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"This FBI is leaving the [J. Edgar] Hoover Building because this building is unsafe for our workforce," Patel told Fox Business Network anchor Maria Bartiromo in an interview set to air on Fox News Channel's "Sunday Morning Futures."
"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 chief added.
© J. Scott Applewhite/APFBI Director Kash Patel
He also did not share a timeframe for the move or the bureau's new headquarters location.
The Hoover Building was completed in 1975 after more than a decade of construction and occupies a block of prime real estate — prompting President Trump to muse about redevelopment for years.
In 2013, before entering politics, the now-78-year-old considered acquiring it from the government for a private project in exchange for building a new FBI office elsewhere.
In 2018, during his first presidential term, Trump made clear he loathed the edifice and would be glad to see it go.
© Christopher SadowskiFBI headquarters in Washington, DC.
Trump hinted in March of this year that his administration was "going to build another big FBI building right where it is, which would have been the right place, because the FBI and the DOJ have to be near each other."
At the same time, Trump blocked a Biden-era plan to move the headquarters to Greenbelt, Md., after an inspector general's report faulted the selection process, which passed over a rival site in Springfield, Va.
A three-person selection panel had picked the Springfield site, but were overruled by a General Services Administration official who formerly worked for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), which owned the Greenbelt site
"Look, the FBI is 38,000 when we are fully manned, which we are 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," Patel told Bartiromo.
"So we are taking 1,500 of those folks and moving them out. Every state is getting a plus-up [supplemental supply of agents]. 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 three, six, nine months we're going to be doing that hard."
Then they can more conveniently obstruct justice, destroy evidence, obfuscate local investigations, undermine democracy, trample the Constitution, and enforce their tyranny all over the country more efficiently. Neat. I hope they pick nice curtains for their new offices. They sure earned it.
Like it or not, unconstitutionally and illegally, the establishment of a militarized national police force is nearly complete, and soon the perverts in DC will be able to force their will on anyone over anything. The people are generally applauding its installment in the name of vengeance against the liberals, which IMO was always the plan; create a problem (make liberals degenerate, destructive retards), then be the solution (necessitate Nazi-super-cops to clean up the violent and disastrous societal mess they created themselves for this purpose in DC). Wash, rinse, repeat.
The end result is a police state, and an open-air prison with varying degrees of class privilege or squalor; one big institution, likely governed by corporations who already routinely and mundanely ignore your "rights." It all seems very predictable, and much of this is already a reality all over the world, including here in the USA.
We already spend the lion's share of our life devoid of "rights" under the roof of this corporation or that, at school, at work, or in any private business shopping or dinning. None of those places govern according to the US Constitution, but rather store or company policies. I have no idea what "rights" people think they have. I see "privileges, and that is all...test one of your "rights" where it might make a difference, if you think you have any, and you will see that they are instead privileges approved or denied by your rulers at their discretion.
When the democrats come back into control, I'm sure this new FBI invasion of your state will make gun confiscation, and whatever other ideas they have in DC, much easier to implement and assert by force, regardless of what you or your local sheriff may have to say about it. They will be out gunned and undermanned, and so will you.
Trump reforming and improving the US military standards, drastically increasing its budget, increasing the presence of a federal police force across the nation, his cops (ICE) going door to door arresting undesirables and throwing them into a prison in La-la Land far across the distant horizon, throwing dissenting judges in jail, and ruling by diktat might seem neat to some people now, because it is the liberals and illegal immigrants getting the shaft of the Don's magic pen, but the democrats will get their turn at the big desk eventually. Try to keep a smile on your face then.
IMO, the federal government is no friend of mine, yours, or anybody else's. It will always be the enemy of the people, regardless of who is in the White House. Nothing could be worse than seeing it strengthened and spread heavier across the USA.
Sure, maybe the current president will do good things with his new elastic super-powers that stretch beyond normal convention (I'm enjoying some of it, myself), but this isn't our final destination. It's just another dance-step towards an unavoidable dystopia.
...or, maybe Space Jesus will save us.