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Kash Patel F.B.I. Director Plans to Move Hundreds of Agents to Field Offices
New York times ^ | 21st February 2025 | Adam Goldman and Devlin Barrett

Posted on 02/21/2025 7:51:02 PM PST by Cronos

The F.B.I. director Kash Patel told bureau officials on Friday that he wanted to send 1,000 agents from the Washington area to field offices across the country, with another 500 support staff reassigned to the bureau’s sprawling campus in Alabama, people familiar with the matter said.

...In a statement, the F.B.I. said: “Director Patel has made clear his promise to the American public that F.B.I. agents will be in communities focused on combating violent crime. He has directed F.B.I. leadership to implement a plan to put this promise into action.”

...“I’d shut down the F.B.I. Hoover Building on Day 1 and reopen it the next day as a museum of the ‘deep state,’” Mr. Patel said on the podcast “The Shawn Ryan Show.” “Then, I’d take the 7,000 employees that work in that building and send them across America to chase down criminals. Go be cops. You’re cops — go be cops.”

...At his Senate confirmation hearing, Mr. Patel sought to explain his pledge to drastically overhaul the bureau. He said that there were about 11,000 F.B.I. employees out of around 38,000 working in the Capitol and surrounding areas like Quantico, Va., where the bureau’s training academy is based.

...“I will do that over and over and over again because the American people deserve the resources, not in Washington, D.C., but in the rest of the country,” he told senators last month.

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


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: fbi; museum; museumofthedeepstate; patel
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You’re cops — go be cops
1 posted on 02/21/2025 7:51:02 PM PST by Cronos
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To: Cronos

I think that the same could be done for most federal departments. Too much is needlessly concentrated in D.C.


2 posted on 02/21/2025 7:55:49 PM PST by Engraved-on-His-hands
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

Agree...


3 posted on 02/21/2025 7:59:45 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

It’s that insular D.C. concentration that builds and sustains the Deep State.


4 posted on 02/21/2025 7:59:46 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Democrats who say ‘no one is above the law’ won’t mind going to prison for the money they stole.)
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You’re cops — go be cops

Oh man, President Trump has really set the tone for rubbing it in. They're all doing it.

5 posted on 02/21/2025 8:01:41 PM PST by Jeff Chandler
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands
I think that the same could be done for most federal departments

Don't stop until you start to see tumbleweeds tumbling down Pennsylvania Avenue.

6 posted on 02/21/2025 8:04:14 PM PST by Jeff Chandler
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To: Cronos

How about a large Western field office in Provo, Utah, or Cheyenne, Wyoming?

Close down the Hoover Building in D.C., and turn it into luxury condos.


7 posted on 02/21/2025 8:07:40 PM PST by BrexitBen
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

Send a bunch of them to Attu Island. Keep an eye on illegal salmon poaching by the Russkies.


8 posted on 02/21/2025 8:09:38 PM PST by technically right
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To: Cronos

So I guess that fancy new FBI HQ building is...on hold?


9 posted on 02/21/2025 8:16:08 PM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: bigbob

THIS is exactly what I had hoped for DIVIDE AND CONQUER!!!


10 posted on 02/21/2025 8:18:22 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: BrexitBen
Close down the Hoover Building in D.C., and turn it into luxury condos.

Kash said he wanted to turn it into the "Museum of the Deep State"

11 posted on 02/21/2025 8:18:46 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Cronos

They need to fired.


12 posted on 02/21/2025 8:44:09 PM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would fhave to resort to prostitution.)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

my bet is if you spread the dc bureaucracy out to these places a lot of the one allowing their politics to dictate actions will Quit or be fired with cause over time.


13 posted on 02/21/2025 8:48:33 PM PST by PCPOET7 (`)
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To: Cronos
This is the best action for many departments. Get their staff into the country where the tight incest of DC concentration will be dispersed. A side benefit will be the dispersion of the various lobbying groups and K street lawfirms!!! The initial cost may be high but it will pay dividends for our future!
14 posted on 02/21/2025 9:05:44 PM PST by ExSES (the "bottom line")
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To: MinorityRepublican

The Hoover Building and probably their outpost at Quantico need to be quarantined because they are crime scenes.


15 posted on 02/21/2025 9:10:00 PM PST by bakeneko
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

I would bet that emails are being searched for evidence of undermining 45. I would guess there are agents who are filling their drawers, darn well known the s*** is gonna hit the fan.


16 posted on 02/21/2025 9:24:01 PM PST by healy61
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To: technically right

“Send a bunch of them to Attu Island. Keep an eye on illegal salmon poaching by the Russkies.”

Japan has been trying to rcover their war dead for some decades. They can help there.


17 posted on 02/21/2025 9:32:54 PM PST by rxh4n1
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To: BrexitBen; Cronos
How about a large Western field office in Provo, Utah, or Cheyenne, Wyoming?

How about Point Barrow, Alaska?

18 posted on 02/21/2025 9:51:19 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: Cronos

I don’t know why the New Yawk Slimes doesn’t move its boneheads into pup tents.


19 posted on 02/21/2025 10:15:39 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Cartel Human Smuggling Into America IS NOT Immigration. It's a crime.)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

Yup. The Ag dept should be in Iowa.


20 posted on 02/21/2025 10:46:51 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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