President Donald Trump announced on Sunday the selection of the conservative commentator and former presenter of Fox News, Dan Bongino, to serve as a deputy director of the FBI, occupying a position that generally has a career FBI agent with an influential personality of the media that he has I order massive shots in the office.
Bongino will direct the office with Kash Patel, who was confirmed by the director of the FBI by the Senate last week.
“Dan Bongino, a man of incredible love and passion for our country, has just been appointed the next deputy director of the FBI, by the man who will be the best director, Kash Patel,” Trump said in a publication on social networks. “Working with our great new Attorney General of the United States, Pam Bondi, and director Patel, Equity, Justice, Law and Order will return to the United States and quickly.”
The position It does not require confirmation of the Senate.
Bongino is a former NYPD Secret and Officer Service agent who set up several failed offers for Congress before turning his focus on media comments with the launch of his own website in 2019, Podcast and Radio Show, filling a space once maintained by Rush Limbaugh.
Bongino has never served in the FBI, breaking a long -standing tradition of the role of deputy director occupied by a professional office agent.
In his role as leading podcaster pro-trump, Bongino has advanced the theories without foundation on the FBI, including a claim earlier this year that the office lied when he announced that he had not yet identified a suspect in the placement of bombs of Pipes outside the Republican National Committee and National Democratic Committee one day before the disturbance of the Capitol of January 6.
In January, the FBI launched a new video of an individual who places one of the bombs near the DNC as part of the renewed effort of the office to locate a suspect.
“If the video has been in the FBI evidence locker for four years, it is almost as if someone in the FBI knew the identity of this bomber and that Trump will discover,” Bongino said in an episode of recent podcast. He called the office inability to provide a name or other identification information for the suspect “the greatest scandal of our time.”
Bongino was one of the Trump’s loyal to the then president of the trainers.
“All those involved in this abomination of the DOJ/FBI, from management to the agents, must immediately end when the tyrants are expelled from the office,” Bongino said in a publication on social networks at that time.
Bongino will be one of the almost two dozen of former Fox News personnel in the Trump administration, a list that includes the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy and the National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard. Trump worked in a similar way to his first administration with several of the network employees.
Two current FBI officials concerned with Bongino’s team pointed to NBC News that the FBI deputy director generally directs office operations and supervises special agents leading their 55 field offices throughout the country.
Before Trump’s post announcing the appointment of Bongino, NBC News obtained a memorandum of the FBI agents association that seemed to suggest that the conservative Podcast was not qualified for his new position. Without appointing any specific person, the memorandum pressed for a deputy director who was part of the office.
“The deputy director of the FBI should continue to be an active special agent already board, as has been the case for 117 years for many convincing reasons, including experience and operational experience, as well as the confidence of our population of special agents”, El ” Declaration read in part.
The former officials of the Department of Justice, including Attorney General William Barr, who served in the first Trump administration, also expressed concern about the lack of patel experience in the office.
Patel and Bongino leadership of the FBI will come in a moment of significant billing. The head of the Washington Field Office, who supervised the extensive investigation of January 6, was forced, as well as six of the highest FBI executives and multiple chiefs of FBI field offices throughout the country.
Democrats have accused Patel of orchestrate in secret the layoffs of public career officials in the office. In a publication on social networks after the statement, detailed in a letter from Senator Dick Durbin, D-Billinois, to the inspector general of the Department of Justice-Erika Knight, Patel spokesman, did not directly approach Durbin’s letter, but denounced what he described. as a “false narrative.”
“Kash Patel is a highly qualified national security expert who has been completely transparent with the American people throughout this process and has demonstrated the necessary integrity and leadership for this role,” he wrote. “The Senate should confirm it without delay.”
Trump said this month that he plans to “fire an FBI staff who worked in the riot cases of the Capitol in the midst of massive dismissals in the office as part of the efforts of the efficiency department of Elon Musk’s government to drastically reduce the size of the Federal Work Force.
