Here is what the Washington Post reports about David Bowdich, who is expected to replace Andrew McCabe as deputy FBI director: The Albuquerque native graduated from New Mexico State University in 1991. He worked as an officer with the Albuquerque Police Department from 1991 to 1995. “He was very ambitious, very smart and very physically fit,” Deputy Police Chief Robert Huntsman told the Albuquerque Journal. Bowdich joined the FBI in 1995 as a special agent and served as a SWAT team member and sniper at the agency’s San Diego field office. There, he investigated violent crimes and gangs. One of his investigations included a year-long wiretap that resulted in the first federal criminal racketeering convictions brought against a street gang in Southern California.
In 2005, he started leading a multiagency gang task force that through undercover operations and wiretaps investigated drug and racketeering cases against the Mexican Mafia, Bloods and Crips gangs and the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. In 2014, he was named the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles field office. In L.A., he was on alert for the possibility of a terrorist attack months before the San Bernardino mass shooting. In February 2015, Bowdich told the Los Angeles Times he believed Southern California was a potential terrorist target. He then led the investigation of the December 2015 San Bernardino attack that killed 14 people and wounded 22 others.