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.
I, too, thought the back-and-forth with Maria (that started with her protesting that nothing would be done) seemed scripted and awkwardly acted.
It’s a shame, because I like all of them and want to believe them.
It was 1000% scripted. I listened in my car as I drove to the store. I wanted to punch my windshield out. HOLY F. THEY FLAT OUT TOLD US NOBODY WILL BE PROSECUTED. StaTute of limitations!!! GTFOH
Yet they are setting up a beautiful FBI that can be trussssted….
Plan accordingly everyone. We are on a 4 year hiatus. And when they get back, it’s gonna be just like the book of revelations. Prepare accordingly.
UFR
Dont overlook After the 4th chapter of Jesus revelation the church is no longer mentioned. God Removes us thru the Rapture then the great tribulation comes.
Even so come Lord Jesus.
Pre-Trib? Mid-Trib? Post-Trib?
Pan-Trib — It will all pan out according to God’s sovereign will.
Trust God, fear not.
I used to like all of them but no longer do.
I feel angry and betrayed.
A few days ago I posted that I thought Patel and Bongino were sociopaths who had played MAGA like a fiddle.
I no longer think that. I’m beginning to think that they are just not that smart and I am mad at myself for being fooled by them.
In the law and in politics, aggression can masquerade as smarts when it is simply just aggression and nothing more.
Patel, Bondi, and Bongino are in way over their heads.
At what point is PT responsible?
I believe them both. Release everything. Lets us read it. Ultimately it will be up to the DOJ Bondi to prosecute or not.
Sundance nailed it, their background experiences are as political bureaucrats/operatives, and while that provides some great insight aspects, they appear to be reacting within those corrupted political parameters. They need to be reacting as business CEO’s, say, like Trump or Musk! They can say that the system restricts their operating potential, but that’s just an excuse. Do I want it done right or correctly? What utter BS! The FBI is completely discredited, and if they ( Patel/Bongino/Bondi ) think that a legislative committee ” investigation ” or court prosecution will be anything other than a rigged shell game, then Trump should cut them loose. They should start dropping the hammer on all the treasonous B’s toes, hammers to their knuckles, then cattle prods to…..well, you know. Don’t let the B’s catch air, get them feeding off each other. Get the info into the sunlight ( public )! Yeah, I’d like to see some high value convictions and sentences, but I don’t have twenty years left, let the devil sort them out.
Deputy Dan Bongino says, “do you want it done right, or do you want it done correctly.”
Whaddya want? Good flavor or good taste?
(equally nonsensical)
Bongino just showed everyone what a pr*ck he is and Kash looked like he wanted to call his mom.
This pretend interview didn’t do them any favors.
Sorry but I noticed what a prick Bongino is when Tucker Carlson interviewed him. It was so obvious. Even I could see it. Tucker just kinda laughed.
Bongino isn’t the prick.
If you’re referring to me that’s actually funny. The fact remains that you’ll eventually see who Bongino really is.
That’s NOT what he said.
He said, “Do you want it done right, or do you want it done quickly?”
Go to 7:25 on the video.
I was responding to Sundance’s text
If it’s a misquote, then please forgive me for correctly quoting a misquote
But thanks none the less
Both. Time is of the essence.
And I LOVED the BS comment about having JUST found out unknown stuff, and just give us ABOUT two weeks to release it.
WE ARE BEING PLAYED AGAIN…
Don’t release it. Send your evidence to the DOJ for prosecution. No Legislative hearings!
There won’t be indictments….Statute of limitations according to the 2 rejects.
Simple ..don’t want to hear about the things they can’t indict …want to hear about the things they can indict….and there are hundreds if not thousands . This is being used by the 2 to divert our attention…pacify….we are loud and it is getting uncomfortable.
My response to Bongino would have been, “We’d settle for it just being done period.”
Thank you for correcting that.
Okay, thanks for the clarification!
The engineering triangle is “better, faster, cheaper… choose two”.
We can get it done right AND quickly, just freaking PRIORITIZE it and spend all the $$$$. Lord knows the government knows how to spend when it WANTS to.
I heard that too PJ. He clearly said “done right, or done quickly”
He said, quickly – not correctly.
Thanks for saying this! Silly me, I thought “right” and “correctly” meant the same thing.
He said quickly, not correctly. Listen again.
Product of his nervousness ..on the defense with passive aggressive behavior.
Ugh. I had a feeling these two would be more of the same.
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.”
Um …
Why did Crooks have overseas bank accounts?
