Former FBI agent Tim Thibault improperly shared investigative information — and a nude photo of his girlfriend — with people outside the bureau via his government email while also allegedly shielding then-first son Hunter Biden from a federal criminal investigation, according to emails obtained by two Republican senators.
Thibault, a former agent in the FBI’s Washington Field Office (WFO), sent multiple messages to his flame Melissa Morgan-Ransome between February and May 2022 that divulged official documents, the names of other bureau employees and even “sensitive” details about an ongoing investigation.
In April of that year, Thibauit also apparently forwarded a naked picture of his purported lover from his FBI email account to both her and a George Washington University email address linked to himself.
Online syllabi from the university dating from 2019 and 2021 show that Thibault was a featured lecturer for “ethical dilemmas and how they are treated between the Congress and the Department of Justice,” as well as “distinctions between unlawful and unethical conduct and their enforcement.”
Some of the emails Thibault traded with his significant other included a disclaimer at the bottom that the documents contained “information about FBI employees and activities that is not available to the public.”
At least one email also disclosed a thread about a federal probe of Lauren Handy, an anti-abortion activist who was sentenced last year to five years in prison for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act before being pardoned last month by President Trump.
At least one email also disclosed a thread about a federal probe of Lauren Handy, an anti-abortion activist who was sentenced last year to five years in prison for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act before being pardoned last month by President Trump.
Thibault fired off most of the emails while he was on the clock for his job as an assistant special agent in charge at WFO.
Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) revealed the unsavory and “inappropriate” missives in a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi, demanding an immediate investigation. “The behavior outlined above illustrates toxic, disturbing, and unprofessional conduct that must have undoubtedly resulted in a very hostile working condition, which has no place in the FBI,” wrote Grassley, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Johnson, who chairs the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
“Thibault’s conduct is an example of exactly the type of behavior that the both of you were confirmed to eliminate,” added the GOP senators, who received the emails and other disclosures about Thibault’s conduct via protected whistleblower disclosures.
Thibault resigned from the FBI in August 2022 after whistleblowers presented Grassley with evidence of Thibault and supervisory intelligence analyst Brian Auten’s alleged involvement in “a scheme” to “undermine derogatory information connected to Hunter Biden by falsely suggesting it was disinformation.”
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