FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault, who has been described by multiple whistleblowers as allowing bias to manifest in certain investigations, has resigned from the FBI. Reports hold that Thibault was escorted from his office on Friday; however, this is considered a standard practice, according to sources familiar with the report.

Thibault’s name was first brought to national attention by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), who wrote a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray at the end of July based upon numerous whistleblower reports made to Grassley’s office. Subsequently, multiple whistleblowers have also approached Senator Ron Johnson’s office regarding separate bias allegations at the Bureau.

Grassley sent a copy of his correspondence to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland as well. In the letter, Grassley named not only Thibault, but other “high-ranking officials” in the Bureau as showing bias in the way they handled investigations. The whistleblowers alleged that both the Justice Department and the FBI must “follow strict substantial factual predication guidelines” when opening an investigation. The whistleblowers contend that individuals, including Thibault, have not followed these protocols.

Grassley’s missive read: “As you are aware, Assistant Special Agent in Charge Tim Thibault is not the only politically biased FBI agent at the Washington field office. . . the FBI answers to Congress and the American people.”

While Thibault was named as one of the “high-ranking officals” at the Bureau who acted with political bias, he is not associated with the current investigation into President Donald Trump’s handling of documents at Mar-a-Lago. He was, however, associated with the investigation into the Hunter Biden laptop.

The Washington Times reports that Thibault was “allegedly forced out” after being accused of political bias. Thibault had been on leave for the past month. Sources told The New York Post that the leave took place shortly after Grassley’s letter to the head of the FBI and AG Garland.

Earlier this month, FBI Director Christopher Wray appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where Grassley asked him pointed questions regarding the whistleblowers’ accusations. Wray admitted during these hearings that the allegations were “deeply troubling.”

In the last week, huge revelations have been made public. Mark Zuckerberg told podcast host Joe Rogan that some of his employees at Facebook/Meta had been approached by the FBI regarding Russian disinformation prior to the 2020 election. While the Bureau did not explicitly tell Facebook to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story, they did warn that “Russian propaganda” was likely to “drop” soon and to be on the lookout for misinformation. Within days, The New York Post published a story about the First Son’s laptop, and Facebook situated the algorithm so that the story remained at the bottom of the newsfeed.

The Hunter Biden laptop story was chiefly described by mainstream media outlets as misinformation as well. However, earlier this year, The New York Times ran a story saying that the laptop had indeed been verified. Since then, Hunter Biden has been the subject of multiple investigations based on information contained in the laptop.

Grassley’s letter in late July said that whistleblowers had told his office “Thibault and FBI supervisory intelligence analyst Brian Auten were allegedly involved in a scheme to undermine derogatory information connected to Hunter Biden by falsely suggesting it was disinformation.” Thibault’s name was not mentioned by Zuckerberg as one who had spoken with Meta staff.

Grassley also mentioned in his letter that whistleblowers allege Thibault “tried to kill off a valid avenue of investigation of possible Hunter Biden criminality until at least one month” before the 2020 general elections. The whistleblowers told Grassley that Thibault ordered the investigation closed “without providing a valid reason” as FBI protocol requires, and then allegedly attempted to classify the case in such a way that it couldn’t later be re-opened.

Thibault came under scrutiny by some Republicans for his social media posts. For example, Thibault retweeted a Lincoln Project tweet that described Trump as “psychologically broken, embittered and deeply unhappy man.”

No official reason for Thibault’s resignation has been made public, although sources say that Thibault retired from his post. A recent poll shows that only 15 percent of the public would have voted for Biden regardless of the laptop story; however, at least 66 percent say the story was “very important” and likely would have changed their 2020 presidential vote.