Whistleblowers: FBI and Justice Dept. tampering in politically-sensitive investigations

FBI whistleblowers are raising alarms about what they claim is tampering by senior FBI and Justice Department officials in politically-sensitive investigations. These investigations include election and campaign finance probes across multiple election cycles and investigative activity involving President Biden's son, Hunter, and his controversial financial and foreign business activities.

Recent legally protected disclosures to Senate Judiciary Committee suggest a political double standard has influenced and impacted decisions in matters of predominant public interest

• 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
• 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.

Grassley demanded an explanation from the FBI and DOJ

• In a letter recently sent to FBI director Wray and Attorney General Garland, Grassley wrote the following: "Simply put, if a politically charged investigation is to be opened, the Justice Department and FBI have an obligation to ensure that it's done the right way."

Hunter Biden Investigation

• In August of 2020, FBI supervisory intelligence analyst Brian Auten opened an assessment, which was used by a team of agents at FBI headquarters to improperly discredit and falsely claim that derogatory information about Biden's activities was disinformation, causing investigative activity and sourcing to be shut down.
• The FBI headquarters team allegedly placed their assessment findings in a restricted access subfolder, effectively flagging sources and derogatory evidence related to Hunter Biden as disinformation while shielding the justification for such findings from scrutiny.

Grassley is seeking records related to Auten's assessment, derogatory information received by the FBI related to Hunter Biden, and an accounting of all leads that were either closed out or denied further review by or at the direction of Thibault.

• Director Wray has personally committed to Senator Grassley that whistleblowers who have come forward will not face retaliation. 

https://sharylattkisson.com/2022/08/read-whistleblowers-fbi-and-justice-dept-tampering-in-politically-sensitive-investigations/