(Washington D.C.) -- U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa says multiple whistleblowers are raising concerns about corruption within the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice. Grassley has written a letter to the directors of both the F-B-I and the D-O-J about claims of tampering by senior officials in politically sensitive investigations. Grassley says the investigations range from election and campaign finance probes to Hunter Biden's financial and foreign business activities.
Grassley says 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. Thibault allegedly scrubbed and diluted details of the sources’ political bias from a memo seeking the full investigation, which was ultimately approved by FBI Director Chris Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland.
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