Posted on 02/21/2025 4:49:50 PM PST by CFW
FBI Director Kash Patel followed up a fiery introductory speech on Friday (Kash Patel Brings the Fire As He's Sworn in As FBI Director— 'There WILL Be Accountability' – RedState) with equally fiery action. He ordered 1,500 staff and agents to be transferred from its Washington, DC, headquarters to various locations across the nation. Some 1,000 agents and staff will be reassigned to cities the Trump administration has designated higher crime locations where they can fight crime rather than engage in political shenanigans. Another 500 staff will be reassigned to Huntsville, Alabama, which is the DC equivalent of exile to Siberia.
This is Director Patel's first step, and it shouldn't come as a shock. He told us it was going to happen.
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During his confirmation hearing, he reiterated his goal of getting agents and analysts out of DC and into field offices.
"During his confirmation hearing last month, Patel was asked about his previous comments suggesting he wanted the FBI’s headquarters emptied out and shuttered. His responses did not directly address whether he would actually shut the building down or seek to transform it into a museum, but suggested that he believes the FBI’s workforce in Washington should go out into the country.
“A third of the workforce for the FBI works in Washington, D.C.,” Patel said. “I am fully committed to having that workforce go out into the interior of the country, where I live west of the Mississippi, and work with sheriff’s departments and local officers.”"
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Day one!
I love Kash!!!!!!
There goes a lot of COLA and differential pay for being in the DC enclave.
^ Make that two of us. We are SO blessed! God please protect him and his family!
yeah !!!!
district of colossal monuments national park !!!!!
DC area cost of living is much higher than any pay differential—FBI folks who move to Huntsville are going to be much better off financially.
Followed by giggling.
“Hey, just kidding. I had you guys going there. I’m throwing a huge staff party.” 🥳
Well, fine, but I’d rather he fire them rather than foist them across all of us outside of DC. If they need to be gone due to corruption an politics, sending them out to field offices means they are just going to be the same problems, only more local to the rest of us.
That's interesting, because DC is the Huntsville equivalent of Hell.
Hey, Huntsville, Alabama is a cool little city. They have some wild old grocery stores!
Huh? I love Huntsville - spent many years in and out of there, a few weeks at a time.
Lovely city, nice people, great bar-b-que.
They should quit.
You drunk?
Many of them probably appreciate being given actual work !
He is starting off on the right foot.
“Out! Damned Spots!”
Sad trombone...
North Alabama is a really nice place. But the cultural attractions are decidedly inferior to those of DC.
YES!!!
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