FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino sat down for a lengthy interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo.
Director Patel begins the interview noting how he and Deputy Bongino have spent the majority of the week attending ceremonies for law enforcement and visiting families and colleagues of fallen FBI heroes. Director Patel then begins to discuss reforming the FBI and his plan to correct all of the political corruption that has permeated his organization.
Patel notes the previous FBI Director and Deputy Director intentionally lied to the American people about their roles in the weaponization of the agency. Bartiromo plays her role in saying the duo are not going to do anything. Patel counters with his intention to keep delivering the documentary evidence that highlights how FBI leadership played a key role in the weaponization of government. Patel says, “you’re about to see a wave of transparency, just give us about a week or two.”
Deputy Dan Bongino says, “do you want it done right, or do you want it done correctly.” Additionally noting, “everything is a priority.” When referencing the possibility of an interconnected conspiracy within the prior threats and attempted assassination of President Trump, Bongino notes “there is no there, there.” It is a long and wide-ranging discussion. WATCH:
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We all want Kash Patel and Dan Bongino to succeed. Things do take time, but the unwillingness of Patel and Bongino to call out the corrupt lower-level FBI activity that takes in DC and in various field offices is not confidence inspiring.
Bongino and Patel are passionate speakers about their jobs and objectives.
Director Kash Patel notes repeatedly throughout the interview that his team (the FBI Silo) is now sending documents to congress, presumably the Judiciary Committee (silo), the SSCI (silo) and the HPSCI (silo), as each of the silos continues their investigative work around government weaponization.
My simple question is, “why”?
Why send exclusive silo documents to other exclusive silos for further review? …. Because that’s the rules? …. Because that’s the process established by the same DC silo administrators who consider themselves as acceptable filters through which the material must be controlled, put into silo-affirming context, and released in a process that protects the interests of the DC silo creators? Is that the why?
Where in this equation are ‘we the people‘?
Does the executive need to engage the legislative just because the system is designed to enmesh all their collective interests?
Why not release the information publicly, with a notation, “this was sent to the (fill_in_blank)?”
Oh, wait, “ongoing investigations,” gotcha.
“Do you want it done right, or do you want it done correctly?” Where “correctly” are the DC rules.
You decide.
Dang. Bongino used to be believable.
wander ..who talk to them before they took job…..
I only really watched him a few times, mostly after DJT attempted assassinations because I really felt his POV would be credible…and it seemed it…he seems so intense on finding out what happened and actually incensed that it happened in the first place…seeing his casual response to Maria’s question about the assassination attempts made me realize how unserious he really is..
Now we know why Matt Gaetz was forced out. Had he been confirmed as AG, arrests would have been made on Day 2, and every day for the past 100+ days.
I think you are right.
We have a couple weenies just trying to go along to get along.
it really is one big show
@poca-C’mon?…….
Abusers within offending agencies will have destroyed all documentation or made sure it was never created. Nobody is going to implicate themselves. There might be a few people who will provide information but it will be circumstantial and any documentation that exists won’t be substantive. If this is true, I believe it’s true, how do you think Patel or Bongino conduct themselves? Leo’s are supposed to be executing their jobs with HONOR. 5am raids with no evidence to support the raid isn’t an honorable act even if it is done to Comey or McCabe or Obama or the Clintons or whoever. It’s abuse!!!!!!!!
I understand where you are coming from. We, you/me and citizens of this country need to satiate our need for accountability. We need it!!!!!!!!!!!
I pray something will pop up that leads to an honorable arrest. It has to be HONORABLE.
then why dont patel and banjo tell us there is no documentation ….
We’re busy, real busy being on Tv.
Just trying to keep up with their DOJ boss in number of appearances.
Show me something,,, anything,,, whatever,,no further comment
That is what the MAGA people want: Just do something no matter how small it may be so we know you are working. But all we get is BS and more BS.
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Men full of compassion
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Men who’ll face eternity
And aren’t afraid to die
Men who’ll fight for freedom
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He just needs a few good men
Men full of compassion
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Wish we had 100+ more of them!
