Posting on X about what the Federal Bureau of Investigation is up to, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino announced that the bureau would be taking on matters of “public corruption” in the D.C. Swamp, an announcement that was major news for those wanting to see the corrupt bureaucrats and lawmakers held accountable.
As background, Bongino has been posting announcements regarding what the FBI is up to on his X account as a way of pushing back on accusations that he is taking his foot off the pedal of exposing corruption and other forms of lawbreaking from public officials now that he is involved in the bureaucracy rather than just being a podcaster.
While the effort has had mixed results, particularly given his backing down on the Epstein issue, Bongino has kept it up, leading to his recent update in which he explained how he and Kash Patel are working to reform the FBI and direct it against those who need to be investigated by it.
Beginning the post, he commented on the matter of internal reform, saying, “The Director and I will have most of our incoming reform teams in place by next week. The hiring process can take a little bit of time, but we are approaching that finish line. This will help us both in doubling down on our reform agenda.”
Getting ot the matter of corruption, Bongingo began by saying, “Shortly after swearing in, the Director and I evaluated a number of cases of potential public corruption that, understandably, have garnered public interest. We made the decision to either re-open, or push additional resources and investigative attention, to these cases.”
Continuing on that same note, he gave some examples of the sort of public corruption he and the FBI will be looking into, saying, “These cases are the DC pipe bombing investigation, the cocaine discovery at the prior administration’s White House, and the leak of the Supreme Court Dobbs case.”
Concluding that point, he noted that he is getting directly involved in the investigations of those corruption matters, writing, “I receive requested briefings on these cases weekly and we are making progress. If you have any investigative tips on these matters that may assist us then please contact the FBI.”
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Then, in his final point, Bongino said he and Kash Patel are not appearing for many media interviews so that they can focus on their job of reforming the FBI and directing it against wrongdoers, saying, “The Director and I have done only one media interview together. We decided early on to limit our media footprint overall in order to keep the attention on the work being done.”
Concluding that point, he said, “There are both positives and negatives to this approach. We have chosen to communicate, in writing, on this platform to fill some of the inevitable information vacuums. I try to read as much of your feedback as possible but the workday is busy, and my office is a SCIF with limited phone access. In response to feedback, both positive and negative, from our interview last week we will be releasing more information which will further clarify answers to some of the questions asked in the interview.”
Watch Bongino comment on what DOGE has discovered here: