Dan Bongino

They never let this go.

Again, Attorney General Bondi, for your incredible support.

Director Patel, Judge, I know they're giving me a lot of unnecessary credit, but make no mistake, they were intimately involved in this and were there for all of those supportive mechanisms.

And I deeply appreciate it.

My first meeting, I swore in, and I kid you not, probably 15 minutes later, and the people who were in the meeting know, I said, when I get in there, I want a full brief on this Pipe Bomber case on day one.

And I looked at the case agent after getting a full brief on what they'd done, and they had done a pretty extensive amount of work.

They had chased down, I think, thousands of leads.

Six thousand plus interviews had been conducted.

hundreds of tips, and it still was relatively stale, the case.

And I grabbed the case agent on the way out, and I said, you're going to get me this guy.

You're going to track this guy down, and you're going to find him.

You're going to get me this guy.

I want him.

And that started what's been almost a nine-month operation right now to make sure that we could get full accountability and transparency to the American public and find this guy.

And today, we did.

Look, I gotta tell you,

It kind of makes me looking at this crowd doing a victory lap when all the senior FBI officials across all key divisions have been fired for political purposes.

When in some field offices, up to 45 percent of the FBI officers who are doing things like counter-tespionage and cyber have been assigned to do immigration cases.

It's a little rich that they're saying America is safer.

How much earlier could we have caught this guy if resources hadn't been diverted?