U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) called for an investigation into potential criminal leakds by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to the media ahead of the 2024 election.
Johnson and U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a letter requesting an investigation of former FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Timothy Thibault, and his associates’ potential breach of FBI information sharing policies. “Legally protected whistleblower disclosures” revealed that Thibault ” shared sensitive, non-public investigative information from his FBI email account with a private citizen with whom he was romantically involved,” said a Johnson press release.
“The FBI repeatedly lectures Congress, without any legitimate basis, that it can’t share information with Congress because the matter is an ongoing investigation,” said Johnson’s letter. “The FBI has asserted to Congress that [For Official Use Only] information and FBI email accounts and personnel names should remain non-public. Yet, here, Thibault sent all of that type of information to a private citizen while the FBI stiff-arms Congress and the American people,” the senators wrote. “
“Thibault’s conduct exemplifies the FBI’s ‘do as I say, not as I do’ hypocrisy and why its repeated complaints to Congress when it makes government information public should fall on deaf ears,” said the letter.
