Per the same NYT reporting. The day the DOJ's no-client-list memo dropped, Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino erupted at AG Pam Bondi in front of staff over the rollout.
Two days later, in the Situation Room, chief of staff Susie Wiles accused him of leaking to ABC News. Bongino offered $100,000 cash on the spot to disprove it, said he'd warned them all from the start, refused to sign onto the path forward, and walked out.
Eight days later, in the same complex, they pitched the courts plan above.
ALT Screenshot of the New York Times article describing Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino's profane eruption at Attorney General Pam Bondi the day the no-client-list memo dropped: yelling that she'd, in his words, fucked the thing up from the start, mocking her televised claim that the files were on her desk and the promises made to the base. A second paragraph states Patel and Bongino both subsequently told a White House official that Bondi needed to resign