FBI Deputy Director Says Current US ‘Threat Picture’ Is ‘Dramatic’

Bongino cited the “threat of China infiltration into our systems” and “the threat of AI alignment,” in addition to “the drone threat.”

Flags fly over an entrance to the FBI headquarters, days after the Trump administration launched a sweeping round of cuts at the Justice Department, in Washington on Feb. 3, 2025. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino provided an update on June 4 about what “threat picture” the United States currently faces, citing drone attacks, artificial intelligence (AI), and Chinese infiltration.

“The threat picture now for the United States is dramatic,” Bongino told Fox News’s Sean Hannity in an interview. “When you get the president’s daily brief every morning like the director and I do for this ... you go out of there [and] your blood pressure is through the roof. It’s so many different things.