FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino published an unusual and highly personal statement on social media late Friday, pledging a sweeping internal effort to root out public corruption and vowing that the Bureau would conduct its investigations “by the book and in accordance with the law.”
In a lengthy post to his X account, Bongino said recent developments uncovered by ongoing investigations had “shocked [him] down to [his] core,” and that the truth would be pursued with “an honest and dignified effort.”
“We cannot run a Republic like this. I’ll never be the same after learning what I’ve learned,” he wrote from his official government account.
Though the statement did not identify specific subjects of investigation, the cryptic language sparked widespread speculation on about what the FBI’s second-in-command was referring to. He wrote the note in response to a news article in Just the News that said a 2016 intelligence report, conducted by the Democrat administration of Barack Obama, said Kremlin preferred GOP over Dems, while the truth is quite different.
“The Obama-era ICA claimed the Kremlin has a history of preferring Republicans over Democrats, but decades of Moscow history contradicts the narrative that was pushed — and believed as gospel by the legacy media and public,” Just the News reported in this article.
Bongino, a former US Secret Service agent and conservative media personality, was appointed deputy director of the FBI in March by FBI Director Kash Patel, another high-profile Trump administration figure. The two were brought on after President Donald Trump’s re-election, reflecting a dramatic shift in leadership at the nation’s top law enforcement agency.
Since taking office, Bongino has distanced himself from his previous career in media, where he was known for sharp criticism of the FBI, the Department of Justice, and what he described as a “deep state” culture of political bias.
But his statement on Friday marked the first time he has spoken publicly in such stark, emotional terms about internal FBI discoveries since joining the agency’s leadership.
“We are going to get the answers WE ALL DESERVE,” he wrote. “Not ‘my truth,’ or ‘your truth,’ but THE TRUTH.”
Bongino’s post comes amid continued scrutiny of the FBI’s role in politically sensitive investigations, including its past surveillance of the Trump campaign, raiding of his home at Mar-a-Lago, its mishandling of the Hunter Biden laptop case, and more recently, its review of materials tied to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. Director Patel and Bongino have previously signaled a desire to restore trust in the Bureau by rooting out what they see as internal partisanship and abuse of power.
In an interview earlier this year, Bongino said he would work to “rebuild the FBI from the inside out,” promising transparency and accountability without political favor.
Who is to say what Mr. Bongino is referring to…. What concerns me the most are the number of individuals and their many acts that seem to display FBI, intelligence community, and other federal employees acting in their own self interest at the expense of the public interest. Careerism is a very serious disease, as is the approach taken by many to decide – by and for themselves – who is “good” and who is “bad”. The idea of public service looks to be foreign to so many inside and within ten miles of the DC Beltway. I hope the new leadership cleans things up. Fewer people from the Northeast would be a good place to start.
Read the Durham Investigation Report that Atty General Bill Barr commissioned for President Donald Trump. This is a nothing burger, and another attempted distraction from Trump’s 15 year BFF, Jeffery Epstein
I dunno.
“Me thinks thou dost protest to much”.
Go back and look at what he used to say about Epstein – with all his “intelligence” connections.
Like Bongino a lot – but there is a credibility gap there, now.
Yet the communist news networks report virtually nothing. Nothing to see here folks…..
Burn the FBI to the ground.
Arrest James Comey at 4 am in his personal residence, slap the cuffs on him, tear up his house, charge him, prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law, put him in prison. Do to him what he did to so many innocent people. He’s a dirty cop to the core.
Well, I just hope that when you land ‘where the wild things are’ in DC, that it’s fact possible to tame them, and not have to become a monster yourself to survive!
The TRUTH will set us FREE.
Too bad it’s not a clean, honest organization like it was back when J Edgar ran things.
Distraction. It is all this is. Anything they can do to run from sharing what they vowed to share all along. The documents released by Bondi make no case what so ever in reference to Obama and treason. Bongino is just toeing the line as one of Trump’s loyal servants. Finally even some conservatives are seeing the light, from media to representatives. In the end nothing will change though. It will all be forgotten and lost in American’s tiny attention spans.
You may be surprised shortly Matt.
The fish rots from the head down.
We need an anti corruption bureau, as Ukraine needs it for the rampant corruption, abuse of power and manipulating the governance of a country itself.
The FBI screens employees to exclude honest, Constitution respect, and prioritizes corruptible individuals.
It is a shame we are here.