What were the nature of transactions on those accounts?
Who made deposits to those accounts, and in what amounts?
Same for outlays / payments
Same for domestic accounts
Let’s have a dump of all Crooks’ electronic communications (email, messaging apps, phone texts, postings to groups and social media — with whom? Verbatim transcripts?
Was all that thoroughly investigated?
Let’s see the folder, please
Or was it all – ahem – 86’d ? (in the parlance of our times … hat tip to The Dude)
… and various platforms told to delete all his content?
How many overseas bank accounts do I have?
None.
How many do you have?
Probably the same?
How many overseas accounts should a 20-year old man with limited financial resources have?
In my mind, zero.
Common sense says it doesn’t make sense – unless…
There’s a reason.
Even a schmoe like me,
Can see.
Too much baloney.
The attempted ‘assassination’ (and remember, the msm STUDIOUSLY avoided using that term – assassination- in the first reports – and even later) happened 10 months ago –
EVERYTHING about it has been ‘86’d’.
Imagine if his majesty, the Magic obama, had been subject to the same attempt,
As a candidate.
We would
Never
Ever
Have heard the end of it.
As CTH has indicated,
The word
‘Performative’
Seems to fit,
When we discuss the
DOJ and all its minions.
“The attempted ‘assassination’ (and remember, the msm STUDIOUSLY avoided using that term – assassination- in the first reports – and even later) …”
this very compelling graphic was posted here the other day
I made sure to save it
You are exactly correct!
Bongino was the narrative engineer right after Trump’s assassination attempt.
Bongino said that it was because of incompetence.
All of your questions supposed to be answered, but the three stooges Bondi, Kash and Bongino will do nothing.
Everyday Americans have done more investigating than the three of them put together.
So you think all along Bongino has been an asset of the IC?
How would he know there is no “there” there since a real investigation has not been done. American citizens have done more investigating than they have. We the People are getting just a bit fed up with all this nonsense and want to see some action, not excuses.
2 weeks to bend the curve.
Not at all happy with these two – their decision to state it was suicide re Epstein was the final straw – if they’re are so confident it was suicide, why not release everything contained in their files allowing those in the public with much experience in these matters an opportunity to make their own determination with their reasons.
We all know who conducted the investigation – and who they worked for at the time.
IOW – nothing has changed.
And Epstein killed himself while the guards were sleeping and all the cameras broke down. Damnit!
When they consider the truth more important than “national security” or “the process”, I might get interested.
I continue to sense and understandable weariness with what we’ve been through that seems to maximize impatience and to minimize the scale of the big ugly that FBI, Director, Patel, and deputy FBI Director Bongino are facing.
I continue to believe that President Trump, AG Bondi, the FBI directors and Trump’s team are aware of everything that we are aware of. I believe they are treading carefully, putting the essential framework in place, especially financially and safety wise for our country, without which not much can be done, and without which many Americans are daily suffering and imploding. I respect FBI Deputy Director Bongino’s comment, “Do you want it done right?” … yes, we do, we do not want any of these corrupt criminals to skate because of sloppy judicial process. I also sense a multi-prong approach where little successes are regularly weakening the tentacles of the deep state simultaneously, so that some point there can be the implosion of the big ugly from within with one masterstroke. I am also aware that all of this may be my wishful thinking, because I want my children and their future to be well. And because I believe with God, all things are possible, I continue to pray and hope.
When Bongino was railing daily on his podcast about the sloveness of the FBLIE, DOJ, ETC., he wasn’t sympathetic regarding “doing it right” vs. quickly.
Hypocrites are rarely successful when given the chance to NOT be a hypocrite. ALWAYS comes back to bite you.
Bongino is a loser as Asst. FBLIE DIRECTOR. So is Patel and Blondie. If you are going to run your mouth about something and are then given the job to clean up what you have been criticizing, you damn well better start showing some results quickly since you had 4 years to evaluate how bad it was.
All talk and no skill set to back up the talk leads to what we are seeing.
Totally agree. Compare these three with Tom Homan. The word is that Trump called Homan and said “ok you’ve been bitching about the border for years – do you want the chance to do something about it?” Homan jumped at the chance and we see the results. We didn’t have to wait around for months. Why not the same thing with these three losers. What is different? Could it be that Homan was indeed serious but the three amigos are only in it for the fame and prestige?
Correctomundo!!!
Homan knows what to do – just give him the people
Money
Authority
And he’ll get it done.
