Ex-FBI agent involved in Hunter Biden, Trump probes celebrated Peter Navarros 2022 indictment: Wow. Great
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) released internal FBI emails Thursday showing at least one former agent celebrated the Biden administration Justice Department’s June 2022 decision to slap contempt of Congress charges against White House adviser Peter Navarro.“Wow.Great,” wrote former FBI Washington Field Office Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault, in an email to colleagues upon learning in May 2022 that Navarro would be prosecuted for failing to comply with a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the Jan.
6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. Thibault was among several agents in the FBI’s Washington Field Office who played a lead role in investigating President Trump and his allies, as well as former first son Hunter Biden. Thibault’s celebratory note is one of several emails Grassley included in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, demanding more communications between Thibault and his colleagues be released. “I am making these emails public in the interest of transparency,” wrote Grassley.“The American people have a right to know as much as possible regarding the internal Biden Justice Department and FBI process to determine where to allocate taxpayer resources to investigate and prosecute former Trump officials.”“Moreover, the FBI officials involved in the Navarro case were also involved in the politically-infected cases against President Trump, to include Arctic Frost and Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation.” In a separate email, from May 19, 2022, former FBI Special Agent Walter Giardina notes that the DC US Attorneys Office “after consultation with main Justice” opted not to pursue charges against former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Trump aide Dan Scavino but that “they would like to charge Navarro in the next two weeks.” Giardina then lays out the plan for what the FBI must do to secure an indictment. “Here is wha...