Top-level FBI agent under fire for role in Hunter Biden investigation resigns

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Top-level FBI agent under fire for role in Hunter Biden investigation resigns
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Thibault came under fire earlier this year from Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley who had accused him of 'improper conduct' in the Hunter Biden investigation, alleging that Thibault had tried to close the probe.

Timothy Thibault, a top-level FBI agent who had been under fire for his role in investigations regarding President Joe Biden's son,, resigned late last week and was walked out of the FBI, two U.S. officials confirmed. But these officials also said that Thibault had reached retirement age, and they added that all of those who retire hand over their badge and gun and are escorted out of the building.

In October 2020, one month before the election,"an avenue of derogatory Hunter Biden reporting was ordered closed" by a senior FBI agent at the bureau's Washington Field office. An earlier letter from Grassley identified the agent as Timothy Thibault.

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