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Thibault Possibly Bait?

Grassley raises alarm over 'partisan' social media posts linked to FBI official

by Jerry Dunleavy, Justice Department Reporter |

| May 31, 2022 10:34 PM

| Updated Jun 01, 2022, 06:12 PM

Thibault’s purported LinkedIn account states that he is currently an assistant special agent in charge at the Washington field office in the nation’s capital, a position it says he has held since August 2020. The account says he has been in the FBI for more than 25 years, was an assistant section chief for international terrorism operations from December 2018 to August 2020 (including being the acting section chief from May 2019 to March 2020), and was a supervisory special agent before that.

Grassley noted Thibault had “liked” a LinkedIn post of a Washington Post opinion piece in February 2020 titled “The Justice Department confirms things are even worse than we feared.” The column repeatedly critiqued Barr’s tenure at the Justice Department.

The senator pointed out thatThibault also likedanother Washington Post column in September 2020, this one titled “William Barr has gone rogue.” The article criticized Barr’s handling of the cases against retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and Trump associate Roger Stone. Grassley showed that Thibault directly posted on his LinkedIn another Washington Post piece in September 2020 titled “Why the Michael Flynn case still matters.”

Grassley also said he had found the FBI official's Twitter account and pointed out that Thibault retweeted an anti-Trump Lincoln Project tweet that said, “Donald Trump is a psychologically broken, embittered, and deeply unhappy man.” The article by the Atlantic, which the Lincoln Project was sharing, was itself titled “Donald Trump is a Broken Man.”

The senator noted Thibault responded to a November 2020 tweet from Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson mocking the election of Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), with Thibault replying, “Thank God for Mississippi — state motto of Alabama.”

When the Rev. Frank Pavone, a Catholic priest, tweeted in December 2019 that “abortion destroys everything it touches” and contended that the impeachment efforts against former President Donald Trump were in part inspired by the former president’s anti-abortion stance,Thibault replied, “Focus on the pedophiles.” The tweet has since been deleted.

When Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) tweeted in June 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic that “Dick Cheney says WEAR A MASK” and shared a photo of her father masked up, Thibault replied in a since-deleted tweet, “Your dad was a disgrace.”

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>Thibault Possibly Bait?

>Grassley raises alarm over 'partisan' social media posts linked to FBI official

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Grassley added, “Equally concerning is that ASAC Thibault, while overseeing and directing the FBI’s most significant federal public corruption investigations, traveled to the Czech Republic to attend the same seminar with Bruce and Nellie Ohr in February 2016.”Nellie Ohr had been employed by the opposition research firm Fusion GPS in 2016. Fusion, which had been hired by Clinton campaign general counsel Marc Elias, hired British ex-spy Christopher Steele to create his discredited dossier. Former DOJ official Bruce Ohr served as a back channel to the FBI for Steele after he was cut off as a confidential source.

“These illustrative social media posts call into question ASAC Thibault’s ability to perform the duties and responsibilities of an FBI agent objectively and without bias,” Grassley wrote. “His social media posts require investigation into what, if any, oversight Department leadership has done to ensure that investigative decisions under his charge have not been infected with a political bias.”

Beyond his social media presence, Thibault held a press conference last week in a case in which a man was sentenced to more than two decades in prison for giving a woman drugs laced with fentanyl and then attempting to hide her dead body. He was quoted in a DOJ press release last year related to a former alleged Atomwaffen Division leader being sentenced in a swatting conspiracy.

Grassley said in a footnote that Thibault’s Twitter and LinkedIn had previously featured the same profile picture until he changed both of them. The LinkedIn page now displays his FBI photo, 'while the Twitter account now has a “Pray for Ukraine” picture with a teary eye and the colors of the Ukrainian flag.

Thibault tweeted just last month, “Can we give Kentucky to the Russian Federation?” Republican Sens. Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul are both from that state.

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