FBI Director Kash Patel announced that he will be shutting down the agency’s headquarters.
Patel told Maria Bartiromo of “Sunday Morning Futures” that the “FBI is 38,000 when we’re fully manned, which we’re not. In the National Capital Region, in the 50-mile radius around Washington, DC, 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.”
“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 out into the country to do it,'” he added. “That’s what we’re doing in the next three, six, nine months, we’re going to do that hard.”
“This FBI is leaving the Hoover building because this building is unsafe for our workforce,” Patel declared, “and 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.”
The FBI’s website describes the functions of its headquarters as “setting the priorities and policies” of the Bureau, centralizing and coordinating tasks at its highest levels, fighting against terrorism, providing support to divisions and overseas offices, and leading during times of crisis or in emergencies.
