Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel said he was shutting down the bureau’s offices in Washington, D.C., and relocating 1,500 FBI employees to other offices.
Patel made the announcement during an interview with Maria Bartiromo on the “Sunday Morning Futures” show. He explained in a released preview video that having so much of the bureau’s workforce in the capital did not make sense.
‘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.’
“This FBI is leaving the Hoover Building because this building is unsafe for our workforce,” said Patel.
The iconic headquarters of the FBI was first proposed in 1939,
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