I’ll give him two more weeks to produce and if not then he’s toast in my book.
so 2 weeks is first week in July right?
My feelings too. I am still somewhat willing to wait a little longer since they have an immense task and are still fairly new on the job. To even wrap your head around the enormity facing them when they got in there is daunting.
My only thought is if they were going on here today, they knew it ahead of time. Why not wait to come on and release it properly and right then. Give people the goods, all of it, and do not keep saying wait longer. YOU need wait to open your mouths about the information until you are putting it out there.
Daunting or not…should have put out low hanging fruit…..fired a bunch of people ….then on to the daunting.
‘Two weaks to flatter our plebian nerves’ …..
Hey you wankers, WHERE’$ JEFFREY!?!
On his new island most likely.
Nothing will happen, and Comey knows it. He is bold, but he is not an idiot.
They both work for Bondi. Still waiting.
I feel like Comey was told by his handlers to do exactly what he did, just to make sure their chess pieces were still under their control.
Mission accomplished.
Trump is the president and that’s what matters. I don’t give a damn about the payback I am just enjoying the future for the people of the world with him in charge.
Oh
Joe Biden has heath issues I heard.
It isn’t payback for God sake. It accountability. If they are not held to account; you can take your happy feelings and head for the hills. Although that won’t save you. They will find you and destroy you.
Wake up
Then you clearly don’t give a damn about what happens after Trump . If justice is not met the country will be all over with right after Trump . You need to look ahead .
Patel is a fraud. At least Bondi is what she appears to be. Patel had Bannon and his “war room posse” completely snookered. He is a fraud and nothing is going to happen, nothing released, nothing will happen.
My opinion of Bongino remains the same; he is not very smart. He has no clue what he is doing. Just a little puppy dog.
It really annoys me when people say something is coming, earthshaking, etc…why would you say that? It definitely gives the enemy a heads up and of course, something will come up to delay the ‘news’…nothing burger when these two are involved.
Well, hopefully I am wrong.
Yea, like the Epstein list that was on Bondi’s desk. Just pick a couple of easy cases to give us some hope. For example, Get Ralph Baric/UNC. Everyone knows what they did. There are many easy ones like that. Inaction destroys trust.
“ something is coming, earthshaking, etc ”
It’s called Trump personnel gas lighting us. More shiny objects coming…
“It really annoys me when people say something is coming, earthshaking, etc…why would you say that? “….. Because this phrase made Hannity, Beck, and John Solomon rich.
Day one all FBI agents involved in the raid on Mara logo , Jan 6 ,special council investigation, pipe bomb nonsense should have been Fired FULL STOP.
Bingo. Quick and easy, japoneesy
Do you want it done right or do you want it done correctly?
Thomas Paine’s conclusion that all governments are evil. A necessary evil because when more than a few people group together some of them will selfishly and unless constrained cause harm. The people doing the governing then also have members acting selfishly. Thus what I want is a method of determining who the bad people are a means of removing them from the government.
I acknowledge that agreement who the bad actors are is impossible when partisan politics are involved. So I believe the first Step is criminalizing partisan political parties existence. President Washington believed partisan politics would be the greatest to our Freedoms.
I ment greatest threat to our Freedoms. By our Freedom, I mean we the people not the members of the government. We need protection from them, they have possession of power to protect themselves.
I have sed before here at CTH that there are more FBI right now loyal to Jim Comey than Kash
I can’t prove that, but I certainly believe it. They become emboldened if no one takes action.
When good men won’t stand up and fight…
right back at us!
Something else…”we’re gonna have a Wave of Transparency!”
But, we’re doing very few interviews.
Huh?
Of course, we also criticize Bondi for giving too many interviews. Personally, I think Trump has far better (not perfect) picks for his second term.
I agree that he was more careful this time. Bondi was a Florida political deal. In my opinion, she is in over her head.
All you have to remember is that Blondi was confirmed. They knew she would toe the line.
I wish President Trump could just keep appointing interims over and over. Real ballbusters.
I agree. And it’s super sad that it’s true. These were the best he could get through. Terrifying.
He said do you want it done right or done quickly about 7min mark
Not correctly as other comments suggest ?
Quick. Because as we all know; nobody is getting convicted. So get them in the court of public opinion ASAP
“Were there FBI agents undercover, egging people on?” An insistent Maria asked right before the typical Fox 9 minute long commercial break. Thanks, Kash, for wasting nine more minutes of my life.
They both came in talking the talk…….but they are not walking the walk….
perhaps the hardest thing to gain back is a persons trust…………………both lost mine.
