High-Ranking FBI Agent resigns in shame for obstructing Hunter Biden investigation

The FBI offers up a patsy as sacrifice in the form of forcing out Special Agent Timothy Thibault, but not enough attention is being paid to his accomplice, FBI Analyst Brian Auten.

Of all the dangers our country faces today in the form of existential threats by powerful foes in China, Russia, and many other hostile nations, it’s seeming increasingly more likely that what might destroy the U.S. will come from within. Not by some massive coup or insurrection or whatever fearmongering word the news media is using today, but bureaucracy. It seems far-fetched perhaps until you remember recent events and how one side of the political spectrum is targeted, while the other is protected. If you needed more proof of that before today, then here you go.

FBI assistant special agent in charge (ASAC) Timothy Thibault finds himself out of his cushy career in bureaucracy as more details emerge regarding his role in obstructing the investigation into Hunter Biden’s laptop and insisting that it was ‘Russian disinformation’. I’m thinking we need to ring up more people for using that convenient option select to obstruct justice, but I digress.

Now former-ASAC Thibault was escorted out of the FBI’s Washington Field Office (WFO) on Tuesday — which is standard procedure when someone resigns from the FBI. Still, the optics on it aren’t good, based on that. Sure, he didn’t leave in cuffs, but he might as well have done so.

Thibault had been relieved of his duties as ASAC by FBI Director Wray earlier in the month, but allowed to stay on with the agency. It’s highly likely he was advised to resign during that meeting, but of course you have a media apparatus softening the blow in some cases by suggesting that Thibault retired while begrudgingly admitting the controversy surrounding him.

These events are likely occurring as a direct result of Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley’s letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland. In his letter to Director Wray and AG Garland, Grassley makes some strong contentions about not only Thibault, but his accomplice, FBI Analyst Brian Auten’s own role in the situation.

Grassley starts by recalling that he originally wrote to Wray and Garland on May 31st, 2022 in regard to Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) Timothy Thibault's public social media presence showing a startling amount of public partisanship, and to explore the possibility of violation of laws, regulations, and internal FBI guidelines. Political activity on social media by government officials should fall under the Hatch Act, and if that’s the case, then Thibault is in violation of it.

It is Senator Grassley’s contention that Thibault and Auten worked in concert to bring about the end of any inquiries into the veracity of the Hunter Biden laptop’s contents by writing it off as ‘Russian disinformation’ and burying the matter henceforth.

The first point Grassley makes is related to the fact that the FBI started investigating the laptop’s contents and related information surrounding Hunter Biden’s dirty dealings in 2020. It was in August of 2020 that FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst ( what a blowhard job title ) Brian Auten opened his assessment of the laptop’s contents “…which was used by a FBI Headquarters team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease. Based on allegations, verified and verifiable derogatory information on Hunter Biden was falsely labeled as disinformation,” Grassley writes.

It also just so happens that around the time Auten had begun his assessment of the laptop’s contents through the skewed lens of assumption that it contained nothing but Russian disinfo, Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Senator Grassley were given an unsolicited briefing purportedly related to their Biden investigation, the details of which were later leaked in order to "paint the investigation in a false light" by implying that the two senators were attempting to advance Russian disinformation for the sake of spurious indictments of the Biden family.

What makes me believe that Thibault is the primary patsy in this situation is the fact that Grassley also name drops the likes of Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), who sent a letter — with a classified attachment — to the FBI on July 13, 2020 that Congress was the target of a foreign disinformation campaign. The usual suspects, for the most part. The fact that Adam Schiff, aka the boy who cried Russia, is involved at all should discredit any investigation into Russian interference outright due to his clear bias and unwillingness to accept facts for the sake of political points. These are names that are too big to fail™ so Thibault — and Auten too, most likely — will bear the brunt of punishment and scrutiny for this one. But… let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

Grassley’s allegations continue as he states that,” …in September 2020, investigators from the same FBI HQ team were in communication with FBI agents responsible for the Hunter Biden information targeted by Auten’s assessment. The FBI HQ team’s investigators placed their findings with respect to whether reporting was disinformation in a restricted access sub-file reviewable only by the particular agents responsible for uncovering the specific information. This is problematic because it does not allow for proper oversight and opens the door to improper influence.” Compartmentalization should still at least have immediate oversight, this is reckless practice by the FBI and threatens to undermine the validity of investigations conducted by the agency going forward.