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big talkers but when the rubber hit the road….they swayed like a tornado hit them
bot insisting they have seen the evidence and Epstein killed himself….
Seeing the evidence would be seeing him do it on camera.
Wonder if Pastel saw the conflicting coroners ? What evidence did Pastel rely on.?…what reports?…Barr.?…Jail attendees? Reports about cameras being out? The explanation of why he didn’t have cell mate? Are Patel Bongino that naive?.
You know in the movie Shawshank….When parole comes up in the inmates conversation, it was explained that you can become institutionalized … not be able to deal with the outside world…Well I think Patel and Banjo maybe institutionalized.
Wow – good observation.
The elderly prisoner, when finally paroled,
Could not deal with the outside world.
But that took decades.
Here, we have
Institutional Capture – in record time!!!
Geez. I can believe that Dr. Baden and Dr. Cyril Wecht already said that He did not hang himself. Are you kidding me.
Have they been threatened!!
Cyril Wecht was a man whose integrity matched his brillance. May he rest in peace.
They are asking you to deny logic and rational thinking the woke script….
They both actually said that? Unbelievable.
I’m pretty sure they know what’s going on. Dan knows the insides and Kash knows what they did on crossfire hurricane.
Can’t expect them to blurt it out on national television that they blame their underlings for criminal activity
That would be against the rules.
Against the SILO rules.
Can’t have that.
“Well that just wouldn’t be proper.” – said in a lordly British accent
I would much rather them say nothing at all.
Just show up some day with S.W.A.T. and handcuff them and haul them away.
Let the media cry and whine and then let’s see the evidence in a courtroom.
Goodness no! Not the icky truth given directly to us! Egads man!!
It is truly amazing to me, although not as much anymore because I’ve seen it so much, how very quickly people on the outside, who rail against the establishment, sit down and shut up once they’re inside the gates!
I have a dear friend who became involved with a Ministry organization which we soon discovered was horribly corrupt! When we talked to her about what we had found, mentioning specific people who were committing immoral, and in some cases blatantly illegal, activity, her response was very telling.
She said, ” I know you’re right and I know it’s bad but these people are my friends! And I know they mean well, so I just keep my head down and try to keep serving and trust that God will sort it all!”
Cannot the Executive, the President, request all of the information and then publicly announce and Truth said request?
-Rule Breaker in Chief
extraordinaire
It will the much longer if the President has to do everything himself. He needs help to move as far and as quickly as possible. I don’t want to know what they released to Congress, I want to know what they dismantled and who they either fired or banished to Guam.
Nuh uh…
Like Sundance wrote some time ago,
the President gets it all first
and then delivers /hands it to the elected elites at a meeting
then collects the information at the end of meeting,
then promptly goes public
-live; on air.
Guess PT is trying to let his Director and AG resolve these issues without looking political….but PT bought pigs in a poke.
Sundance, serious question. Is this the same Patel that did the Devolution Series? If so, I am horribly disappointed, because I felt I was getting a good education on what quite possibly was actually happening.
Thank goodness I have CTH and you to educate me. Thank you for your constant, and what I know to be the truth, information you consistently provide us. It is greatly appreciated by this senior citizen.
No, this is not the same person. The individual that did the devolution series just used the name Patel Patriot as a moniker. His name is Mat.
123, thank you for the clarification. I was hoping it was not. I enjoyed that series and learned quite a bit. It helped me understand what was going on some. Have a blessed Monday.
Look how many and how quickly SWAT raids were conducted when Mueller appointed Special Counsel, think Manaforte et. al. of relatively low level Trump supporters. Eastman is another example. And then again, look at the efficiency in going after J6’ers. Oh, and how come the Speaker has not fired now Capt. Boyd who shot Ashley Babbit. And never forget Douglass Mackey’s persecution just over a month after Biden was inaugurated.
We’re about 4 months into this administration.
A tremendous amount has been attempted.
