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2025-05-16 Home Front: Politix
Kash Patel announces FBI ditching DC headquarters, transferring 1,500 agents
[NYP] FBI Director Kash Patel announced Friday that the bureau is leaving its longtime headquarters in the J. Edgar Hoover Building and would transfer 1,500 employees to locations around the country.

"This FBI is leaving the Hoover building because this building is unsafe for our workforce," Patel told Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo in an interview.

"We want the American men and women to know if you’re going to come work at the premier law enforcement agency in the world, we’re going to give you a building that’s commensurate with that, and that’s not this place."

"So we are taking 1,500 of those folks and moving them out. Every state is getting a plus-up. And I think when we do things like that, we inspire folks in America to become intel analysts and agents and say we want to work at the FBI because we want to fight violent crime and we want to be sent out into the country to do it."

He added: "in the next 3, 6, 9 months we’re going to be doing that hard."

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Posted by Besoeker 2025-05-16 11:09|| || Front Page|| [157 views ]  Top

#1 Constructive turmoil. The shaking off of retiree annuitants and beltway contractors.
All in all, a brilliant move.

Perhaps the IRS and Department of Agriculture will be next.
Posted by Besoeker 2025-05-16 11:20||   2025-05-16 11:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Kash said that he would do that.
Posted by Super Hose 2025-05-16 12:20||   2025-05-16 12:20|| Front Page Top

#3 There's more than 1500 FBI employees in the DC area. What's gonna happen with them? So I'm guessing FBI gets there Greenbelt Office? That's what I am reading.

Remember when DC politicians got mixed up with N.Virginia Fairfax prostitutes - honey pots - when FBI was trying to secure funding for their new location. Once funded, the prostitute stories disappeared.
Posted by mossomo 2025-05-16 12:58||   2025-05-16 12:58|| Front Page Top

#4 11,000 FBI employees in the 50 mile radius around Washington, DC, per Director Patel in the tweeted video. Only 1500 being moved out in this first iteration, separate from those already being sent on temporary assignments or long business trips across the country and all over the world as they pursue their cases.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-05-16 16:02||   2025-05-16 16:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Patel is closing the FBI headquarters, which is on Pennsylvania Avenue. There is also an FBI field office, on 4th St NW. A high school classmate was stationed there before he retired.
Posted by Rambler 2025-05-16 16:13||   2025-05-16 16:13|| Front Page Top

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