FBI Director Kash Patel announced Friday that he is moving the bureau out of the J. Edgar Hoover Building, their base of operation for over 50 years.
If so, it would fulfill his controversial commitment before becoming Director.
Patel, in an interview with Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo on Friday, pointed out the poor logistical planning involved in having a third of the FBI workforce located in Washington, D.C.
“So, we’re taking 1,500 of those folks and moving them out,” he explained.
“I think when we do things like that, we inspire folks in America to become intel analysts and agents and say, ‘We want to go work at the FBI because we want to go fight violent crime, and we want to get sent out into the country to do it.”
Patel then dropped a bombshell that even had Deputy Director Dan Bongino taken aback.
🔥KASH PATEL: This FBI is LEAVING the J. Edgar Hoover building!
This is a HUGE change.
Even Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino is stunned that Patel dropped that one. pic.twitter.com/N0yaLzgmaz
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Patel revealed that the plan is precisely that – to fan those agents nationwide.
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