House Republicans Warn Ex-FBI Agent Not to Destroy Documents Related to Hunter Biden Investigation
Timothy Thibault, a former top FBI official who left the bureau last month, has been warned not to alter or destroy documents and communications in his possession, particularly those connected to his work on the Hunter Biden investigation.
The warning came from three Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee, when they sent a Sept. 23 letter to Thibault, asking the former FBI agent to “preserve all existing and future records and materials” in his possession.
“Whistleblowers 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,” the letter says.
The letter was signed by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the committee’s ranking member, and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.).
Before leaving the FBI, Thibault was an assistant special agent in charge at the bureau’s Washington Field Office.
Thibault came under close scrutiny in late July after FBI whistleblowers told Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) that the former FBI official “ordered closed” information the bureau had obtained about Hunter Biden’s “criminal financial and related activity” in 2020.
Hunter Biden walks to Marine One on the Ellipse outside the White House in Washington on May 22, 2021. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
Grassley has also exposed (pdf) how Thibault had displayed a political bias against former President Donald Trump, as evident by his Twitter activities. For example, Thibault once shared a Twitter post that called Trump “a psychologically broken, embittered, and deeply unhappy man.”
However, Thibault’s lawyers with Morrison & Foerster LLP told The Epoch Times in a statement in August that he did not show any political partisanship in his work and “did not
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