FBI deputy director says bureau will pour resources into cases including Supreme Court leak and cocaine at the White House

Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino said Monday that his bureau volition revive oregon give much resources into respective investigations of unsolved cases from the Biden medication that person "garnered nationalist interest" and person agelong ignited claims of corruption by allies and supporters of President Donald Trump.

Bongino identified 3 cases that helium said pointed to "potential nationalist corruption," including an probe into a brace of tube bombs that were recovered adjacent the Democratic Party and the Republican Party office Jan. 6, 2021, and the discovery of a container of cocaine astatine the White House successful 2023.

A 3rd lawsuit Bongino said would beryllium further reviewed was the 2022 leak of the unpublished Supreme Court determination ending national protections for termination rights. That probe was closed aft a astir eight-month probe which included forensic investigation but was incapable to place a idiosyncratic responsible.

"We made the determination to either re-open, oregon propulsion further resources and investigative attention, to these cases," Bongino wrote successful a station connected X.

"I person requested briefings connected these cases play and we are making progress," helium added.

The caller attraction to the cases comes arsenic the bureau faces unit to analyse claims that Trump's allies, including Bongino himself, person promoted: that the Biden medication and heavy authorities actors weaponized the Justice Department.

Before helium was sworn successful earlier this year, Bongino accused the FBI of lying astir not knowing the individuality of the tube bomber, saying, the bureau “just doesn’t privation to archer america due to the fact that it was an wrong job.”

The FBI successful January released video linked to the tube bombs, that it said depicted a masked fishy planting bombs extracurricular the Republican and Democratic office successful Washington a time earlier the Capitol riot.

Bongino has besides questioned the find of the container of cocaine that was uncovered successful the White House successful July 2023, suggesting soon aft the incidental that the cocaine belonged to a Biden household member. He wrote past on X, "there’s perfectly ZERO accidental anyone different than a household subordinate brought that cocaine wrong the White House complex."

The Secret Service concisely investigated the incidental and ended its probe aft officials said that it had not detected usable DNA oregon fingerprints and that information footage had not produced leads beyond a too-expansive database of 500 staffers and visitors.