Kash Patel Moving FBI Out of Hoover Building Because It’s ‘Unsafe’
“…but 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.”
FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo that he’s moving the agency out of the Hoover building.
It shocked Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino!
The interview with Patel and Bongino will air on Sunday. From the clip:
PATEL: Look, the FBI is 38,000 when we’re fully manned, which we’re not. In the national capital region, in the 50 miles 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. And that’s what they were doing. In the next three, six, nine months, we’re going to do that hard.
And I didn’t know that I was going to do this, but I’m going to announce it on your show. Anyway, this FBI is leaving the Hoover building because this building is unsafe for our workforce. And we want the workforce…
BONGINO: You gave up a big nugget.
PATEL: …but 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.
🔥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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The Hoover building is ugly, too, just like every other government building in DC.
I cannot wait to hear the Democrats’ response to Patel’s announcement.
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They should implode the Hoover Building on PayforView and use the proceeds to retire part of the debt.
Well, at least that’s something the Democrats can’t easily reverse.
Paraphrasing Casa Blanca, “We’ll always have Hawaiian judges…!”
Ooh, maybe, but maybe not…
Nada. Hold a lottery and let the winner push the plunger. Use the money raised to finish the wall and set up more deportation planes
THAT is even better. We can combine both your suggestion and mine for a twofer
Get out of DC.
“premiere law enforcement agency”?
I almost really DID “roflmao”!
Please, Kash. All the FBI is, is a bunch of troublemakers doing the bidding of whoever is in the white house. Nothing more.
Well he’s hardly going to say it’s shit isn’t he 😂
Mostly agree. They do the bidding when a D is in the White House.
I always looked at the FBI with a jaundiced eye. Rheum with a view so to speak. This was because of J. Edgar Hoover and this was long before the cross-dressing scandals. I just did not trust or like the man.
The final straw came when I read about them providing tapes from MLK’s bugged hotel rooms so that LBJ could… uhm, err…(how to phrase this…) be entertained listening to King’s reproductive gymnastics.
Hoover was all about the D
Paul- Was that the “D” as in “d*ck” or the “D” as in “dress”?
Dirt. Dirt on people for his extensive collection of dossiers.
Dossiers was how Hoover stayed in office for so long.
I recall the news coverage when that… person died. There was of course much speechifying on the house and senate floors about his contributions to the country blargle blargle blah blah.
For the life of me I can’t recall which one said it, but one legislator, at his time to speak, simply said, “Thank God”.
Grizz- was never anything else.
Wut? The Hoover Building opened in the mid 1970s. What could possibly be ‘unsafe’ about a building that isn’t even 50-years old yet? The Carabinieri operate out of compound of buildings, some dating to the 19th century. Scotland Yard (the NEW one) was built before WWII. Building new federal buildings every 50-years is an extravagance a country $35T in debt simply can’t afford. Suck it up, cupcakes.
One would think they were sports stadia no longer good enough for sports royalty. As far as I’m concerned, the FBI could work out of a building with old gray metal desks, wire frame, wastebaskets, and rotary telephone on their desks.
Maybe he was referring to WHERE the building is rather than it’s actual build. DC could get dangerous should times get interesting.
Just a thought.
Scatter the agents across all states and build a smaller headquarters outside of DC.
Just put it in the Anacostia district of DC.
They already did. Huntsville. There were quasi plans to move a lot there a few years back. But it never happened.
I can’t argue with him there. The Hoover building is old and actually shedding sizable lumps of concrete on passers-by. The replacement has been delayed for years since pre-Obama times, I believe. The big problem (as always with Federal agencies) is they want the replacement to be ten times the size of the original, done in marble and alabaster, with every possible digital and laser enhancement.
As good as the FIB is, they need to be sent to Harrison Arkansas, in an office in a strip mall.
Pretty mean thing to do to Harrison, let alone Arkysaw.
The building also has rats. 1000s of rats.
Every federal building in DC (well, maybe not NIH/CDC) has rats. I would see a rat every other day in corridors in the Pentagon. You’d walk out the River Entrance (posh, formal entrance by the SecDef office) and see rat families happily playing in the shrubbery beside the staircase. The huge computer room where I worked (three football fields) had so many rats under the raised flooring that a feral cat somehow found its own way under there from outside and took up residence. Bit one of our engineers, too, sent him in for a rabies series. Guy always traced cables by the serial numbers at both ends from then on.
Some people lack imagination. They are sooooo literal.
I was thinking the same kind of rats you are, but having done some work in various DC locations before I retired… yes. The place IS infested with rodent-type rats.
The war stories I have about real rats are just better than the others.
To call FIB agents rats is an insult to rats. But the FIB does in fact infest that building.
