Patel Says FBI Is Moving Out of Washington Headquarters

The FBI chief also said that some 1,500 employees will be relocated elsewhere.

FBI Director Kash Patel on Friday morning confirmed that the FBI is leaving its Washington headquarters, known as the J. Edgar Hoover Building, due to safety reasons, and that about 1,500 FBI employees will be relocated to locations around the United States.

Patel made the announcement during an interview with Fox News alongside FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.

โ€œI didnโ€™t know I was going to do this, but Iโ€™m going to announce it on your show anyway: This FBI is leaving the Hoover Building,โ€ Patel said. โ€œBecause this building is unsafe for our workforce. We want the American men and women to know, if youโ€™re going to come work at the premier law enforcement agency in the world, weโ€™re going to give you a building thatโ€™s commensurate with that, and thatโ€™s not this place.โ€

The FBI also said he wants to lower the number of FBI employees in Washington and move them to work in other jurisdictions.

โ€œLook, the FBI has 38,000 when weโ€™re fully manned, which weโ€™re not,โ€ Patel told Fox News on Friday. โ€œIn the national capital region, in the 50-mile radius around Washington, D.C., there were 11,000 FBI employees. Thatโ€™s like a third of the workforce. A third of the crime doesnโ€™t happen here, so weโ€™re taking 1,500 of those folks and moving them out.โ€

Patel said that every state will be getting more FBI agents because it will โ€œinspire folks in America to become intel analysts and agents and say, โ€˜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.โ€™โ€

โ€œIn the next three, six, [and] nine months, weโ€™re going to be doing that hard,โ€ he said.

Patel did not provide more details regarding the safety concerns around the Hoover building.

A report released in 2011 by the Government Accountability Office said the FBIโ€™s Hoover building was in need of major repairs and that its โ€œoriginal design is inefficient,โ€ which means it is โ€œdifficult to reconfigure space to promote staff collaboration.โ€

Byย Jack Phillips

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