“There are no right-wing facts or left-wing facts. There are facts.”
That is author Peter Schweizer’s retort to the statement of former FBI agent Tim Thibault, who told a congressional committee that his main contribution to the FBI’s probe of Hunter Biden was to “shut down the use of a confidential source whom he discovered was actually a right-wing author whose information he feared would taint the legitimacy of the investigation.”
Thibault, who resigned from his post after facing intense scrutiny over allegations he helped shield Hunter Biden from criminal investigations, didn’t name Schweizer in his testimony but did to the New York Times back in May.
The background, as Schweizer and co-host Eric Eggers discuss on the most recent episode of The Drill Down, is that Peter’s organization, a nonprofit group called the Government Accountability Institute (GAI), was called by the public corruption unit of the FBI for information that GAI had gathered on Hunter Biden’s business dealings that Schweizer published in his books Secret Empires and Profiles in Corruption.