The FBI director told Fox News the agents need to go fight crime outside of Washington -- and that the J. Edgar Hoover building is \

FBI Director Kash Patel announced in a Fox News broadcast Friday that he’s redeploying 1,500 FBI agents, analysts and other personnel from Washington to posts throughout the country, and shutting down the bureau’s storied headquarters because it is “unsafe for our workforce.”

Patel has talked frequently about moving FBI personnel out of the nation’s capital and even shutting down the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building and making it into some form of a “deep state” museum.

But his comments to Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo appear to be the most definitive to date in terms of his plans for the FBI and the building named after the bureau’s longest-serving director.

  • iknowitwheniseeit
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    3 days ago

    Like firing black people, women, and LGBT+ folks from the military, it’s one more step to ensuring that when Republicans order political violence there will be nobody who refuses.