Much has been accomplished.
Much of it by the President, and those he has appointed to critical positions.
However, after about 4 months, it appears that not much action has occurred at the DOJ and fbi.
Over 80 years ago, this nation was attacked at Pearl Harbor, in the month of December.
The country then suffered through one horrible reversal and defeat after another.
While the country was united in facing the threat posed by the enemy, there was little progress to show for it.
In April – about 4 months after Pearl Harbor – the US Finally took the fight to Japan 🇯🇵 and its home islands.
The Doolittle Raid.
Was it important, in the grand scheme of things?
No.
Did it dramatically change the course of the war?
No.
But – it DID give the American Public
SOMETHING to rally around.
Why….
Why….
Can’t
Bondi
Patel
Bongino
Come up with
Their own version
Of a ‘Doolittle Raid’????
Just to show that they’re
Doing
Something?????????
Anything???????????
Border Bob – if I had to bet, forget four months, a year from now there will be no “rank and file” agents that will have been indicted. As Sundance has previously stated, the excuse used will be “mistakes were made…”
Patel hasn’t fired one FBI agent….think about that. That alone is grounds to kick him out.
Why not? One and done! Rip it off like a band-aid!
THEN WHY THE HECK COME ON TV and put yourself in that situation. They basically just told the majority you are stupid Conspiracy theorist.
Would you like a side of fries with your bullshit?
< Bongino: “do you want it done right, or do you want it done correctly.”>
WTF does that even mean?
Bongino gives new meaning to talking in circular obsfucation.
My thoughts, verbatim.
It’s a misquote. He said “do you want it done right or do you want it done quickly”
That’s what I thought he said, too! So I went back and listened closely quite a few times.
Alas, it is hard to discern exactly what he said.
Alice in Wonderland time:
‘A word means exactly what I want it to mean – nothing more, nothing less’
Bongino said “do you want it done right, or do you want it done QUICKLY.” There is a difference. I think they don’t want to screw it up by by doing it quickly and leave loose ends open that may cause the case to fail. JMO.
You’re right…they have to let the statute of limitations expire; so they can say, “Gee, we really tried, we were so close to putting a cheery on top of this case, but that rascally rabbit of statute of limitations made the clock run out on us. Golly, Gee-willakers.” /sarc
At least they are spending their time getting fitted for expensive suits
Yes. I recall Kamala Harris getting some fancy suits to run for President. It’s a losers secret weapon.
Oh -and planning on wasting
money on yet another FBI
facility.🤬
Those two appear to have been
“measuring for drapes” 😉😉
for quite some time.
Decorating and clothing choices…🤷♀️💁♀️
🤣 🤣
I am so impressed…..Not.
Tulsi is more bad-azz than those two “ladies “. 👏 👏
Kash gets to decorate another office.
They really want us to believe Epstein killed himself. It makes me sick. Nothing will change.
Are you absolutely sure he is dead, and not in witness protection?
Don’t care either way. Who were the clients?
Oh pleaseeee lol.
Epstein is/have been very likely member of M O S S A….would he killed himself …..???? are they really think we are stupid as demon c rats ???????
I don’t think that’s their belief at all. Someone much higher than them gave them the company line.
I am very disappointed in both of these guys. Something has happened to them since they took these jobs.
Perhaps they will do some good, but I doubt it will be enough to set things right.
They both seem to be on a very short leash.
I don’t think they changed. It’s more likely that their new jobs have revealed their true character.
They folded back into players in the system just like they were before.
Bingo!
Correct
If “everything is a priority”, nothing is a priority.
Which makes the absence of priority for J6 justice all the more damning.
There will be no “justice”. That’s not why the Theater Kids have jobs.
Find the missing kids. That will unravel lots of other things.
looks like comments are not upbeat on the swamp critters doing anything meaningful. I agree.
Maybe if we get lucky Jim Jordan will open yet another investigation…….. LOL
It’ll be a cold day in you know where when you ever see anything meaningful come from Jordan other than another committee hearing or a letter to someone demanding a response.
