agent, Timothy R. Thibault reeled in big names while investigating public corruption, sending two Democratic congressmen to prison and overseeing sensitive inquiries into the Clinton Foundation and the former governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe, another Democrat.
In their casting, Mr. Thibault, who retired last year, is the face of bias and misconduct at the bureau.
Powerful Republican lawmakers, including Representative Jim Jordan and Senator Charles R. Grassley, demanded that Mr. Thibault testify before their committees.
official, Mr. Jordan’s panel in a news release last year denounced Mr. Thibault as “public enemy No.
1.”But his story is more complicated than Republicans have made it out to be.