But you have to remember that these people on the other side have no problem with killing anyone who gets in their way.
Maybe he thought he was incapable of changing the FBI without getting a dirt nap.
Would you give your life to try to clean out the Augean Stable of the FBI, only to be killed, and then, it would still be business as usual? They don't even have the classy 'star on the wall' that the CIA has.
It's a feculent group of thugs.
“It does look like ... he ... failed miserably when given a chance.”
How do you know what chances he was, or wasn’t, given?
Dan was placed there to give (false) credibility to the organization, but with no authority or power. IMO.
That maybe entirely true, but most of the people on our side fold immediately after getting to Washington, they opt for things like getting rich thru insider stock trading like MTG and Dan Crenshaw, or they stay in office and gaslight the public, I predict Bongino will go back on radio or have some type of public facing job, where he will extol all the great things that went on at the FBI when he and Kash Patel were running things.