I’m from Ohio , I know only too well Mr Jordan……
Maybe they’ll recall that establishment windbag Trey Gowdy for some serious finger-wagging and, if we’re oh so very good, a Sternly Worded Letter(tm). Remember just last month he Stunningly and Bravely chided the Administration for “disobeying” the Supreme Court by not following a judge’s order and the Supreme Court decision in the Abrego Garcia case.
Funny how the two top LE people never talk about investigations and arrests or locking up the crooks.
I’m surprised Pam Blondie didn’t crash the party and participate in front of another Fox News camera…These guys are gamers playing by the corrupt DC system rules and enjoying the ride…Show me something guys! Epstein files? J6 pipe bomb? Seth Rich? Voter fraud…Come on, I’m hungry for crow!!!
Show ponies, all of them.
So, people here want to jeopardize the possible upcoming criminal referrals just to satisfy our passion for instant gratification.
The fact that Kash and Dan are finding troves of new information should give us pause before disparaging these two men. Let them do the job right and get DOJ convictions. Otherwise the perpetrators will launch a media campaign and once more wiggle out of responsibility.
Tom Fitton and others will hold their feet to the fire.
Hope you’re right; having my doubts.
The point is no one should have to hold their feet to the fire.
The agency insiders are running out the clock. If they don’t start moving faster the arrests won’t happen until 20-never.
That’s a lot of hopium.
It would be better to say nothing until they can release something.
😂 😂 😂 😂 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
These guys are at the top of the pyramid in the Trump Team along with PAM B. Play the Game, Dance to the Deep State music, get along and don’t rock the boat! Do NOT throw rocks at the glass houses in D.C. 🙂 Cover your butt! Just RIDE the BULL for 4 years and you get a place in History! (and don’t piss off people that are “higher” then the President of the USA.)
Sound about right?
Prove me wrong! I really want to be proved WRONG. (honest)
You should never do what your opponent expects you to do.. This phase (200 days+) is a low-key, information driven war, not one of aggressive manoeuvre, however satisfying the latter is and frustrating the former is to supporters and opponents alike. Team Trump are repaying the DS back in their own coin, hence the increased frustration by their agents at not being able to gain any purchase with the issues in play (count the number of repulsed attacks, compared to their 2017 strike rate).
Feel better?
Patel and Bongino also absolutely claim that Jeffery Epstein killed himself (which involved having cameras shut off and guards misdirected).
They are upholding the “official” FBI account, in order to protect those on that list. The stink is real, and it goes to high heaven. =>[.]<=
Who knows? Maybe Kash and Bongino were allegedly on the list.
Everyone knows Epstein did not kill himself – everyone! That these guys don’t want to admit that tells you all you need to know.
BUT BUT BUT they said they saw the super secret files and it definitely said Epstein offed himself, he drugged the guards , disabled the cameras, got rid of his room mate to plan in advance . Then Epstein climbed on top of his 4ft high bunk bed and jumped to his death. Thats what the files say and they’re sticking by it.
maybe instead of whining and moaning and complaining for the next 3 years, people will start to conclude that this government is corrupt beyond reform. then you can get to the real choice, put up with it or burn it down.
Losers. All talk. Too incompetent to be strong leaders.
Expect nothing from these two. That way, you won’t be disappointed.
Last Sunday, Robert Barnes on the VivaFrei webcast articulated as much disappointment/impatience with PDJT’s DOJ as I’ve heard to date. Which tells me that SD’s cynicism is becoming wider-spread (and with justification).
To think of how many J6ers that shrew Garland had tormented by this point in the Biden administration, only to hear Vegas Ka$h cluck and bleat about a new FBI building is just enraging.
Everyone I see posting on this so far are absolute strangers to CTH. 🤔
Well not everyone, but many.
Sundance was the first to post the article and later posted a comment. So, what is your point?
We have recently noticed some new readers – that is probably a good thing.
Been that way for a while.
