Two senior Republican lawmakers released protected whistleblower disclosures Thursday revealing how an anti-Trump FBI agent went outside established agency protocols for opening probes to help launch the federal election interference case against the president.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley of Iowa and Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Ron Johnson of Wisconsin released internal FBI emails and documents that exposed an alleged political scheme by Timothy Thibault, a former FBI assistant Special Agent in Charge.
Mr. Thibault, whom The Washington Times first reported in August 2022 was forced to retire from the FBI after exposing his anti-Trump bias, authored the initial language for what ultimately became special prosecutor Jack Smith’s federal case against Mr. Trump regarding the 2020 presidential election, according to the new whistleblower documents provided by the GOP senators.
According to the newly released records, Mr. Thibault essentially opened and approved his own investigation, for which the FBI titled the subsequent investigation “Arctic Frost.”
The records further show that Justice Department official Richard Pilger, who worked in the Public Integrity Section, reviewed and approved the FBI’s Arctic Frost investigation, and approved the Justice Department to go ahead with a full field criminal and Grand Jury investigation that became the Trump elector case.
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