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Kash Patel Orders 1,500 FBI Agents and Staff Out of the Building on Day One
Red State ^ | 2/21/25 | streiff

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.”"

(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: atf; bondi; cleanup; corruption; fafo; fbi; fool; jackass; patel
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Kash Patel walked into the FBI Director's office with a plan in hand. It appears he started executing that plan on day one.
1 posted on 02/21/2025 4:49:50 PM PST by CFW
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To: CFW

Day one!


2 posted on 02/21/2025 4:52:39 PM PST by VRW Conspirator (DOGE is a verb. Now open: DOW - Department of Winning)
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To: CFW

I love Kash!!!!!!


3 posted on 02/21/2025 4:53:19 PM PST by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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There goes a lot of COLA and differential pay for being in the DC enclave.


4 posted on 02/21/2025 4:53:58 PM PST by damper99
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I love Kash!!!!!!

^ Make that two of us. We are SO blessed! God please protect him and his family!

5 posted on 02/21/2025 4:55:28 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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d.c. will become a ghost town at this rate

yeah !!!!

district of colossal monuments national park !!!!!

6 posted on 02/21/2025 4:57:27 PM PST by cuz1961
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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.


7 posted on 02/21/2025 4:58:59 PM PST by cgbg (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: CFW

Followed by giggling.
“Hey, just kidding. I had you guys going there. I’m throwing a huge staff party.” 🥳


8 posted on 02/21/2025 4:59:21 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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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.


9 posted on 02/21/2025 4:59:22 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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article: "Another 500 staff will be reassigned to Huntsville, Alabama, which is the DC equivalent of exile to Siberia."

That's interesting, because DC is the Huntsville equivalent of Hell.

10 posted on 02/21/2025 4:59:56 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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Hey, Huntsville, Alabama is a cool little city. They have some wild old grocery stores!


11 posted on 02/21/2025 5:00:10 PM PST by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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"...Huntsville, Alabama, which is the DC equivalent of exile to Siberia."

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.

12 posted on 02/21/2025 5:02:22 PM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: CFW

They should quit.


13 posted on 02/21/2025 5:02:32 PM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: frank ballenger

You drunk?


14 posted on 02/21/2025 5:03:08 PM PST by Pikachu_Dad
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To: bray

Many of them probably appreciate being given actual work !


15 posted on 02/21/2025 5:03:42 PM PST by Pikachu_Dad
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To: CFW

He is starting off on the right foot.


16 posted on 02/21/2025 5:03:52 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: CFW

“Out! Damned Spots!”


17 posted on 02/21/2025 5:05:39 PM PST by lee martell
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To: CFW

Sad trombone...


18 posted on 02/21/2025 5:05:47 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Psalm 73

North Alabama is a really nice place. But the cultural attractions are decidedly inferior to those of DC.


19 posted on 02/21/2025 5:06:46 PM PST by Romulus ( )
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To: CFW

YES!!!


20 posted on 02/21/2025 5:08:32 PM PST by simpson96
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