Extremists Links: FBI Leadership's History of Promoting Far Right Conspiracy Theories

Kash Patel and Dan Bongino have previously promoted various types of far right conspiracy theories, and repeatedly called for the investigation and prosecutions of Donald Trump's political opponents.

Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino gives an opening statement during a forum to discuss the assassination attempt of President Trump at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. (Image: Greg Nash / The Hill)

The latest reporting on extremist groups within the Radical Right.

White Supremacists, Militia Movement, and Far Right Extremists

• New deputy FBI director Dan Bongino previously called for imprisoning Democrats [NPR]

• FBI Deputy Director Bongino repeatedly said pipe bombs planted ahead of Jan. 6 were ‘inside job’ [CNN]

• FBI investigations of far right on road to nowhere under Kash Patel, experts warn [The Guardian]

• Federal workers haunted by Oklahoma City bombing fear Trump’s barbs [The Washington Post]

• This Pentagon Press Secretary Has a Long History of Bigoted and Xenophobic Posts [Mother Jones]

• Pentagon official posted neo-Nazi talking point about Jewish lynching victim Leo Frank last year [Forward]

• ‘They worship death’: Trump ‘border czar’ reveals extremist views in interview [The Guardian]

• Trump Is Expanding His Dangerous Cult of Impunity [The New Republic]

• What Happens When an Executive Ignores the Law? Ask Constitutional Sheriffs. [Democracy Docket]

• National Guard investigates unconstitutional county militia leaders in Virginia [HateWatch]