{"id":5903,"date":"2022-08-31T02:26:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T20:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=5903"},"modified":"2022-08-31T02:26:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T20:26:46","slug":"top-fbi-agent-resigns-amid-claims-he-shielded-hunter-biden-from-probe-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/photonews\/2022\/08\/31\/news\/5903\/","title":{"rendered":"Top FBI agent resigns amid claims he shielded Hunter Biden from probe: report"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"WASHINGTON, Broadcasting news corporation : A top FBI agent at the Washington field office reportedly resigned from his post last week after facing intense scrutiny over allegations he helped shield Hunter Biden from criminal investigations into his laptop and business dealings. Timothy Thibault, an FBI assistant special agent in charge, was allegedly forced out after he was accused of political bias in his handling of probes involving President Biden\u2019s son, sources told the Washington Times on Monday. The agent was escorted out of the field office by at least two \u201cheadquarters-looking types\u201d last Friday, the sources said. Thibault and the FBI didn\u2019t immediately respond to The Post\u2019s request for comment on Monday. Thibault, a 25-year-veteran, had already been on leave for a month after the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), started raising concerns about whistleblower claims that the FBI had obstructed its own investigations into the first son. In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray in July, Grassley said Thibault and FBI supervisory intelligence analyst Brian Auten were allegedly involved in \u201ca scheme\u201d to \u201cundermine derogatory information connected to Hunter Biden by falsely suggesting it was disinformation.\u201d Thibault also allegedly tried to kill off a valid avenue of investigation of possible Hunter Biden criminality until at least one month before the November 2020 election, according to Grassley. \u201cThibault allegedly ordered the matter closed without providing a valid reason as required by FBI guidelines \u2026 [and] subsequently attempted to improperly mark the matter in FBI systems so that it could not be opened in the future,\u201d Grassley wrote. It was the same month The Post first started reporting on Hunter Biden\u2019s<\/p>\n

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FBI Director Christopher Wray<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

abandoned laptop, which included troves of emails related to his shady overseas business dealings. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg revealed last week that the social media giant suppressed The Post\u2019s bombshell Hunter Biden report following a vague FBI warning about possible \u201cRussian propaganda\u201d tied to the 2020 presidential election. \u201cBasically, the background here is the FBI, I think, basically came to us \u2014 some folks on our team \u2014 and was like, \u2018Hey, just so you know, like, you should be on high alert,\u2019\u201d Zuckerberg told \u201cThe Joe Rogan Experience\u201d podcast. Zuckerberg said the FBI added, \u201c\u2018We thought that there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election. We have it on notice that, basically, there\u2019s about to be some kind of dump that\u2019s similar to that. So just be vigilant.\u2019\u201d Meanwhile, Republican senators have also publicly scrutinized Thibault\u2019s alleged anti-Trump social media activity ahead of the 2020 election, including a retweet of a Lincoln Project message that called Donald Trump a \u201cpsychologically broken, embittered and deeply unhappy man.\u201d He also allegedly tweeted that he wanted to \u201cgive Kentucky to the Russian Federation.\u201d Wray admitted under grilling from GOP senators earlier this month that allegations of political bias at the hands of FBI agents, including Thibault, were \u201cdeeply troubling.\u201d NEWS COLLECTED FROM NEW YORK POST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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