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director of the fbi Kashi Patel The FBI will permanently close the Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C., it was announced on Friday, after previously promising to turn it into a “deep state museum.”
Patel wrote on
Planning for the building, named after the first dean, began in 1962 and was officially dedicated by the president Gerald Ford 1975.
Patel’s post continued:
When we arrive, taxpayers are about to foot the bill for nearly $5 billion in new headquarters that won’t open until 2035. We canceled the plan. Instead, we chose the existing Reagan Building, saving billions of dollars and allowing the transition to begin immediately, with required security and infrastructure upgrades already underway. Once completed, most of the FBI headquarters staff will move in and the remainder will continue working to keep additional manpower on site.
This decision puts resources where they belong: defending our country, combating violent crime, and protecting our national security. It provides today’s FBI workers with better tools at a fraction of the cost.
When he was a podcaster, before Donald Trump tapped him to lead the FBI, Patel claimed the bureau’s “footprint” was too big.
In 2023, Patel told podcaster Shawn Ryan: “I would close the FBI Hoover Building on day one… and reopen it the next day as a museum of the deep state. “I would take the 7,000 people who work in that building and send them across the United States to hunt down criminals… What do you need 7,000 people there for?
Patel has been criticized for spending taxpayer money recklessly in other ways. This week, MS NOW reported that Patel had ordered a fleet of four luxury armored BMWs to replace the Chevrolet Suburbans typically driven by the bureau. He was also criticized for repeatedly flying on FBI planes for personal “excursions” with his girlfriend, arguing “I have the right to a private life.”
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