Amen, Bjork
It was like this interview that was suppose to shut people up but instead did the opposite. Just reaffirmed fears of nothing being done and denials of wrong doing.
Look, how people judge Blondi, Ka$h, and BonJovi is really a litmus test.
Those that believe them are mere cheerleaders to the performers.
Uuuufffffff. We are going to the Gulfo de México for sunshine, sand and Sea!
Gracias Dios! Taking a break!
Why will they not arrest to crush the deep state?
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Sounds like, among other things, that they are overwhelmed with current mostly street crimes (drugs, sex trafficking and porn, violent crime, etc.), thanks to the open borders and other neglect the past four years.
In other words, go back to being supercops, and all of the past political corruption (a lot of it, sorry folks, being far beyond the Statute of Limitations), would rather palm it off on Congress. And J-6, etc., kind of a meh…
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It is because of all the other corruption done by these crooks is the reason why we have all the street crimes. Those 2 busy cleaning up the mess by the deep state only to leave them alone to continue their continued destruction. They can’t chew gum and walk….get rid of them.
Why are the eyes of both men so wide and staring? Those boyz look pretty jacked…
Is Catherine Austin Fitts an honest person? https://solarireport.substack.com/p/trump-administration-digital-control
“My simple question is, “why”?”
My simple question is why does Patel consider his agency as subservient to politicians?
Saw the interview …Patel, Bongino looked like cats on a hot tin roof
It was a pisser when right off the bat we are told “statute of limitations” applies to most of the RRR and don’t expect indictments. Ok, not their fault …but doesn’t that contradict the why they have taken so long to get it all together …so it can be done right …I mean they are not taking it to court right?
But all this time spent gathering info for Congress just to comb through …what are they gonna do with it, have their cable time and fund raise? With the 100’s if not 1000’s of crimes, criminals whom we know are guilty that are with in the SOL, why weren’t those worked on first so that we could see indictments, (most important before SOL runs out). Wouldn’t indictments cause needed chaos among the guilty? Wouldn’t indictments now/early pave allot easier path for PT?
I am talking about the crimes of J6, election steal 2020 still within a SOL, the illegal immigration and the purposeful implementation of it with its resulting sex traffic, drug traffic, murders, that are all part of breaking our immigration laws. Where are the indictments over a possible RICO involving a conspiracy among the Judges, Prosecutors, U.S. AG, Special Prosecutor, to violate and deny DJT rights under the Constitution. All of these crimes but RRR blah, Blah, Blah,
Then the icing was Patel making excuses for promoting An Agent who was directly involved without J6 prosecutions….H e really really didn’t want to do it but ….chain of command and losing his job made him do it. That’s right you should be able to go after innocent people and get out of jail free cause you might lose your job? I can’t even believe Patel said that without even blinking…. Not my kind of Director
No statute limit for treason
The Statute of Limitations can be tolled for things that were hidden anyway.
No one wants to keep hearing, “it’s coming”.
If they dom’t release some facts soon, POTUS will have to name new people.
Did you know there’s a fully compiled floating around list of the 5,000 FBI staff who have been harassing the Jan 6 attendees? And they’re trying to get a court to bury it?
Maybe if they are so worried about retribution, they shouldn’t have done the act in the first place?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbi-agents-beg-court-destroy-list-shame-campaign
I actually believe the DOJ is a lost cause. It needs to be blown apart and a real Dept of Justice reformed differently. Patel and Bongino appear to be “corporate” men
The FBI needs to be burned to the ground and the leftists, homosexuals, hyper-emotionals, and yes men who work there need to be terminated and exiled from communities of sane people. Full stop. Anything less allows the criminal mafia syndicate that is the FBI to bide their time and then weaponize again against a defenseless citizenry.
Kash Patel and Dan Bongino will turn out to be All Hat, No Cattle absolute pu**ies who are in in the scam. Both are Feds, and as anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear knowns, the only good Fed is a dead Fed.
I held a small regard for Kash Patel before this interview. I now have zero regard for him.
Bongino I quit listening to after he said there was no election fraud in 2020.
If I’m not mistaken, President Trump, in January 2021, declassified Crossfire Hurricane documents and told ole fat tub of Lard Barr to release it. What exactly are Abbot & Costello sending to be filtered by con-gress?
The Epstein BS is Bongino getting “cutesy,” to quote one of Bongino’s favorite terms.
