Deputy Director Raia on How the FBI Is Tackling Political Violence
September 29, 2026 · FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation · 0:02:58
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What happened
The FBI published this video of Deputy Director Christopher Raia on September 29, 2026, addressing how the Bureau is tackling political violence. It was one of a set of short Raia and Director Patel segments the Bureau released that week from its Inside the FBI series, alongside Raia’s segments on the Bureau’s violent-crime strategy and the Operation Summer Heat 2.0 statistics.
Why it matters
Political violence is the threat line where the deputy’s office speaks for the Bureau’s operational posture. Raia — the FBI’s sole deputy director under Director Kash Patel — putting the Bureau’s approach on the record in the Bureau’s own channel is the subordinate layer’s public account of that work, in the same series as his September 11 terror-threats statement.
Sources: FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation, “Deputy Director Raia on how the FBI is tackling political violence” (published September 29, 2026, embedded above).
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