Questions are swirling inside the FBI after Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel made the unprecedented move of naming Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey as co-deputy director of the bureau — a first in the agency’s history.
The announcement comes amid rising tensions with current Deputy Director Dan Bongino, who has been under a microscope since a falling out with Bondi over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files last month, CNN reported.
Bailey will now serve alongside Bongino in the number-two role, Patel and Bondi confirmed to Fox News Digital, which first broke the story. Bongino, who was appointed as the FBI’s sole deputy director earlier this year, shocked colleagues in July when he largely isolated himself from internal operations following the Epstein files dispute.
