House Judiciary Committee Republicans plan to call former FBI official Timothy Thibault in for questioning as part of their forthcoming investigation into alleged “abuse and misconduct” by senior officials at the agency.
Republicans on the committee sent a notice Friday to Thibault, obtained exclusively by Breitbart News, alerting Thibault of their plans after Thibault refused to comply with their“Your testimony is necessary for our oversight [of the Justice Department and FBI], and you can be assured that the Committee will continue to pursue this matter into the 118th Congress, including by compulsory process if necessary,” the Republicans warned in the notice.The notice was sent by Rep.
from the agency in August. He then retained legal counsel and claimed through his attorney he “voluntarily retired” and that he “was not fired, not forced to retire, and not asked to retire.” A senior GOP aide familiar with the matter told Breitbart News in a statement that Thibault has “quickly become Public Enemy No. 1 for Judiciary Committee Republicans.”
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