Posted on May 18, 2025
Patel Says FBI Is Moving Out of Washington Headquarters
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FBI Director Kash Patel on Friday morning confirmed that the FBI is leaving its Washington headquarters, known as the J. Edgar Hoover Building, due to safety reasons, and that about 1,500 FBI employees will be relocated to locations around the United States.
Patel made the announcement during an interview with Fox News alongside FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.
“I didn’t know I was going to do this, but I’m going to announce it on your show anyway: This FBI is leaving the Hoover Building,” Patel said. “Because this building is unsafe for our workforce. 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.”
Patel made the announcement during an interview with Fox News alongside FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.
“I didn’t know I was going to do this, but I’m going to announce it on your show anyway: This FBI is leaving the Hoover Building,” Patel said. “Because this building is unsafe for our workforce. 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.”
Patel Says FBI Is Moving Out of Washington Headquarters
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Why on earth did they need 1500 agents in DC? The federal government has gotten bloated and lazy.
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COL Randall Cudworth
For full context (which is mentioned in the article), the move of the Hoover building has been in the works for over 20 years. This might be related to, but isn't because of that effort.
According to FEDSCOPE and the FBI budget submissions for FY2025, the agency employs about 38,000 personnel of which 13,600 are special agents, 3,300 are intelligence analysts and over 20,000 are professional staff. Those personnel are located in the headquarters, 56 field officers and over 350 satellite locations across the United States.
Approximately 11,000 of those individuals are assigned to the FBI Headquarters and located within the NCR at the Hoover building as well as ~40 other GSA leased spaces in the NCR. The 11k does not include the more than 1,680 special agents and professional staff (about a 50/50 split) assigned to the Washington Field Office which covers the District of Columbia and 7 counties in Northern Virginia (about 3.2 million people).
The 1,500 personnel that the FBI Director is referring to are part of the 11,000 personnel assigned to the Headquarters. Keep in mind that being assigned to the FBI Headquarters does not mean you are a some paper-pushing admin taking up space (although I'm sure there are a number of those, just as with any bureaucratic organization) as personnel assigned to the FBI Headquarters include everything from some of the national level crime labs and cyber security division to the offices doing Congressional liaison and and internal compliance (i.e. Office of the IG, internal affairs/professional ethics, etc.).
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* FEDSCOPE - https://www.fedscope.opm.gov/
* FBI 2025 Budget comments by FBI Director - https://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches-and-testimony/a-review-of-the-president-s-fiscal-year-2025-budget-request-for-the-federal-bureau-of-investigation
* https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/fbi-headquarters
According to FEDSCOPE and the FBI budget submissions for FY2025, the agency employs about 38,000 personnel of which 13,600 are special agents, 3,300 are intelligence analysts and over 20,000 are professional staff. Those personnel are located in the headquarters, 56 field officers and over 350 satellite locations across the United States.
Approximately 11,000 of those individuals are assigned to the FBI Headquarters and located within the NCR at the Hoover building as well as ~40 other GSA leased spaces in the NCR. The 11k does not include the more than 1,680 special agents and professional staff (about a 50/50 split) assigned to the Washington Field Office which covers the District of Columbia and 7 counties in Northern Virginia (about 3.2 million people).
The 1,500 personnel that the FBI Director is referring to are part of the 11,000 personnel assigned to the Headquarters. Keep in mind that being assigned to the FBI Headquarters does not mean you are a some paper-pushing admin taking up space (although I'm sure there are a number of those, just as with any bureaucratic organization) as personnel assigned to the FBI Headquarters include everything from some of the national level crime labs and cyber security division to the offices doing Congressional liaison and and internal compliance (i.e. Office of the IG, internal affairs/professional ethics, etc.).
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* FEDSCOPE - https://www.fedscope.opm.gov/
* FBI 2025 Budget comments by FBI Director - https://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches-and-testimony/a-review-of-the-president-s-fiscal-year-2025-budget-request-for-the-federal-bureau-of-investigation
* https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/fbi-headquarters
Welcome to opm.gov - FedScope - Federal Workforce Data
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MAJ Byron Oyler
SGM Jeff Mccloud - Reading comprehension my friend. I made a general comment about the government in general being bloated and lazy. Just because you did not see it or hear about it, I do frequently. I stopped responding to your comments becaue you are textbook anti-Trump. If the Biden administration was involved here, all your comments would be positive.
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LTC Trent Klug
Maybe most aren't, but I know of one man, a coworker, who was indicted due to lazy agents. His name, a very common one, came up in a money for contraband case at our prison. His name appeared on a money order that was cashed to pay the dirty staff member. The dirty staff member and the other staff were very publicly indicted. The clean staff member was off work without pay for over a year.
When his lawyer received the evidence through the discovery process, they saw the money order. So far the FBI looks okay right?
The place that cashed the money order also required an ID. They made a copy of the ID. The person was black. The staff member with the same name was white.
The FBI had that information for a YEAR. More than several agents accessed that information several times during that period and no one said 'huh', or 'we got the wrong guy'.
So yes, there are lazy agents.
When his lawyer received the evidence through the discovery process, they saw the money order. So far the FBI looks okay right?
The place that cashed the money order also required an ID. They made a copy of the ID. The person was black. The staff member with the same name was white.
The FBI had that information for a YEAR. More than several agents accessed that information several times during that period and no one said 'huh', or 'we got the wrong guy'.
So yes, there are lazy agents.
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LTC Matthew Schlosser
It's not 1500 agents in DC. 1500 is just the number he's moving out of DC. 11,000 FBI employees, fully one third of the Bureau, work in DC.
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