I do have a new internal discussion going on about the Epstein suicide.
Rembember they put that monster murderer in his cell.
It is almost certain that he violently raped him.
Now imagine thinking, ‘This is what I have to look forward to for the rest of my life.’
Could make one think of ending it.
Hung himself from a bunk bed as I recall. How short was he?
Tartaglione, who had his eye socket fractured after being transferred out of the cell and “got along with Epstein” while they were cellmates? I highly doubt it.
Have you read about a “foreign entity” behind Epstein’s “suicide”? The Royals is my educated guess. They also had the means to murder Virginia Guiffre Roberts first by nearly killing her in a collision with a schoolbus in the outback of Australia , then finishing their “sloppy” work.
The bread and circuses continue.
Literally “two more weeks.” They actually did the meme.
Patel and Bongino are both passionate defenders of the “honorable rank and file.”
Are they stupid or are they dishonest? Or both?
THIS^^^ is how I have known they are not honest actors….there are a number of FBI whistle blowers (treated poorly I may add) that all say the same thing, NEEDS TO BE totally disbanded and there are NO honorable rank and file…
Stupid probably covers it.
Yes.
“Do you want it done right, or do you want it done correctly?”
Try this on your boss sometime, when they ask you how that assignment they gave you a few weeks ago is coming.
See what happens.
That’s a faulty transcription.
He actuallhy said, “Do you want it done right or done quickly?”
Ka$h and Bon Jovi both wrote books and went on extensive speaking tours talking to everybody they know where the crimes are and where the evidence is. Now they’re both in charge and they can’t come up with anything all I can say they’re both liars.
tick tock, it’s coming, the walls are closing in, justice will be served, we’re building the case, no one is above the law, got them dead to rights, we’re draining the swamp, fill in the blank. arrests: zero.
Not interested in any chitchat. These people have railed and ranted about transparency and public release of information etc. so they very well know what is at stake and what is expected. So if they can’t deliver it’s on them. Shouldn’t have taken the job.
Looks bad when one makes a living attacking , exposing and masquerading as a problem solver and when given the job to solve all the problems they exposed, does absolutely nothing but praise the scum bags they previously chariterized as scum bags.
EXACTLY!!!!!!
I think this is why I am so disappointed… they talked a good game until they got the job.
Since when do heads of agencies need their sidekick to follow them around? Looks kind of lame.
Do separate presentations.
Since J. Edgar and his deputy boy toy Clyde Tolson.
Tangential:
Ya’ll skimming over the Karen Read case? How about the Btian Kohberger case?
Just IMAGINE all the illicit possibilities STILL available to the FBI and tbeir DNA database…a dead cop and a living forensic analyst…how interesting
Everything about these 2 cases stinks to high heaven
The sentiment here RE: Patel and Bongino may/may not be warranted because it’s not about what everybody knows, it’s about what we DON’T KNOW. You can be a skeptic while keeping an open mind if you trust Trump and defer to his rasoning that put them into these positions
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/us/idaho-murders-bryan-kohberger-dna.html
It’s highly unusual for this kind of evidence to get leaked from the prosecutorial side…unless we’re talking about the FBI
I may be wrong, but reading what Sundance has been posting, Sundance is pretty fustrated with this situation. Sundance can correct me if I’m wrong. I think we all want to “believe” A.G. and FBI will do the right thing, but we have been let down for a number of years now. So many of us speak from a place of “frustration”.
If we saw arrests, and trials , and ACTION taken, and court room stuff, … it would “help” give the feeling that these guys mean business. The Dems didn’t even care that the Trump Impeachments were not successful, just taking the ACTION and get better at arresting and criminal convictions, dem lawfare is pretty successful, they are blocking Trump agenda, right? Fight back in Court, and come up with counter-attack to take out the Leftist Scum. 🙂
No SD has said from the beginning that nothing will happen with the choices DJT made with Kash, Bongino and Bondi…whether by design or him being mislead, we have zero expecations of any of them…
I think we just want ACTION on something. Between these 2, and Blondi with all the Fox appearances.. sheesh. You gotta start somewhere. Just start chipping away fellas.
