New York Times Justice Department Reporter Glenn Thrush joins Nicolle Wallace to discuss the purge happening at the national top law enforcement agency, the FBI, which has seen the forced resignation of the top agent in New York James Dennehy,
In a memo on Sunday evening, the FBI Agents Association told its 14,000 members that new director Kash Patel had assured them that he would follow tradition and name a career special agent with operational expertise as his deputy director.
FBI Director Kash Patel floated the idea, inspired by his new Deputy Director Dan Bongino, which would see FBI agents train in martial arts and self-defense.
People are calling in to right-wing radio shows to voice frustrations with the Trump administration. Dan Bongino’s appointment to the FBI is proof that Donald Trump wants politicized law enforcement.
Dan Bongino is in a place to turn wild notions from the right-wing internet into pretexts for federal investigations.
Before becoming the second-in-command at the FBI, Dan Bongino used his popular podcast to spread conspiracy theories about the Jan. 6 attack. Here's what else he said.
President Donald Trump announced the 50-year-old had been chosen to serve under the new FBI Director, Kash Patel, making Bongino the latest in a string of outsiders who have been appointed to be part of Trump’s inner circle.
FBI Deputy Director Bongino repeatedly said pipe bombs planted ahead of Jan. 6 were ‘inside job’
Dan Bongino, the incoming deputy director of the FBI, suggested last month on his popular podcast that the agency he is now about to help lead was complicit in planting pipe bombs around Washington ahead of the Capitol riot on January 6,
His podcast, The Dan Bongino Show, is the 56th most popular podcast on Spotify and has welcomed Trump as a repeat guest. He will join the newly-appointed bureau director Kash Patel, the latest in a series of loyalist picks that have attracted backlash.
The far-right podcaster has condemned the FBI as “irredeemably corrupt." No wonder so many former and current agents are upset about Dan Bongino's ascension.
Dan Bongino is a former New York City police officer and Secret Service agent. Photo: will oliver/Shutterstock. WASHINGTON—Late Sunday, a group representing thousands of FBI age
The selection of former Secret Service agent and right-wing media commentator Dan Bongino as deputy to FBI Director Kash Patel places two staunch Trump allies atop the nation's premier federal law enforcement agency.