FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino to decide on departure within weeks

Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino will decide on his future on the company inside weeks, two sources acquainted with his deliberations instructed Fox Information.

The sources deny current experiences that Bongino’s workplace on the FBI is empty, however they are saying his departure is feasible within the close to future.

A supply acquainted with the scenario instructed Fox Information Digital that Bongino has not but made any selections about his future.

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FBI Director Kash Patel, left, and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino maintain a press convention on the Justice Division on December 4, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc through Getty Pictures)

Bongino’s tenure on the FBI has come beneath hearth in current weeks, together with FBI Director Kash Patel. Earlier this month, a blistering report from an alliance of active-duty and retired FBI personnel portrayed the bureau as directionless beneath its new management.

Bongino and Patel, nonetheless, pushed again on the report and defended sweeping reforms that they are saying have made main good points in accountability and public security.

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“When the director and I applied these reforms, we anticipated some pushback from the small circle of disgruntled former brokers who had been nonetheless loyal to the outdated Comey-Wray mannequin,” Bongino instructed Fox Information on the time.

‘That was by no means our viewers. Our duty is to the American individuals. And beneath the brand new management crew, the company is delivering outcomes this nation hasn’t seen in many years: stronger accountability, increased efficiency requirements, billions in financial savings and a mission-first tradition. That is the way you restore belief.’

New York Publish columnist and Fox Information contributor Miranda Devine said last week {that a} 115-page inner report by lively and retired FBI brokers and analysts closely criticized Patel and Bongino since they took their respective jobs earlier this 12 months.

FBI Director Kash Patel is dealing with criticism for his tenure on the bureau. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Pictures)

The alliance criticized Patel as being “in over his head” and Bongino as “one thing of a clown,” in line with The New York Publish.

The outlet mentioned the 115-page report was written within the fashion of an FBI intelligence product and analyzed experiences from 24 FBI sources and sub-sources that described their experiences inside the company.

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Devine mentioned Patel was described as inexperienced by a number of inner sources, with one supply saying he “has neither the breadth of expertise nor the perspective an FBI director must be profitable.”

Patel instructed Fox Information Digital that the FBI is “working precisely because the nation expects.”

Fox Information’ Ashley Carnahan contributed to this report.