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Dan Bongino has assumed his position as deputy director of the FBI. In the X post below he provides a preliminary report on how things appear from his perch on the inside looking out. It is a positive report.

In the best interests of openness and transparency I’d like to make a habit out of posting regular information updates.

-The work going on inside of the FBI is saving lives. Most of it is done in silence due to its sensitive nature, but it is laudable. I had high expectations…

— Dan Bongino (@FBIDDBongino) March 21, 2025

Despite the disgrace of the former leadership of the FBI and other officers implicated in carrying out the wishes of the Democratic establishment, Bongino’s report is positive: “The work going on inside of the FBI is saving lives. Most of it is done in silence due to its sensitive nature, but it is laudable. I had high expectations for the good guys, and they’ve been surpassed.”

I just want to add that Bongino’s observation comports with my own experience as an outsider observing the work of the FBI in the Feeding Our Future fraud case over the past six weeks. If it weren’t for FBI forensic accountants Pauline Roase, Lacra Blackwell, and Sonya Jansma as well as FBI Special Agents Jared Kary and Travis Wilmer, a large crew of “Minnesota men” and “Minnesota women” would have gotten away with their despicable crimes.

I also saw the work of the Minneapolis FBI at the 2016 trial of the “Minnesota men” (i.e., Somali immigrants) who sought to leave Minnesota and join ISIS to wage jihad. Thanks mostly to our local Somali immigrants, Minnesota has been a hotbed of terrorist recruitment by overseas terrorist organizations.

The Minneapolis division of the FBI has devoted substantial resources to deterring and interrupting the recruitment of Minnesota Somalis. It would be better to turn off the immigration spigot and perhaps even let those who burn to wage jihad (as the “Minnesota men” did) do so somewhere far beyond our borders where they are likely to get killed. In the meantime we have to rely on diligent and honest law enforcement.

In a 2015 presentation to Minnesota’s National Security Society, former FBI Minneapolis chief division counsel (now retired) Kyle Loven stated bluntly that the office had “four national security squads working this thing” (i.e., the counterterrorism beat). As Minnesota counsel for TCF National Bank I worked with federal law enforcement officers based here in one of the cases involving an Arab family whose mother was traveling to Minneapolis from Beirut for a family wedding. I wrote about that case in “Who WazWaz that masked man?”

When mom was leaving Minneapolis on her way back home to Beirut in March 2003, the authorities found six cashier’s checks worth $108,030 sewn inside the lining of her luggage (as I recall) and destined for her friends in Lebanon. In that case they seized the checks but let her continue on her way back home to Lebanon.