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Planned New FBI HQ Is Twice the Size of the Pentagon
American Greatness ^ | 1 Feb, 2023 | J. Michael Waller

Posted on 02/02/2023 4:44:24 AM PST by MtnClimber

The GOP House can stop the project and rein in a runaway bureau.

The federal government is proceeding with plans to build a new FBI headquarters complex twice the size of the Pentagon building.

Riveted into the colossal new project are woke regulations to ensure that the FBI center will comply with diversity, equity, LGBTQ+, and climate change political goals.

The plan, unveiled last September, has received little attention. For years the FBI has sought to vacate its present headquarters, a brutalist concrete bunker on stilts and occupying two city blocks between the White House and the Capitol.

Plans for the new FBI headquarters specify that it will be built on one of three sites in suburban Virginia and Maryland. Those sites are large parcels of 58, 61, and 80 acres.

That means, at minimum, the new FBI headquarters complex would be twice the size of the Pentagon building. Covering about 29 acres plus a five-acre courtyard, the Pentagon, until recently, was the largest office building on earth.

The Kremlin in Moscow —a walled fortress containing the administrative offices of the Russian central government, the official presidential residence, massive auditoriums, an arsenal, a museum, four palaces, three cathedrals and several churches—is just over 66 acres in area.

The General Services Administration, which administers federal properties, has selected the three sites. The 58-acre property in Springfield, Virginia, GSA says, is “federally owned land under the jurisdiction, custody, and control of GSA.”

The government would have to buy or lease either of the two properties available in Maryland. The State of Maryland and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority own the 61-acre site in Greenbelt. The 80-acre parcel is the former Landover Mall, which is privately owned.

GSA set out five criteria for choosing the property: FBI mission requirement; transportation access for FBI personnel; site development flexibility, which includes the suitability of the actual property and the earliest time construction could begin; promoting sustainable siting and advancing equity; and cost.

Of those five criteria, cost to the taxpayer is viewed as least important. The equity criterion, to comply with diversity and climate-change executive orders signed by Joe Biden, is weighted as 50 percent more important than the cost.

The site, design, and structure of the new FBI headquarters must “advance racial equity and support for underserved communities through the Federal Government,” GSA says, citing Executive Orders 13985 and 14057. The FBI complex must be a “sustainable location” to “strengthen the vitality and livability of the communities” in the area, according to GSA.

On his first day as president, Biden signed Executive Order 13985 as part of what he called “an ambitious whole-of-government equity agenda.”

The executive order defines “equity” as “the consistent and systematic fair, just, and impartial treatment of all individuals, including individuals who belong to underserved communities that have been denied such treatment, such as Black, Latino, and Indigenous and Native American persons, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and other persons of color; members of religious minorities; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) persons,” and so on.

That is one of the main factors driving the location of the new, double-Pentagon-sized FBI headquarters.

Biden signed the other part of the equity criterion, Executive Order 14057, in December 2021 to push his climate change agenda. That order directs that it is the policy of the federal government to “create and sustain . . . well-paying union jobs” and a range of other issues, including to “advance environmental justice.”

Executive orders are presidential decrees. They do not have the force of law.

The new FBI complex, under EO 14057, would be part of a push to achieve a range of ambitious green energy and emissions goals plus “climate resilient infrastructure and operations” for “a climate- and sustainability-focused Federal workforce.”

That would require a political control structure to implement. Section 401 of the executive order addresses that, calling for training and indoctrinating all federal personnel, including FBI agents, “to effectively apply sustainability, climate adaptation, and environmental stewardship across disciplines and functions.”

Section 402, “Incorporating Environmental Justice,” shows the politicization objective. The new FBI headquarters “shall address actions taken to advance environmental justice” under this section.

Section 403 takes it further, turning federal employees, in this case FBI special agents and other personnel, into political activists on and off the job. It would pair the FBI with “public, private, and non-profit sectors and labor unions and worker organizations” to promote environmental justice.

All this activity, under Section 501 of the executive order, would be overseen by a political commissar titled Federal Chief Sustainability Officer, appointed by the president.

The House Still Has Time to Stop It

With the FBI leadership refusing to answer questions from Congress about internal politicization, illegal targeting of conservatives, and whether or not any FBI agents or assets committed criminal acts of violence at the Capitol in January 2001, sentiment is building to pressure the FBI to come clean.

All lawmakers who voted for the Fiscal Year 2023 omnibus spending bill voted to fund the start of the new FBI headquarters.

Meanwhile, the FBI says it needs to keep a substantial space in downtown Washington, D.C., to stay close to the Justice Department that’s presently across the street.

The House can exercise power of the purse to stop this semi-stealth FBI expansion and force the bureau to cooperate fully with Congress. How?

First, allow no funds to purchase, lease, or develop land not presently owned by the federal government. That would eliminate the two proposed sites in Maryland.

