FBI veteran Christopher Raia has been tapped to replace Dan Bongino as co-deputy director of the bureau, a move that restores an active agent to one of the FBIs top leadership posts.
Raia, who joined the FBI in 2003, currently serves as the assistant director in charge of the New York Field Office and previously worked as a deputy assistant director in the Counterterrorism Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., according to Gateway Pundit. As reported by Gateway Pundit, Fox News and ABC News both indicated that Raia will assume his new role in Washington on Monday, serving alongside Andrew Bailey as co-deputy director.
Per ABC News: The FBI says that the current head of the FBIs New York field office, Christopher Raia, is being appointed as the agencys co-deputy director taking over the position Dan Bongino just left. The outlet added, Sources say Raia is expected to start in his new position as early as Monday.
This appointment fulfills a promise long sought by rank-and-file agents, who had been told that an active FBI agent would again hold the deputy director position after Kash Patels nomination as FBI director. This means that an agent will once again be in a deputy director role atop the FBI, ABC noted, after the FBI Agents Association previously complained that Bongino, rather than a serving agent, had been placed in the job.
Fox News also confirmed the leadership change, reporting that FBI veteran Christopher Raia has been named co-deputy director of the federal law enforcement agency, the bureau confirmed Friday to Fox News Digital. The outlet further stated, Raia, who runs the bureaus New York City field office, will move to Washington, D.C., and begin his job on Monday, and will serve as co-deputy director with Andrew Bailey.
Last month, just before Christmas, Bongino confirmed he was resigning from the FBI, stepping down amid ongoing conservative criticism of the bureaus politicization and double standards. Bonginos announcement came only weeks after Brian Cole of Virginia was arrested for planting pipe bombs at the RNC and DNC on January 5, 2021, a stark reminder that while the FBIs leadership battles questions of credibility and bias, the threats facing the country remain very real and demand competent, apolitical law enforcement.
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