Lastly, Grassley contends that ASAC Thibault ordered additional derogatory Hunter Biden reporting closed in an attempt to bury the case. Grassley states that his office was made aware of an attempt by the FBI HQ to poison the conclusions of the investigating agents and how they would assess the information from the laptop in light of the information the agents themselves had gathered via criminal search warrants, seemingly in hopes of preserving Auten's assessment of the laptop's contents as being Russian disinformation. It seems at this point that ASAC Thibault felt the need to clamp things shut once and for all, allegedly ordering the matter closed without providing a valid reason for closing it, which is required by FBI guidelines.

Grassley then says this, and I believe everyone should read and understand this:
”The aforementioned allegations put a finer point on concerns that I have raised for many years about political considerations infecting the decision-making process at the Justice Department and FBI. If these allegations are true and accurate, the Justice Department and FBI are – and have been – institutionally corrupted to their very core to the point in which the United States Congress and the American people will have no confidence in the equal application of the law.”

To put it simply, this matter threatens to undermine any tatters of faith the American people have left in these institutions.

Grassley concludes by requesting the following info by August 8th, 2022, which we can only conclude he received in light of Thibault’s resignation:

1. The case file for the Auten assessment.

2. All records derived from reporting on derogatory information linked to Hunter Biden, James Biden, and their foreign business relationships that was overseen under the approval, guidance and purview of ASAC Thibault from January 1, 2020, to the present.

3. All records related to derogatory information on Hunter Biden, James Biden, and their foreign business relationships.

4. All leads sent to the WFO (FBI's Washington Field Office) that were under the purview of ASAC Thibault that were ordered closed by ASAC Thibault and/or denied for opening by the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section.

5. All opened and closed cases initiated by the WFO that were under the purview of ASAC Thibault that were ordered closed by ASAC Thibault and/or denied for opening by the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section.

6. With respect to the August 2020 FBI briefing given to Senator Johnson and me:

a. A copy of the FBI 302 for the briefing;

b. All intelligence reporting, products, and analysis that formed the basis of the briefing;

c. The name(s) of the person(s) who recommended that Senator Johnson and I be briefed;

d. A description of the process for deciding to brief us; and

e. All records, including emails, relating to the briefing.

—

While the above mainly addresses the iniquities of Thibault abusing the power of his post to maintain the political status quo seemingly in hopes of protecting the Bidens, I also want to dig into his henchman, Brian Auten, who had also been involved with the Steele dossier fiasco.

Auten, just months before labeling the Hunter Biden laptop's contents as "Russian disinformation", was referred for disciplinary action to the Office of Professional Responsibility for his role in pushing the Steele dossier as fact in light of Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz' December 2019 report on the matter.

The use of FISA surveillance was just one of many shady practices called into question, coupled with Horowitz discovering as many as 17 significant errors and omissions, presumably perpetrated to attempt to synthesize the Steele dossier as factual. So long story short, Auten was involved in the Steele dossier fiasco as well as attempting to dismiss the Hunter Biden laptop's contents as disinfo. Auten is a busy boy — being involved in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation as well as attempting to bury the Hunter Biden laptop story? He’s dedicated to his party.

If you had any questions about Auten’s political leanings, that should be cleared up, now.

And what about the top of the food chain? Wray publicly denounced the actions that whistleblowers leaked from the shady halls of the FBI as “deeply troubling”. It’s entirely likely he’s not in on it, and he forced Thibault out of the Bureau, hoping this will be the end of it. Given the current course of the FBI, and by extension, the Justice Department, that’s highly unlikely. Especially when you remember that AG Garland ordered the raid on Trump’s Mar-A-Lago home. That should be all you need to realize that the FBI’s actions are not accidental and not an isolated incident perpetrated by partisan actors. Wray and his agents at the Bureau get their marching orders from AG Garland, whose checkered history with Republicans should be enough to show that he would never be interested in allowing Hunter Biden to be charged so long as “The big guy™” is in the White House.

Garland no doubt well remembers how he lost his spot on the Supreme Court when Mitch McConnell refused to bring his confirmation up for a vote. Add to that that Trump has promised to eradicate 50,000 bureaucrats should he regain the Presidency, and you’ve got an institutional left establishment ready to resort to anything to retain the power they’ve obtained. As a result he continues to refuse to answer any questions about the prospect of bringing charges against Hunter Biden. If you look up the word ‘corruption’ in the dictionary, Garland’s face is beside it. Partisan politics are going to come to a head sooner rather than later, and it has been a long time coming.

The partisan war didn’t start in 2022, but business is picking up significantly. The swamp monsters will stop at nothing to maintain their cushy careers. The midterm elections may be the most consequential one in history.

I don’t know what the mainstream definition of “election interference” is this week, but this fits the bill for me. It’s time to send the political zealots that have infested government agencies packing. Their very employment is a conflict of interest.

Thanks for reading, if you enjoyed this please consider subscribing here on Substack, and please follow me on my social media.