Former Washington Field Office Special Agent in Charge Tim Thibault was reportedly escorted out of the Bureau’s headquarters on Friday, amid whistleblower allegations that he showed political bias in his handling of politically sensitive investigations.
The Washington Times reported eyewitness accounts that Mr. Thibault was seen exiting the bureau’s elevator last Friday escorted by two or three ‘headquarters-looking types.’
Whistleblowers alleged that Thibault concealed the partisan nature of evidence from FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland to secure their approval to open an investigation into former President Donald Trump. That investigation culminated in the FBI’s raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this month.
Some of that evidence included, “information from news articles, including a CBS Miami piece titled “Moving Trucks Spotted At Mar-a-Lago.” In other words, if CBS News suggested moving trucks “spotted” (by whom, we wonder) at Mar-a-Lago implicated Trump was removing documents from his home, by golly that was good enough for Trump hater Special Agent Tim Thibault.
Bickerstaff wonders if Messrs Wray and Merrick believe axing this fellow is sufficient to deflect the heat on them and make Mar-a-Lago go away. If the Republicans make a huge stink, perhaps not, but don’t count on it. The media, if they run the story at all, will play it as if the party responsible for the debacle has been caught. Now that he’s been weeded out and transfered to another office, that’s the end of the matter of Mar-a-Lago, that it’s time to move on.
THE TAOS TATLER. 