Two GOP senators call for probe into possible leaks and violations of FBI info sharing policies

Two Republican Judiciary Committee senators on Tuesday asked FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate whether U.S. officials leaked sensitive and classified information to the media ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

Senate Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Ron Johnson and Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley asked the pair to investigate the potential leaks after a Washington Post article in September referred to a Justice Department investigation into President Donald Trump that was closed due to a lack of evidence. 

The report was written based on interviews with "people familiar with the case as well as documents and contemporaneous notes of the investigation." The article was also written after the outlet “reviewed thousands of pages of government records, including sealed court findings and exhibits," and the reporting also referred to “classified U.S. intelligence."

"[This indicates] that Biden/Harris Justice Department and FBI officials may have leaked classified information to the media roughly 90 days before the last presidential election," the senators wrote.

The senators also asked the pair to investigate whether former FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault breached the FBI information sharing policies, after he allegedly shared sensitive, non-public investigative information from his FBI email with a romantic partner. 

“The FBI repeatedly lectures Congress, without any legitimate basis, that it can’t share information with Congress because the matter is an ongoing investigation," the senators wrote. "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," they continued. “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."

The senators concluded the 47-page letter by asking Patel and Bondi to preserve all records related to former Special Counsel Jack Smith's criminal investigations into Trump. 

"The improper conduct of the past cannot be repeated in this matter, therefore, all records must be preserved so that Congress can perform an objective and independent review," the senators wrote. "Thank you for your prompt review and response."

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