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FBI creates multiagent bodyguard team to protect Dan Bongino
NBC News ^ | 4/08/2025 | Ken Dilanian

Posted on 04/08/2025 8:36:59 AM PDT by simpson96

The FBI has issued a call for agents to voluntarily serve as bodyguards for Deputy Director Dan Bongino, a break from past practice in which the bureau’s No. 2 officials did not have security details, two current and two former FBI officials familiar with the matter told NBC News.

Here's The Average Price for a 6-Hour Gutter Upgrade in Hammond Ad Here's The Average Price for a 6-Hour Gutter Upgrade in Hammond Homebuddy.com Learn more Bongino, a former Secret Service agent and New York police officer who became a wealthy pro-Trump podcaster, harshly criticized the bureau for years before President Donald Trump chose him to be deputy director.

Bongino, the first deputy director in FBI history who is not a career agent, has pledged to act in a nonpartisan manner.

Last week, a message sent to FBI agents — known as a canvass — asked for volunteers to leave their jobs temporarily to serve on a protective security detail for Bongino. The canvass sought agents willing to relocate for 30 days of temporary duty to protect Bongino 24 hours a day, according to two former FBI officials familiar with security details. Full-time protection could require as many as 20 agents, they said.

The request for 30-day “temporary duty assignments,” or TDYs, means the detail will consist of a rotating group of agents who volunteer to leave their normal duties. Creating the security detail appears to run counter to one of FBI Director Kash Patel’s top priorities: transferring FBI agents from headquarters to the field, where, he argues, they can better fight crime.

The FBI declined to comment.

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KEYWORDS: assistantdirector; bodyguard; bongino; fbi; guard; security
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To: martin_fierro

Don’t know; still waiting on the extension to my car insurance.


21 posted on 04/08/2025 11:08:44 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: cableguymn

You don’t know what you don’t know.

It isn’t the existence of Trump supporters that necessitate a security detail for Bongino.


22 posted on 04/08/2025 3:05:20 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: simpson96

I wonder how long the list of volunteers is going to be. My guess is in the hundreds.

EC


23 posted on 04/08/2025 4:24:13 PM PDT by Ex-Con777
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To: poinq

If Dan is at risk..

So is his wife and family.


24 posted on 04/08/2025 4:50:46 PM PDT by cableguymn (Can't cancel all of us)
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To: Seruzawa

The Trump administration will want to use it too.

to quote Judge Smails.

well, we’re waiting!

Trump should have solid control of those files by now.


25 posted on 04/08/2025 4:52:47 PM PDT by cableguymn (Can't cancel all of us)
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To: simpson96

This is rather rich on the part of Fusion Ken/NBC. From what I’ve read, Chris Wray used the FBI GulfStream jet as his personal transportation to fly back home to Atlanta on the weekends for 8 years. I have no idea how much security he had, but it safe to assume he had plenty.


26 posted on 04/10/2025 10:54:16 AM PDT by EVO X ( )
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Chris Wray used the FBI GulfStream jet as his personal transportation to fly back home to Atlanta on the weekends for 8 years.

And to Saranac Lake NY for Summer vacations.

27 posted on 04/10/2025 10:57:01 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro
And to Saranac Lake NY for Summer vacations.

Fusion Ken's story line seems to be if the FBI would have hired the Deputy Director from the ranks, additional security wouldn't have been needed. Fusion Ken insinuates that DD Bongino should be able to provide his own security with a side arm without knowing the threat level...

28 posted on 04/10/2025 11:15:05 AM PDT by EVO X ( )
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