Big fan of James A. Baker. Couple of his quotes come to mind:
“Sometimes you’ve got to break a little china.”
“If you’re not gonna pull the trigger, don’t point the gun.”
Seems to me doing stuff right is doing it correctly. However, isn’t what they’re doing, Gaslighting.
Let’s see what happens.
Unimpressive duo, along with AG Barbie.
“Patel says, “you’re about to see a wave of transparency, just give us about a week or two.”
Ok, Kash, you’ve got 14 days, starting now. Go!
A little less talk, and a lot more action!
The only thing I will acknowledge is that there are no good Indians to carry out the chief’s orders. The FBI is corrupt to the core. The “good” FBI agents are a single digit percentage of the FBI. Maybe 1 in 50 are good ? In middle management maybe 1 in 500 ?
They both appear to have been consumed by the blob.
Did anyone ever see the movie “Dumb and Dumber”?
🤣 😂 😂
Like most controversial things with Trump, sometimes the best path is to let it play out.
Some tweets from Julie Kelly today.
Lots of interesting takeaways from Kash/Dan interview but I think I’m most shocked to hear that they discovered new info on Russiagate. Keep in mind—Dan wrote a book on it and Kash helped blow the lid off it as chief investigator for House Intel Committee
If you watched the Kash/Dan interview and follow up by Devin Nunes and still think nothing is happening at FBI related to corruption investigations and accountability you are a moron.
Patel and Bongino provide update on FBI’s Jan 6 investigation. New information on its way to Congress.
“We dug far and wide” to find information on use of FBI assets on Jan 6.
“There is a difference between an agent and a source or an asset.”
(This is a point I’ve been making for years and glad Dan is emphasizing the difference. The Horowitz report intentionally clouded the distinction. Now Grassley and Johnson want more info from Horowitz, too.)
Patel now explaining the promotion of Steve Jensen to head of Washington FBI field office. Jensen–and his own testimony demonstrated–fought FBI leadership on a few issues including spying on school board parents.
https://.com/julie_kelly2/status/1924127461857485071
https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1924120689147015535
https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1924117507251593408
Why did you use the word “moron”?
I just want it freaking done. You know, with results. I don’t care what “rules” aren’t followed or whose feathers get ruffled in the process.
I recall an old TV commercial with a old guy in a suit, covered in cobwebs, at his “Lethargic Federal Bank” desk saying “any day now, any day now…”
There is no apple……only worms…Sundance
I wonder if these guys realize the American people’s scorecard is how many of the crooks these guys arrest and NOT how many pages of paper they send over to Congress?
The biggest problem is their failure to clean house top to bottom, like Bondi.
Well we heard the reason why no cleaning house…..because they were just following orders and did not want to lose job. I am sorry but if your boss ask you to break the law and wrongfully indict innocent people or indict them with felonies when at most trespassing should have been the crime. When you raided there homes with guns, bankrupted them, broken up families, permitted abuse in jails……you are the criminal and we don’t want criminals working in the FBI. And if Kash thinks like that I don’t want him in the FBI,
Wasn’t 5,000 agents involved with J6?
I believe Maria is firewall protector of the leftist owned media. She was a card carrying member of the WEF and its YGL (Young Global Leaders) at one time. I don’t know if she still is.
She has never been able to pull off the MAGA impersonation convincingly. She’s shown symptoms of TDS over the past 10 years. This stunt speaks exactly to Sundance’s point that these DC dwellers are not brilliant, situationally aware, or as informed as We The People.
She cannot be trusted. That they would even sit down with her shows they are clueless. This should have been a clear non-starter.
Its truly disheartening to see so much fly over the heads of those we want to put our trust in.
We shall struggle on.
Waaaaa….disappointed in you Dan.
Check what your President is doing!
You think you got issues? Please.
I have zero confidence these two will fix anything substantive. Very discouraging.