FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox News on Friday that he’s moving the 1,500 FBI agents stationed in Washington, D.C. and shutting down the Bureau’s headquarters at the infamous J. Edgar Hoover building because the nation’s capital is too dangerous.
“This FBI is leaving the Hoover Building because this building is unsafe for our workforce,” he said. “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.”
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“The FBI has 38,000 when we’re fully manned, which we’re not. In the national capital region, in the 50-mile radius around Washington, D.C., there were 11,000 FBI employees. That’s like a third of the workforce. A third of the crime doesn’t happen here, so we’re taking 1,500 of those folks and moving them out,” he continued.
Patel added, “Every state’s 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 go work at the FBI because we want to go fight violent crime and we want to get sent down into the country to do it.’ And that’s what we’re doing in the next three, six, nine months. We’re going to do that hard.”
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