As Deputy Director Dan Bongino headed back to the private sector after spending most of 2025 with the FBI, Director Kash Patel had this to say:
“Dan heads back to the private sector after helping orchestrate a record year for the FBI
-Historic 20% drop in nationwide murder rate
-100% increase in arrests year to year
-1,800 gangs and criminal enterprises disrupted (210% increase)
-2,000+ kilos of Fentanyl seized (up 31%) enough to kill 130 million Americans
-Nihilistic Violent Extremism arrests up 490%
-Over 6,000 child victims located (up 22%)
-Espionage arrests up 35%
-Multiple successful surges including Summer Heat which had almost 9,000 arrests in just three months
This FBI is saving lives, protecting innocent kids, and taking deadly drugs off our streets at levels not seen in decades. None of it would’ve been possible without Dan’s leadership and support. And he paved the way for even better things to come. Thank you Dan Bongino.”
Clever Journeys 
Anyone ever ask Dan why he left ? 🙂 Most don’t have a clue.
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Couldn’t reach him.
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Finding out why Dan left might require listening to Dan’s show (on Rumble daily) a little more faithfully than I do.
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I wondered if it had to do with what he witnessed in the organization. Not the FBI as a whole. The emotional stress of what he witnessed, dealt with, possible death threats. How much cover up there really was under the last administration. Being confronted with evil day in and day out. What lengths corruption really takes place who’s involved and what lengths people and organizations will do etc.
From a personal note before I retired. I worked in a prison that had the worst population of sex offenders of all kinds. Hollywood could never really make a movie on what I witnessed, saw and heard of how corrosive administration heads are capable of being towards staff using criminals. I was only 22 years old when I started. Most staff had more senority than my age. I had to learn to develop emotions of steel and a reaction of stone. Witnessed hostage taking and being a negotiator for 8 hours, my life threatened endlessly by vicious individuals. etc.
So maybe Dan was there for a limited time with Kash. Did what needed to be done then moved on before emotional took over of what he witnessed and worked with. I give Kash more credit he has endured so much as well and continues to motor on. Learning to keep work and private life separate is hard and it requires a skill not to overlap both.
Any which way you look at it. Kudos to the whole administration. May God grant them peace and strength each and every day.
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