WASHINGTON — 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, despite
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.
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.”
Then-bureau Director Christopher Wray told senators in a hearing that month that the accusations of interference in the federal probe of the first son — as well as social media posts by Thibault disparaging Republicans — were “deeply troubling.”
The Republican senators’ letter also called out the G-man’s “cavalier behavior” in tweets from his Twitter account where he responded to President Trump and a Catholic priest critical of abortions: “Focus on the pedophiles.”
Thibault had served as the bureau’s “point man” for handling evidence submitted by Tony Bobulinski, a business associate of Hunter Biden who had worked with both the future first son and future first brother James Biden on a venture with a Chinese energy conglomerate in May 2017 worth more than $5 million.
Joe Biden, who at the time had just left the vice presidency, was penciled in as the “big guy” due a 10% stake in the joint US-China venture, according to emails on Hunter’s abandoned laptop.
Some texts furnished by Bobulinski to The Post and later federal investigators also showed the business associates involved downplaying the future president’s involvement.
The Post has reached out to Thibault for comment.
Grassley and Johnson have asked the FBI to probe whether Thibault’s actions “could be construed as creating a hostile work environment and sexual harassment,” identify any “associates” involved and release records of all communications between himself and “Missy Morgan,” whose past social media presence indicates that she was at one time a Florida fitness instructor.
“The FBI repeatedly lectures Congress, without any legitimate basis, that it can’t share information with Congress because the matter is an ongoing investigation,” they noted.
“Yet, here, Thibault sent all of that type of information to a private citizen while the FBI stiff-arms Congress and the American people.”
The FBI declined to comment. Reps for the DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
