Bongino defends FBI leadership amid series of negative headlines

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino pushed back on a growing wave of criticism targeting him and FBI Director Kash Patel on Monday following the publication of an unofficial report from anonymous FBI personnel criticizing the bureau’s leaders.

“A LOT of people are very upset at the changes and reforms we’ve made at the FBI,” Bongino wrote on X. “They will do anything to revert to the old ways of doing things. So they leak gossipy nonsense to media outlets and ‘journalists’ with a clear agenda, and they ignore the historic results and the significant reforms we instituted. Judge the results. I work for you, not for headlines.”