A former senior FBI official thrust into the spotlight last year after whistleblowers accused him of misconduct defended himself to Congress this month, saying unequivocally he never used his position to advance a political agenda.
Timothy Thibault, former assistant special agent in charge in the FBI’s Washington Field Office, spoke in candid detail to the House Judiciary Committee for hours as he sought to set the record straight on numerous accusations made against him, according to his nearly 300-page testimony obtained by the Washington Examiner.
Thibault said during his testimony he did make a decision to close a Hunter Biden-related source file in October of that year, but he emphasized he did not act alone and that he, in general, had little interaction with the Hunter Biden case, which was being run by the FBI's Baltimore Field Office. “I deduced from everything [Gordon] said that they already had the information from some other source, some other channel, maybe not a human source but some other channel," Thibault said."He also said that that person was politically connected and partisan in his view and he was concerned about the source being on media platforms.”
Thibault said that in addition to Gordon's call, FBI headquarters also called him with concerns about the source and that agents could discuss them with Thibault in a classified setting with the Foreign Influence Task Force on Oct. 21, 2020, two weeks ahead of the 2020 election. The FITF was at the time in the throes of handling election-related information, including addressing questions from social media companies about the New York Post's story about Hunter Biden's laptop.
He also emphasized that he did not act alone and only made the decision to close the source file after consulting with Gordon, FITF agents, public corruption agents and supervisors, and Thibault's own boss. "But neither Bobulinski nor his lawyer was contacted again. Nor was Bobulinski brought before a Delaware grand jury investigating Hunter," the New York Post stated, accusing Thibault of hiding"intel."
From there, Thibault said he made well-documented efforts to make sure anything Passantino had was turned over to the Baltimore Field Office. The Washington Examiner also thoroughly detailed many examples of political bias from Thibault’s apparent Twitter account. The same account quickly became private and blocked the Washington Examiner after the bias allegations surfaced.
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