By Misty Severi | Just the News
Bongino, who left the bureau in January after roughly 10 months in the job, said he found the document in a burn bag that was related to the FBI probe into allegations of Russian collusion in President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino confessed in an interview Tuesday that he lives in constant fear that he’ll face retaliation after he shed light on corruption in the bureau and because of a document he found related to Crossfire Hurricane.
Bongino, who left the bureau in January after roughly 10 months in the job, said he found the document in a burn bag that was related to the FBI probe into allegations of Russia collusion in President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.
The former deputy director claimed on the “Hang Out with Sean Hannity” podcast that the document was clearly meant to be destroyed because it contained information that was “basically the keys to the kingdom on Crossfire.”
“It was the mother lode,” Bongino told Hannity. “And the document was so sensitive we were not even to carry it outside of the office. I will never be the same. I’m being as serious as a stroke right now. I’m really, I’m scared.
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