To listen to Dan Bongino to describe it, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is “the only most corrupt law enforcement institution” in America and a “full left political action committee” dedicated to the coverage of democratic crimes and keeping the truth by the American people.
“It is time for an absolute housewife,” he said in 2023.
Now Mr. Bongino-Ball right-wing expert Podcaster and President Trump’s voice ally-has been intercepted to serve as the new deputy director of the agency. Podcast -ii and the show on the radio will complete production on March 14.
Work, which does not require Senate confirmation, is traditionally filled by a high agent with extensive operational experience and a deep understanding of how the various Bureau divisions work. The last two deputy directors together had more than 35 years of experience before taking on the role. Mr. Bongino served as a police officer and A US Secret Service agent years ago but no experience with FBI
Mr Bongino’s accurate plans for the agency remain dark, but in recent podcasts he said he will save the politicization agency and concentration in crimes such as drug treatment – despite the broad office of the office to protect national security, investigate crimes and destroy corruption from public officials at all levels.
Received together, the years of Mr. Bongino’s comments in his show on Radio and Podcast have painted a vision of “dramatic change” in FBI, as he said last week. These ideas mainly match the criticisms presented by his friend Kash Patel, who was recently confirmed as the agency director. However, some of their ideas will probably require additional funds.
The FBI refused to comment, but recently rejected allegations of “corruption” flattened by a republican cabinet secretary, saying such claims are not “supported by any evidence” and “undermine FBI men and women”
Responding during his show on Radio Wednesday to questions sent by the New York Times, Mr. Bongino said: “No my duty to produce political opinions.” He added: “Your political thoughts are not a prerequisite for such work, obviously. My law enforcement experience was. “
Here’s what Mr. Bongino in the past for his vision for FBI
Fire ‘all’
Mr. Bongino is often focused on FBI officials, who, in his mind, told Mr. Trump following investigations against him or his supporters.
“How to fix this? We ignite all those who stood by, “he said in June 2023 after Mr Trump was charged with charges of misuse.” We do not fire the people who did so. All those who stayed close and did nothing while the Department of Justice and the FBI were destroyed, destroyed by corrupt crowds. Everyone is fired. “
Mr. Trump’s Republicans and allies have tried to minimize the charges against Mr. Trump claiming that some FBI investigations were just more than a “witch hunt” against him.
Indictment on maltreatment documents focused on preserving Mr. Trump’s classified documents in numerous rooms in Mar-a-Lago, including a shower. The investigation was initiated by the FBI in 2022, but was eventually taken by an independent special adviser. The allegations were rejected after Mr. Trump’s re -election because the Department of Justice policy stops to show and prosecute a sedentary president.
Restructure the FBI
In past shows, Mr. Bongino approved Mr. Patel’s suggestions that the FBI was swollen and that its agents in Washington had to be distributed across the country to fight crime.
“Corruption should be slandered immediately,” he said during a June 2023 show. “FBI should no longer exist as it is now. The mission must be allocated. Money must be divided among other agencies that are seriously sworn in their place.”
Mr. Patel has already begun to do well in some of those promises. He announced in February planning to move about 1,500 agents and others from the Washington region to field offices and other facilities across the country.
Exposure FBI’s ‘covers’
Mr. Bongino has claimed that the FBI knows the truth about the various mysteries that have animated right -wing influenza for years.
Among them is the mystery that surrounds two Tubi bombs that had been planted outside the headquarters of the two political parties in Washington the day before Mr. Trump’s rally on January 6, 2021. Bombs never explode, and remains a mystery that planted them, though the FBI released new details about the case in January, including the new supervision video.
Mr. Bongino has said that the FBI tried to cover the crime in what he called the “biggest scandal in the history of FBI”. Mentioning no evidence, he said that FBI officials know the identity of the bomber and that they are keeping it secret to protect the Democrats or the government’s underwear. Former FBI officials who worked the case said it was false.
He said future FBI leaders should “reach history on day 1 and restore faith”.
“Absolutely absolutely clear to me that this was an internal job,” he told the bombs during a November broadcast. “I do not necessarily mean within the government. It can be. But there is a doubt zero in my mind that this was not a magical person who planted that bomb. This was a crazy anti-trump, and the FBI knows who it is and they won’t tell you. “
Complete ‘politicized’ investigations …
Mr. Bongino has said that Trump’s supporters were unjustly targeted by the FBI when he investigated the crimes committed on January 6.
“We are not investigating bad people because we are losing the time of the FBI, HSI and wanting to investigate who? Maga and Christian nationalists,” he said in November 2023, referring to homeland security investigations.
It really happened: FBI investigated people based on evidence that they had committed crimes such as entering the US Capitol illegally, attacking police officers or being involved in seductive plot. During the sentences of a small number of defendants, federal prosecutors demanded what is known as an improvement in terrorism.
Christopher A. Wray, who withdrew as FBI director before Mr. Trump took office, described the attack, in which supporters of Mr. Trump destroyed Capitol, resulting in five deaths and a number of injuries to police officers as family terrorism. Mr. Wray was confirmed during Mr. Trump’s first administration.
At the same time, Mr. Bongino has suggested that the FBI focus on other violent offenses such as drug treatment, although the FBI is responsible for investigating any violations of federal law.
“I actually think the intelligence function should be completely removed from the FBI,” Mr. Bongino in November last year. “They have to return to the bank robbery investigation, kidnapping, serious items.”
The FBI has not abandoned those pursuits. Recent agency reports include arrests about an attack by the Islamic State, a series of ATM robberies in New York and money laundering in St. Louis.
… And potentially start investigations against the Democrats.
Mr. Bongino has claimed for years that progressive leaders, including former President Joseph R. Biden Jr., have committed crimes, and have said that leaders in the FBI should be investigated.
“When Patel comes there, I think many of these people involved should be investigated,” he said in January about his belief that the FBI played a role in the Capitol uprising on January 6, 2021. “If there were crimes committed, prosecuted.”
In a report last year, the Department of Justice was found “No Proof” that the FBI had a secret employed in various crowds of protest, or in Capitol, on January 6. “
Mr. Bongino has echoed Republican claims that the FBI and the Department of Justice were armed against the conservatives and wants to turn those agencies to the left-wing Americans-even though the Bureau has a long history of the Democrats investigation. In a performance that was broadcast in January, Mr. Bongino suggested that they use the government to go behind Breakers in a title response to what he claimed that the Democrats had done.
“They armed the government to go after Trump for the allegations they fabricated,” he said. “We will use the government to go after people we believe they legally violated the law.”
Mr. Bongino seemed to accept concerns that he would politicize FBI, responding to his podcast that doing so was the last thing in his mind.
“We’re there for an opposite reason,” he said. “To make sure that none of them happen.”