FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino took to social media on Thursday to announce a massive arrest in Texas just a week into his new job.
“Our @FBIHouston team is doing unbelievable work getting illegal drugs off the streets. 150 KILOS of narcotics seized just this week — and two successful operations this morning,” the former top conservative talk show host noted on the X platform. “Thank you, agents. You are making America safe. Because of you, it’s a bad day to be a bad guy.”
Meanwhile, an FBI agent who said that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani “may have been compromised” by Russian agents and accused the first Trump administration of political bias was detained at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport before he could leave the country.
In a criminal complaint submitted on Tuesday, Jonathan Buma was accused of unlawfully revealing private information.
In October 2023, Buma, a counterintelligence expert and 15-year FBI veteran who had criticized the first Trump administration’s handling of classified material, allegedly printed out almost 130 files from FBI networks.
At least eight of the files contained “sensitive information reports relating to a foreign adversary,” and some files contained information that confidential human sources provided to the FBI, which “were clearly marked with protected warnings that made clear that the information was to be protected,” said the complaint.
Additionally, Buma allegedly printed out screenshots of messages he sent and received with a confidential source using an encrypted messaging app; the complaint claimed that the images, which contained information, somehow made their way into a news story later that year.
Buma allegedly informed his supervisors that he intended to take an unpaid leave of absence after printing the necessary materials for his candid autobiographical book.
