FBI official may have violated Hatch Act with anti-Trump posts: DOJ watchdog

Posted on AllSides June 17th, 2022
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The Justice Department’s watchdog said an FBI official handling sensitive criminal cases in the nation’s capital may have violated the law due to his partisan social media posts, many of which criticized then-President Donald Trump and then-Attorney General William Barr.

DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz revealed that Timothy Thibault, the FBI assistant special agent in charge at the Washington Field Office, may have broken the Hatch Act, an inconsistently enforced 1939 law that precludes most executive branch federal employees from engaging in electioneering and political activity.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) demanded in...

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