chuck-grassley\">Chuck Grassley<\/a> (R-Iowa) on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>FBI Assistant Special Agent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-timothy-thibault\">Timothy Thibault<\/a> confirmed via his lawyers that he left the law enforcement agency last month.\u00a0Thibault is accused by Republicans\u2014citing whistleblower testimony\u2014of shutting down an investigation into Hunter Biden even though some of the details about the case were known to be true.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFBI officials wanted to take action with respect to this separate investigative information the FBI had in its possession related to Hunter Biden. However, Thibault blocked the FBI from doing what would normally be done,\u201d Grassley told lawmakers from the Senate floor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccordingly, the investigative activity and information could not be advanced as it should\u2019ve been, which means the FBI could have gathered more evidence with respect to Hunter Biden but cut bait instead. And the FBI and Thibault cut bait right before the 2020 presidential election,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the senator accused\u00a0Thibault of allegedly opening an investigation against former President Donald Trump and shut down an investigation into Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Thibault was named several times by Grassley and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) in letters to the FBI, alleging he displayed an animus towards Trump. That included Thibault having shared a Twitter post that called then-President Trump \u201ca psychologically broken, embittered, and deeply unhappy man,\u201d Grassley wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Thibault might have violated the Hatch Act over that Twitter post and others that criticized former\u00a0Attorney General Bill Barr and other Republicans, said Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz in a report last month.<\/p>\n<p>In July, FBI whistleblowers told Grassley and other GOP lawmakers (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/grassley_to_justice_deptfbipoliticalbiasfollowup.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) that when the bureau obtained information in 2020 about Hunter Biden\u2019s\u00a0\u201ccriminal financial and related activity,\u201d it was suppressed by Thibault.<\/p>\n<p> Response <\/p>\n<p>In<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top FBI official who left the bureau last month should be asked to testify before the Senate, said\u00a0Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Tuesday. FBI Assistant Special Agent Timothy Thibault confirmed via his lawyers that he left the law enforcement agency last month.\u00a0Thibault is accused by Republicans\u2014citing whistleblower testimony\u2014of shutting down an investigation into Hunter [\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-1640036","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\/1640036","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=1640036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640036\/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=1640036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}