With perfect marble — what they call perfecto. And camels, camels like we haven’t seen in a long time.
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I thought that building went up in the 1960s. That is not all that old for a building. Systems might need upgrades and the like, but other office buildings are approaching or have surpassed 100 years and are still in one piece. Even government ones built with kickbacks and corner cutting.
Kash is full of it. The building is safe, it just isn’t luxurious. If this is a pretext for kicking them out of DC fine, otherwise they can suck it.
The building is designed for how people worked in the 1960s, It isn’t very modular, and doesn’t have easy access for the electrical and other IT wiring that a modern space needs.
Also, lets not forget that all the people in the National Capitol Regions draw a significant pay premium for having to live in the area. If there isn’t a bonified mission reason for being in the DC area (interaction with Congress or other parts of the executive branch), then the people can literally be anywhere else in the US. All of the USD departments and agencies need to be limited to a maximum of 1000 people within 50 miles of the DC NCR limit.
The buildings that surpass 100 years old were built back when buildings were built to last 100+ years. That’s not what they were doing from 1960 on.
True. The USDA building in DC is a good example. From what I’ve been told, it was designed by a guy who built Federal prisons, and from what I saw inside, I believe it. Our old office at home was a similar piece of work. It used to be the post office, and I believe it could shrug off a nuclear blast at under a mile. I had to run cables in it. The walls were penitentiary brick, and ate drill bits like cheerios. Tall ceilings with suspended ceilings underneath, and another layer of suspended ceiling under that. Three layers with pigeon poop on the top (no idea where the hole is). The big ‘sorting room’ was walled off, but it had an external balcony up on the next floor with eye-slot peepholes so the supervisor could stalk around and keep an eye on the sorters. The HVAC had no intelligence to it. Summer, it blasted cold air everywhere to the point where we blocked off vents. Winter, we could have worn shorts. Good times.
Kash is correct. There is no reason 30% of a law enforcement agency needs to be in DC. Send them to the states where they are needed.
9500 in DC is still 25% of the workforce. I’d prefer they all be fired and barred from working in law enforcement in any capacity because they’re all a bunch of servile thugs.
Pretty mean thing to do to Harrison, let alone Arkysaw.
Belay my last; that was a comment for another place.
What’s the point of having 30 percent of your workforce in DC if they’re not gonna arrest the crooks in Congress?
Kash is really a drama queen, like Bondi
One thing I wonder about is the number of people at FBI headquarters who are eligible for (early or regular) retirement, and how many of them would prefer that to moving to, say, Missouri, Iowa, or Oakland California.
East St. Louis IL is picturesque this time of year…
No! Don’t put them anywhere where they’ll end up running backup for a failed blue city.
I was more referring to the surroundings they would have. Especially after dark. And, no boutique restaurants or trendy night spots.
If it’s to smaller field offices around the country, focusing on high crime areas, fine. If he wants to build a new building, let him crowdfund it because in the words of Linda McMahon, grants will not be provided.
Hopefully, he can flip the Hoover Building for a big portion of those funds.
Did Kash happen to mention exactly what town in Nebraska would be home to the new FBI HQ?
as long as the use rnc money donated to them
or maybe qatar can lend them one
START ARRESTING LEFTY COMMUNISTS who are tearing apart our country
Move the HQ to Memphis. The additional law enforcement would help clean up that town and the air traffic is tied into every sizable airport in the nation.
“…and the air traffic is tied into every sizable airport in the nation”
If you fit into a FedEx shipping box.
When I was last there, you could shoot a cannon through the terminal buildings and not hit anyone.
Read this long ago, Comey wanted a new Eff Bee Eye building and thought it should be named after himself.
I find it fitting that what really amounts to a gestapo is in a Brutalist School-design of building, and named after the man who really was the master puppeteer in this country.
“Geheime Staatspolizei” in German, which translates to “Secret State Police”.
Speaking for myself, I’d like the see the entire agency disbanded, and all of the agents blocked from joining anything that replaces it. They have destroyed lives (Richard Jewell comes to mind), so let theirs be destroyed.
I don’t care if they have to work out of a cardboard box in the road.
In Minot North Dakota
They already have a purgatory office for agents that didn’t “obey”. Butte Montana.
TGG: You mean they don’t have an office at Barrow, Alaska?
Hoover Building is a damned ugly concrete monstrosity. Move the FBI to the central part of the country, say Kansas, Alabama (Huntsville would be nice), or finally just decentralize the vast bulk of it to field offices with the exception of leadership and the required training centers and field operations labs, etc and those could be right at Quantico where everything else is.
Quantico still too close to DC. In five years, new fedguv workers will be buying their homes there and commuting,