FBI Co-Deputy Director Andrew Bailey Announces Departure
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Andrew Bailey, one of the FBI’s two deputy directors, announced Monday that he is stepping down roughly a year after joining the bureau’s leadership. CBS News reported that his resignation will take effect Oct. 2.
“With great pride in what we have accomplished, I am announcing that I am stepping down to return to my family in Missouri,” Bailey wrote on X. He thanked President Donald Trump, Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel. Patel praised Bailey’s work on what he called “critical reforms” and said his leadership would be missed.
Bailey, a former Republican attorney general of Missouri, joined the FBI in 2025 under an unusual arrangement in which the deputy director position was shared. He initially served alongside Dan Bongino and has since served with Christopher Raia after Bongino left in January. Bailey had recently overseen election-related investigations, including one related to 2020 ballots in Georgia, according to The Guardian.
Several outlets reported friction within the bureau’s leadership. CBS News, citing sources familiar with the relationship, said Patel had kept Bailey out of some meetings and that sources said Bailey was constantly flagging things that were unconstitutional. MS Now linked his departure partly to frustration over the recent demotions of two Washington Field Office counterterrorism officials, but a source quoted by the Washington Examiner strongly denied that account. Bailey publicly cited family reasons for leaving.
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