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Posted on 05/19/2025 5:03:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The long-overdue shuttering of the FBI’s scandal-scarred Washington headquarters signals not just a change of address, but a necessary exile of the agency’s most politically corrupted core.
Current FBI Director Kash Patel is closing down the agency’s Washington, DC, mothership office and moving at least 1,500 employees out of the DC area to regional offices.
The decision was not just Patel’s.
During the Biden Administration, it was determined that the 50-year-old Hoover building headquarters was structurally decrepit. More germanely, no prior FBI director had ever explained why nearly a third of the FBI workforce was centered in offices in Washington, far from where most of the serious crime in America occurs.
The news is welcome for reasons well beyond the safety of agents in an apparently unsafe headquarters.
It is no exaggeration to state that most of the FBI scandals of the last decade were born in the Hoover building headquarters, suggesting that the agency had long become top-heavy, politically weaponized, and deeply embedded in and compromised by the Washington apparat.
Former FBI Director, later appointed as special counsel, Robert Mueller ran a media-driven, 20-month, 40-million-dollar legal circus chasing the unicorn of “Russian collusion.” His left-wing legal team—replete with political conflicts of interest and scrubbed cell phones—was dubbed by the obsequious, giddy left-wing media as the “army,” “untouchables,” “all-stars,” “dream team,” and “hunter-killer teams.”
When called to testify about his investigation that had found no Russian-Trump collusion, Mueller implausibly denied any knowledge of the Steele dossier or FusionGPS. Yet they were arguably the very catalysts for his own special counsel appointment.
Two of his Washington FBI investigators were fired—the amorous Peter Strzok and Lisa Page—who had co-texted a deep personal antipathy toward Trump, the object of their investigations, and a desire to see him not become president,
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VDH ping
One could argue otherwise.
BTTT
I note that VDH, in his concise litany of FBI partisan corruption, chose to omit the embeds in the Capitol riot of January 6.
Given the propensity of FBI agents to commit crimes, crime will at least be wherever the FBI goes.
Remember Garland Texas, the draw-Muhammed art exhibit which was the site of an attempted mass shooting? Why did the FBI escort the shooters?
>> One could argue otherwise.
LOL. Yeah, but the concept is that the FBI FIGHTs crime, not PARTICIPATEs in it!
The news is welcome to those of us concerned about the safety of our Republic.
I think the DOGE results demonstrate that DC is the center of a huge government run fraud, grift and protection racket.
If the people are moving, the corruption is moving. Nothing changes.
I feel any organization the touches Washington turns corrupt.
Well, actually, most of the serious crime is committed in DC, but the FBI is prohibited from investigating the government.
Like China let its infected citizens fly around the world. Moving the rot doesn’t fix the rot. Kash is ineffective at best and complicit at worst. All friggen talk. Nobody wants these azzholes near them.
Who investigates the investigators. Corruption abounds.
....and neither will the employees.....ALL of them!
He speaks of headquarters figuratively, but it’s also literally true. The FBI hq is a prime example of soulless “brutalist” architecture. I was just there 2 weeks ago. If possible it looks even more hideous than my prior times in DC
IIRC, its was Mueller and his top echelon that decided all investigations would be managed and controlled in D.C., and did away the local command and control from the field offices.
This allowed the director to focus the full resources on whatever they determined were the threats.
The list of ethical, moral, and legal misadventures at the top-heavy Washington FBI office could be easily expanded.
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American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
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That's funny, I do not remember all the cameras when CNN et al announced that almost no classified documents were found.
Oh, they never made that announcement?
Hmm.
Good Riddance Hoover building.
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