Second, allow no funds to design, develop, or construct federal property bound to diversity, equity, and inclusion agendas or any programs that promote or enforce cultural Marxism with tax dollars.

Third, conduct lengthy, open hearings and a broad public debate about why the FBI needs a headquarters superplex that’s twice the size, or more, of the Pentagon.

Finally, don’t appropriate or authorize a penny until the FBI cooperates fully with Congress to identify and hold individuals accountable for political abuses of power and criminal activity within the bureau. It’s as simple as that.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: 1984; climatechange; communism; crookedbureaucrats; crookedcops; crookedlawyers; crookedpoliticians; defundthegestapo; diversity; dojiscrookcentral; donutwatch; equity; fbi; fbincitement; fbinstigation; headquarters; internalsecurity; lgbtq; maryland; policesate; politicalpolice; secretpolice; virginia; woke
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To: MtnClimber
Finally, don’t appropriate or authorize a penny until the FBI cooperates fully with Congress to identify and hold individuals accountable for political abuses of power and criminal activity within the bureau.

Typical.

Make a good point, then give it all back.

Sentence should end after the word "penny".

21 posted on 02/02/2023 5:53:27 AM PST by Jim Noble (You have sat too long for any good you have been doing)
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To: MtnClimber

They need a bigger building because we are the bigger enemy.


22 posted on 02/02/2023 5:54:20 AM PST by null and void (Stupid but believable? Probably satire. Too stupid to believe? Probably reality here in clown world!)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Stolen.

New tagline.


23 posted on 02/02/2023 5:57:28 AM PST by null and void (You can’t have a police state without a state police.)
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To: hinckley buzzard
You can’t have a police state without state police.

They have lots of things planned for us.

24 posted on 02/02/2023 6:02:10 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: ClearCase_guy
"Now we need an even bigger building for an even greater task: The FBI must defeat America."

Yes, the only thing the American government fears is the American people.. They must be put down.!

25 posted on 02/02/2023 6:07:47 AM PST by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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To: MtnClimber

only the UN is more useless than The GOP House


26 posted on 02/02/2023 6:28:07 AM PST by wny
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To: MtnClimber

Big Brother gettin’ bigger


27 posted on 02/02/2023 6:28:22 AM PST by mykroar (what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how. - J0eStalin)
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To: MtnClimber

This article is more than a bit misleading. The Pentagon building itself covers 28.7 acres of an 1100-acre site, and has a floor area of about 149.2 acres. For a new FBI complex to be twice that size, it would have to be built on the entire 58-acre parcel of land (no parking or other open space), with about half the construction being two-story and the rest three-story. Currently about 26,000 people work at the Pentagon and 7,300 at FBI headquarters in Washington, so there would be plenty of room for more personnel in the new FBI complex.


28 posted on 02/02/2023 7:00:21 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: MtnClimber

A government saying it is going to create or enforce Equity is implementing communism — end of story.


29 posted on 02/02/2023 7:01:09 AM PST by KC Burke
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To: KC Burke

Boy, I get so irritated by news of this sort. Stupid.


30 posted on 02/02/2023 7:04:46 AM PST by Bodega (Ready to secede now before it's too late.)
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To: MtnClimber

Future Ministry of Truth.


31 posted on 02/02/2023 7:14:00 AM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

I made a mistake. Twice the floor area of the Pentagon would be five-story construction over the 58 acres. Forgot to multiply by two.


32 posted on 02/02/2023 7:23:32 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: MtnClimber

The American people are the biggest enemy of the District of Criminals.


33 posted on 02/02/2023 7:52:16 AM PST by Tom Tetroxide
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To: MtnClimber

It probably doesn’t mean the closing of Gestapo field offices around the country.

I think some Americans would like the FIB far away from their journey of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness..


34 posted on 02/02/2023 8:04:05 AM PST by delchiante
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To: MtnClimber

Bttt.

5.56mm


35 posted on 02/02/2023 8:07:01 AM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go.)
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To: MtnClimber

It would only make sense IF they were consolidating the HQ and the training facilities currently located @ Quantico into a single location.

Otherwise it’s just plain stupid.


36 posted on 02/02/2023 8:12:34 AM PST by 2CAVTrooper (One Nation, Under Fraud Completely Visible, With Spying and Lying To All.)
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To: MtnClimber

Stealth FBI expansion

Feel safer now?.


37 posted on 02/02/2023 8:31:45 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: MtnClimber
It's TIME to #DownSize_DC!

Restore the Constitution!Size DC!

38 posted on 02/02/2023 8:55:11 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: MtnClimber

Why not? They are running the country after all.


39 posted on 02/02/2023 9:01:07 AM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: MtnClimber

This was part of the $1.7T omnibus bill passed in December. Merry Christmas.


40 posted on 02/02/2023 9:38:27 AM PST by lurk (u)
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