Floor Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee
“The New York Times Shows Its Anti-Whistleblower Bias”
Thursday, February 5, 2026
Mr. President,
Today, I come to the floor to again speak about the New York Times’ anti-whistleblower reporting.
In a January 18, 2026, article, Glenn Thrush, Alan Feuer and Adam Goldman gave another big wet kiss to their fired friends from the Biden DOJ and FBI.
And they did so in an effort to intimidate, smear and discredit brave and patriotic whistleblowers.
This has now become a pattern of conduct by the New York Times, dating back to articles starting in 2023.
On May 18, 2023, Adam Goldman wrote an article designed to undermine my exposure of former FBI agent Thibault’s political conduct.
Goldman wrote his article before knowing all the facts. For one, Thibault was found to have violated the Hatch Act for anti-Trump political conduct at work. Second, Goldman’s article didn’t account for emails I released last year showing Thibault violated the FBI’s rules in opening and advancing Arctic Frost.
Accordingly, Arctic Frost was defective from the start.
Goldman’s article hasn’t aged well.
On January 30, 2025, Alan Feuer and Adam Goldman mischaracterized my and Senator Johnson’s Arctic Frost disclosures by saying “messages showed that FBI investigators took normal bureaucratic steps and precautions” when opening the case.
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