by Kyle Becker at Becker News
FBI whistleblowers have come forward to reveal a disturbing pattern of senior department officials handling politically charged investigations in a partisan manner in the weeks leading up to the raid on Mar-a-Lago.
The whistleblower reports began in late July with a public release from Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), ranking member on the Judiciary Committee, on the “double standard In pursuit of politically charged investigations By senior FBI, DOJ officials,”
“Multiple FBI whistleblowers, including those in senior positions, are raising the alarm about tampering by senior FBI and Justice Department officials in politically sensitive investigations ranging from election and campaign finance probes across multiple election cycles to investigative activity involving derogatory information on Hunter Biden’s financial and foreign business activities,” Grassley’s report said. “The legally protected disclosures to Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley suggest a political double standard has influenced and infected decisions in matters of paramount public interest.”
In particular, Washington Field Office Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault was implicated in the unprecedented raid on the former president’s home. FBI agents from the Washington field office were among the more than thirty agents who were directly involved in carrying out the raid.
“Whistleblowers allege that Washington Field Office Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault disregarded agency guidelines requiring substantial factual predication to trigger investigations, while declining to move forward with other investigations despite proper predication,” the senator’s office stated. “Thibault and Richard Pilger, director of the election crimes branch within the FBI’s public integrity section, reportedly were instrumental in the opening of an investigation into the Trump campaign and its associates based in substantial part on information from left-aligned organization. Thibault allegedly scrubbed and diluted details of the sources’ political bias from a memo seeking the full investigation, which was ultimately approved by FBI Director Chris Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland.”
Both Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray were involved…
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