{"id":13669,"date":"2025-12-17T18:48:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T18:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=13669"},"modified":"2025-12-17T18:48:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T18:48:54","slug":"fbi-deputy-director-dan-bongino-to-decide-on-departure-within-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=13669","title":{"rendered":"FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino to decide on departure within weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"beyondwords-wrapper\" class=\"beyondwords-wrapper\"><span class=\"label-bg\">NEW<\/span>You can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Deputy FBI Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/dan-bongino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dan Bongino<\/a> will make a decision about his future at the bureau within the next few weeks, two sources familiar with his considerations tell Fox News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The sources deny recent reports that Bongino&#8217;s office at the FBI is empty, but they say his departure is a possibility in the near future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A source familiar with the situation told Fox News Digital that Bongino has not made any decisions about his future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/bongino-announces-fbi-apprehended-449-child-predators-rescued-224-kids-first-3-months-deputy-director\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>BONGINO ANNOUNCES FBI APPREHENDED 449 CHILD PREDATORS, RESCUED 224 KIDS IN FIRST 3 MONTHS AS DEPUTY DIRECTOR<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"> <\/div>\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\"><span>FBI Director Kash Patel, left, and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino conduct a news conference at the Department of Justice on Dec. 4, 2025.<\/span> <span>(Tom Williams\/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Bongino&#8217;s tenure at the FBI has come under fire in recent weeks, alongside FBI Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/kash-patel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kash Patel<\/a>. Earlier this month, a report from an alliance of active-duty and retired FBI personnel portrayed the bureau as directionless under its new leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Bongino and Patel pushed back on the report, however, defending sweeping reforms they say have delivered major gains in accountability and public safety.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/inside-dan-bonginos-tense-meeting-white-house-officials-over-jeffrey-epstein-fallout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>INSIDE DAN BONGINO&#8217;S TENSE MEETING WITH WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS OVER JEFFREY EPSTEIN FALLOUT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When the director and I moved forward with these reforms, we expected some noise from the small circle of disgruntled former agents still loyal to the old Comey\u2013Wray model,&#8221; Bongino told Fox News at the time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was never our audience. Our responsibility is to the American people. And under the new leadership team, the bureau is delivering results this country hasn&#8217;t seen in decades \u2014 tighter accountability, tougher performance standards, billions saved and a mission-first culture. That&#8217;s how you restore trust.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>New York Post columnist and Fox News contributor Miranda Devine <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/30\/opinion\/damning-report-labels-fbi-rudderless-ship-under-kash-patel-with-he-and-dan-bongino-more-concerned-with-building-personal-resumes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>said last week<\/u><\/a> that an internal 115-page report from FBI active-duty and retired agents and analysts heavily criticized Patel and Bongino since they took on their respective jobs earlier this year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"> <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kash-patel-msnow-security-claims-fox-news.jpg\" alt=\"FBI Director Kash Patel at a DOJ news conference about the January 6 pipe bomber arrest.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><span>FBI Director Kash Patel is facing criticism over his tenure at the bureau.<\/span> <span>(Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Bongino hit back at the report, saying Devine &#8220;loves attacking our reform agenda with gossipy anecdotes from disgruntled former employees because she\u2019s upset that her \u2018reporting\u2019 keeps falling apart under scrutiny.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can always count on Miranda for a timed hit piece when the Director and I make big changes,&#8221; Bongino wrote on X. &#8220;Miranda prefers tbe old-guard. I don\u2019t. Full steam ahead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&amp;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&amp;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Fox News&#8217; Ashley Carnahan contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>Anders Hagstrom is a reporter with Fox News Digital covering national politics and major breaking news events. Send tips to Anders.Hagstrom@Fox.com, or on X: @Hagstrom_Anders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/deputy-fbi-director-dan-bongino-decide-about-future-bureau-coming-weeks-sources-say\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino will make a decision about his future at the bureau within the next few weeks, two sources familiar with his considerations tell Fox News. The sources deny recent reports that Bongino&#8217;s office at the FBI is empty, but they say his departure &#8230; <a title=\"FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino to decide on departure within weeks\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=13669\" aria-label=\"Read more about FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino to decide on departure within weeks\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FBI-Deputy-Director-Dan-Bongino-to-decide-on-departure-within.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13671,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13669\/revisions\/13671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}