FBI Agent Under Fire in Hunter Biden Investigation Refuses GOP Request to Testify
The FBI agent who recently left the bureau following whistleblower allegations that he shut down evidence about the Hunter Biden investigation is rejecting congressional Republicans’ requests to testify.
Timothy Thibault, the former FBI assistant special agent in charge of the Washington Field Office, closed up a key line of inquiry into now-President Joe Biden’s son in October 2020 despite some of the evidence being known to be true at the time, according to whistleblower allegations. Republicans in the House and Senate are calling for Thibault to speak with them.
But the now-retired FBI official rejected the interview request from Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee who has vowed to pursue this further if the GOP wins a majority and he gets the gavel following the November midterm elections.
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“Concerning the request for an interview, because the subject matter pertains to sensitive law enforcement information and/or pending investigations, our client is not in a position to accept this invitation at this juncture,” Thibault lawyer Charles Duross of Morrison-Foerster told Jordan earlier this month in a letter first obtained by the New York Post.
Jordan has now blasted Thibault about the FBI’s official’s decision not to sit down for an interview.
“Your refusal to testify is curious in light of your earlier public statement that you ‘welcome any investigation’ into these matters. … As we continue to investigate the politicization of the Justice Department and FBI, your testimony remains crucial to our inquiry,” Jordan wrote back to Thibault. “Your baseless assertion that ‘sensitive law enforcement information and/or pending investigations’ prevents your cooperation with our inquiry ignores the importance of congressional oversight.”
Thibault “ordered closed” an “avenue of additional derogatory Hunter Biden reporting” in October 2020, even though “all of the reporting was either verified or verifiable via criminal search warrants,” according to whistleblower disclosures made public by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) in July.
Thibault left the FBI in August. His lawyers released a statement at the time, saying he “was not fired, not forced to retire, and not asked to retire.”
“There have also been allegations that Mr. Thibault took certain actions in investigations for partisan political reasons,” Thibault’s attorneys said. “Mr. Thibault welcomes any investigation of these false allegations, regardless of his retirement. He firmly believes that any investigation will conclude his supervision, leadership, and decision-making were not impacted by political bias or partisanship of any kind.”
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Thibault’s lawyer added, “Mr. Thibault did not supervise the investigation of Hunter Biden. … In 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.”
Grassley cited Thibault’s statement during a Senate floor speech in September.
“Thibault said that he ‘welcomes
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