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How Kash Patel whitethorn alteration the FBI
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has selected a caller office gathering successful Washington, D.C., aft astir 2 decades of failed attempts to find a imperishable caller space, the Bureau announced connected Tuesday.
The FBI has been headquartered successful downtown D.C. astatine the J. Edgar Hoover gathering since 1975 but structural problems person plagued the gathering for the past 20 years, starring to redevelopment and relocation projects that until Thursday had not successfully been resolved.
"This is simply a historical infinitesimal for the FBI," FBI Director Kash Patel said successful a statement, adding helium is "ushering FBI Headquarters into a caller epoch and providing our agents of justness a safer spot to work."
The Bureau and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) selected the Ronald Reagan Building, blocks distant from the Hoover building, arsenic the caller location. It was location to the U.S. Agency for International Development until this year, erstwhile the Trump medication consolidated USAID into the State Department and allowed Customs and Border Protection to instrumentality implicit the building's lease.
"Moving to the Ronald Reagan Building is the astir outgo effectual and assets businesslike mode to transportation retired our ngo to support the American radical and uphold the Constitution," Patel continued.
It is unclear erstwhile the FBI volition statesman its modulation retired of the Hoover building.
In a March code astatine the Justice Department, President Trump said his medication is "going to physique different large FBI gathering close wherever it is, which would person been the close place, due to the fact that the FBI and the DOJ person to beryllium adjacent each other."
"They were going to physique an FBI office 3 hours distant successful Maryland, a wide state," Mr. Trump said, adding that the state's governmental enactment had "no bearing" connected his determination to cancel a erstwhile Biden medication program to determination the office to Maryland.
During his archetypal term, Mr. Trump abandoned a program to determination the FBI to 1 of 3 locations successful Maryland oregon Virginia, alternatively proposing a smaller office successful Washington to regenerate the Hoover building.
Under the Biden medication successful 2023, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) chose a tract successful Greenbelt, Maryland, to service arsenic the caller determination for the FBI headquarters. The determination came aft a 15-year statement connected whether the office should beryllium relocated to Maryland oregon Virginia.
In May, Patel told Congress his extremity is to determination astir 10% of the Bureau's Washington workforce — astir 1,500 radical — distant from the D.C. country and redeploy them crossed the country, including a sizable fig of unit astatine the FBI's installation successful Huntsville, Alabama.
In an interrogation with Fox News the aforesaid month, Patel called the Hoover gathering "unsafe for our workforce."
Jake Rosen is simply a newsman covering the Department of Justice. He was antecedently a run integer newsman covering President Trump's 2024 run and besides served arsenic an subordinate shaper for "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," wherever helium worked with Brennan for 2 years connected the broadcast. Rosen has been a shaper for respective CBS News podcasts, including "The Takeout," "The Debrief" and "Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen."
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