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.
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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