Patel: FBI Leaving Hoover Building, Transferring Agents

FBI Director Kash Patel has confirmed that the bureau will leave its headquarters in the J. Edgar Hoover Building in downtown Washington D.C. and transfer 1,500 employees to other locations around the United States.

Patel said the Hoover Building is being vacated as it is “unsafe,” adding that the agency does not deserve to work in the aging structure, reports The New York Post Friday.

“We want the American men and women to know if you’re going to come work at the premier law enforcement agency in the world, we’re going to give you a building that’s commensurate with that, and that’s not this place,” he told Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo in an interview for her Fox News program “Sunday Morning Futures.”

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