Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey will serve as the FBI's co-deputy director, alongside the law enforcement agency's current second-in-command, Dan Bongino.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed the news on X , saying Bailey "took on the swamp, fought weaponized government, and defended the Constitution" as Missouri's top law enforcement official. Bailey will resign from his current job on Sept. 8, he said in a statement .

"My life has been defined by a call to service, and I am once again answering that call, this time at the national level," Bailey wrote.

Bongino welcomed Bailey to the agency in an X post .

"Let's get after it," FBI Director Kash Patel wrote in response to Bongino .

Fox News was first to report Bailey's appointment.

In the past, the FBI deput

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