‘Shocked To My Core’: Bongino Issues Chilling Statement About His Time With FBI

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino admitted on Saturday that he has been “shocked” to his core by some of the information secreted for decades within his agency.

Addressing his social media followers, Bongino reiterated his promise upon entering government to relay discoveries that “might not be immediately visible, but they are happening.” Some have been expected, such as public corruption and political weaponization, for instance, while others have shaken Bongino’s faith in the principles of democracy.

“The Director and I are committed to stamping out public corruption and the political weaponization of both law enforcement and intelligence operations. It is a priority for us,” he wrote Saturday on X. “But what I have learned in the course of our properly predicated and necessary investigations into these aforementioned matters, has shocked me down to my core.”

“We cannot run a Republic like this. I’ll never be the same after learning what I’ve learned.”

After years of operating in the dark, the FBI has seen its records ripped open by Bongino and FBI Director Kash Patel, both of whom railed against the Bureau during their time as conservative media figures. That’s included high-profile disclosures about internal investigations into agents soliciting prostitutes on the job, potential corruption by former Director Christopher Wray, and exhaustive reviews of the Clinton campaign and potential election fraud.

To be sure, terrorism attempts requiring the FBI’s intervention have kept their usual pace, making Bongino’s work doubly difficult.

In his post, he promised to complete “righteous and proper investigations” that will bring full transparency to an agency that conservatives have long criticized for its opaqueness.

“We are going to conduct these righteous and proper investigations by the book and in accordance with the law. We are going to get the answers WE ALL DESERVE. As with any investigation, I cannot predict where it will land, but I can promise you an honest and dignified effort at truth. Not “my truth,” or “your truth,” but THE TRUTH,” he said.

Bongino responded to his own post, linking to a recent Just the News article about newly declassified intelligence documents contradicting the narrative that Russia hoped for President Donald Trump to win the 2016 election. Those documents were released as part of a trove declassified last week by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

One Obama-era summary cites the Kremlin’s “historical” favoritism of Republican presidential candidates over Democratic ones, an assertion that flies in the face of Russian cyberattacks seeking to harm Republicans — including the targeting of an anti-Russian Democrat.

Dan Hoffman, a former CIA station chief in Moscow, dismissed that conclusion in the report.

“I never found that to be true at CIA. Not true. They hate all of us — Republican and Democrat. … They are at war with us — at war with democracy,” he told the outlet.