{"id":1657389,"date":"2022-09-25T18:34:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T22:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1657389"},"modified":"2022-09-25T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T22:35:00","slug":"house-republicans-warn-ex-fbi-agent-to-not-destroy-documents-related-to-hunter-biden-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-warn-ex-fbi-agent-to-not-destroy-documents-related-to-hunter-biden-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans Warn Ex-FBI Agent to Not Destroy Documents Related to Hunter Biden Investigation"},"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%2Fhouse-republicans-warn-ex-fbi-agent-to-not-destroy-documents-related-to-hunter-biden-investigation%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=1657389&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>Timothy Thibault, a former top FBI official who left the bureau last month, has been warned to not alter or destroy documents and communications in his possession, particularly those connected to his work on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-hunter-biden\">Hunter Biden<\/a> investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The warning came from three Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee who sent a Sept. 23 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JudiciaryGOP\/status\/1573670352047202305\">letter<\/a> to Thibault, asking the former FBI agent to \u201cpreserve all existing and future records and materials\u201d in his possession.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhistleblowers have come to Congress alleging that you were part of a scheme to undermine and discredit allegations of criminal wrongdoing by members of the Biden family. Accordingly, we believe that you possess information relating to our investigation and we request your assistance with our inquiry,\u201d the letter reads.<\/p>\n<p>The letter was signed by Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-jim-jordan\">Jim Jordan<\/a> (R-Ohio), the committee\u2019s ranking Republican member; Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-darrell-issa\">Darrell Issa<\/a> (R-Calif.); and Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.).<\/p>\n<p>Before leaving the FBI, Thibault was an assistant special agent in charge at the bureau\u2019s Washington Field Office.<\/p>\n<p>Thibault came under close scrutiny in late July after FBI whistleblowers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/fbi-wrongly-labeled-derogatory-information-on-hunter-biden-as-disinformation-whistleblowers_4622264.html\">told<\/a> Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) that the former FBI official \u201cordered closed\u201d information that the bureau had obtained about Hunter Biden\u2019s \u201ccriminal financial and related activity\u201d in 2020.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/04\/25\/GettyImages-1233045326-1200x800-1200x800.jpg\"><\/a> Hunter Biden walks to Marine One on the Ellipse outside the White House on May 22, 2021. (Brendan Smialowski\/AFP via Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>Grassley has also noted (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/CEG%20to%20DOJ%20OIG%20(WFO).pdf\">pdf<\/a>) how Thibault had displayed a political bias against former President Donald Trump, citing his Twitter activities. For example, Thibault once shared a Twitter post that called Trump \u201ca psychologically broken, embittered, and deeply unhappy man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Thibault\u2019s lawyers with Morrison &#038; Foerster\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/republicans-respond-after-top-fbi-agent-reportedly-resigns_4698636.html\">told<\/a> The Epoch Times in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/fbi-official-accused-of-blocking-probe-into-hunter-biden-says-he-retired-wasnt-fired_4701294.html\">statement<\/a> in August that he didn\u2019t show any political partisanship in his work and \u201cdid not supervise the investigation of Hunter Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy Thibault, a former top FBI official who left the bureau last month, has been warned to not alter or destroy documents and communications in his possession, particularly those connected to his work on the Hunter Biden investigation. 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