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FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino says he plans to resign next month as bureau’s No 2 official
Dan Bongino plans to leave his role as FBI deputy director after a contentious year marked by clashes over Epstein files and a return to his media career, sources say.
- Dan Bongino, Deputy FBI Director, has quietly told confidants he will not return to FBI headquarters this month and tentatively plans to announce his resignation on Dec. 19.
- Backlash over conspiracy claims about Jeffrey Epstein and Jan. 6 has intensified after Dan Bongino, Deputy FBI Director, spread these theories and clashed with Attorney General Pam Bondi.
- Appointed without prior FBI experience, Dan Bongino, Deputy FBI Director, had been a Secret Service agent and received a security-clearance waiver from Kash Patel, FBI Director, allowing access to highly classified briefings.
- President Donald Trump publicly confirmed Dan Bongino, Deputy FBI Director's exit Wednesday, saying `I think he wants to go back to his show,` while Andrew Bailey, Missouri Attorney General, shares some duties.
- Agents are `counting down the days`, one law enforcement source told MS NOW, as a coalition report found the bureau directionless under Patel and Bongino.
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Dan Bongino decided not to continue serving as deputy director of the FBI and, in advance, announced that he will leave the agency next month
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FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino announced Dec. 17 that he will leave the bureau in January, ending a turbulent tenure of less than a year as the FBI’s second-in-command. His exit follows reports of internal friction with Attorney General Pam Bondi over how the Justice Department handled the Jeffrey Epstein investigative files. MS NOW reported that Bongino had been telling associates he planned to leave early next year and had begun clearing out …
In the US, Deputy FBI Director Bongino announced his resignation.
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