Apparently the FBI is referring to their subcontractors as “assets” now. There’s that, “See, they’re not FBLIE employees” BS.
We apparently will not hear another word about the Pennsylvanian attempted assassination of President Trump because, after all, the shooter is dead. “Nothing to see here, folks, let’s move it along.”
How many of the “very fine agents of the FBLIE,” who took a knee for BLM marches, who harassed American citizens for protesting drag queen story hour, who targeted parents at school board meetings, who surveilled Catholics, etc, how many of them still have their jobs? I’d bet all of them. How many of the FBLIE agents, who knew about Nassar’s sexual abuse of gymnasts, still have their jobs?
Epstein isn’t dead. Remember Barr went to visit him right before he supposedly offed himself. He made a deal body or no body on the slab.
Tick tock
Hey Kash…Hey Dan…we want 3 am pajama parades and lots of TV cameras…
NOTHING LESS WILL DO!
Oh…and one more thing Kash and Dan….
NO MERCY!
I had to shut it off after they claimed they saw all the evidence about the President’s first assassination attempt. Also, it looks like they aren’t investigating it because Crooks is dead? What!! What about the Homeland Security people Crooks used to practice shooting with? I don’t have much confidence in them.
I hear a Mutley laugh at us. What foolishness this is.
He said, “done quickly” not correctly.
“Bongino and Patel are passionate speakers about their jobs and objectives”
Time is very limited.
We need need more passionate doing, and much less passionate speaking.
There might not be any doing, because there are a lot of forces who don’t want them to do anything.
There must be pressure on them that we don’t see. They appointed a J6 scumbag to head the DC field office, see here–https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/washingtondc/about. That doesn’t happen without some powerful players giving direct orders behind the scenes. There was speculation that Jim Jordan was responsible.
Kash also had the FBI and national security apparatus target him personally, so I don’t believe he’d throw in the towel so quickly and buy the company line, unless there was a very good reason to. Someone on zerohedge made a good point. These guys, ultimately, work for Trump. Trump must not want the Epstein info to come out, but he’ll play the media game and pretend like he does. All in all, there is no reforming the agency. This is not because there’s nobody capable of changing the agency, which I believe Kash is capable of doing, but because of all the pressure points and interests outside of the agency, who don’t want things to be changed.
Then they should go til they fall and then, NEXT MAN UP!
Well, that makes me feel better that we American citizens have eunuchs running the FBLIE.
They will try to make improvements on the edges–routing agents around the country for example, reducing violent crime, but overall, nothing much is going to change. Corrupt interests will certainly be protected. Like you, I had higher hopes, but there is no reforming things at this point.
You buy the ticket, you take the ride. Actions have consequences.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbi-agents-beg-court-destroy-list-shame-campaign
YES!!!
They’ve both disgraced themselves as liars.
“Just give us a week or two.” Then, in two weeks it will be some other excuse. DOJ and FBI are the two areas needing these most change and we see pretty much business as usual with a lot of talk.
Bongino looked very sheepish when he agreed that Epstein committed suicide. Patel felt compelled to recite his credentials. I thought that was rather revealing.
If “everything is a priority,” then is it not also true that nothing is a priority?
I look at both and say to myself…they gave up lucrative Contracts…Bongino in Radio with a multi million dollar salary and Patel in the literary field…books/interviews…worth a ton…
Now they have Gov salaries at a fraction of what they were being paid…Their hearts are in it…but is this job too big and convoluted?
Sounds elementary but…i hope they are not in over their heads…
Their hearts are in it, but the system pushed back.
Don’t kid yourself. They gave up careers temporarily. In 3-4 years both are even more valuable on the open media market as the former FBI director and FBI deputy. This was one step back to gain 10 steps forward.
I had a completely different take on this than most of the commenters. I’m going to watch it again.
I usually always watch these interviews 2 or 3 times..you see nuances you didn’t hear or see the first go-around
What would have given us hope if they would have walked Comey in handcuffs in front of the cameras and shown us they are going to stop this evil nonsense and Pam walking along side of them – could not be more disappointed and angry that they have done nothing in plain view to show MEGA they meant business and going for the jugular – the only one I trust is Elon – he showed us the corruption the evil and the tax payers money going out to the fraud culprits – how about the guy that had 800 security cards and was going to be arrested – Kash and his bug eyes and Dan and with his nonsense have so far failed to impress including Pam – Trump you better ask them why they didnt arrest the dirty cop?? Put them on notice
Epstein didnt kill him self – Dan and Cash give us a break !