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Virginia, Maryland, Vie for New FBI Headquarters
AP ^ | Feb. 12, 2023

Posted on 02/13/2023 7:48:59 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

Virginia lawmakers are making their final push to build a new FBI headquarters in their state, while Maryland officials try to persuade the federal government to put it in Maryland.

The Washington Post reports that the jockeying is happening as the General Services Administration gets closer to a decision in the decade-plus-long effort.

In a letter to the GSA and FBI submitted Feb. 3, Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, and most of the Virginia congressional delegation made a detailed case in hopes of swaying the federal government to prefer a site in Springfield, Virginia, instead of locations in Landover and Greenbelt in Maryland.

Virginia lawmakers also sought to compete more aggressively with Maryland on one component that Maryland has sought to elevate: that building the FBI in their community advances racial equity. President Biden signed an executive order in 2021 that made advancing racial equity through federal agencies a priority, a move that considers the effects of federal investment in certain underserved communities.

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


TOPICS: US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: policestate
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To: MinorityRepublican

I suspect the Springfield location is where GSA once had a warehouse. Even then much of the sight was just overgrown brush.


41 posted on 02/13/2023 8:44:51 PM PST by robowombat ( )
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To: ConservativeInPA

As well as many, many other alphabet agencies.


42 posted on 02/13/2023 8:45:57 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

The former sight of the defunct Landover Mall?


43 posted on 02/13/2023 8:47:30 PM PST by robowombat ( )
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To: robowombat

Maybe they should be forced to use the actual (dead) mall as the headquarters. They can park in the weed-strewn parking lots and use various abandoned stores for their various departments.


44 posted on 02/13/2023 8:52:07 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: robowombat
#43; "The former site of the defunct Landover Mall?

Probably the site of the defunct Washington Redskins.

45 posted on 02/13/2023 8:53:36 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

We used to go camping at Lunga reservoir on Quantico Marine Corps base.
Also took our kids fishing there at Secon Pool which was regularly stocked.
We had to go right through the FBI Academy to get there.
Why not build the new building there?


46 posted on 02/13/2023 8:57:14 PM PST by chronicles
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To: chronicles
That makes a lot of sense. There is still a lot of open land there.

47 posted on 02/13/2023 8:58:40 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Relocate it to Anacostia. Short little move.


48 posted on 02/13/2023 8:59:54 PM PST by Allegra
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Yes


49 posted on 02/13/2023 9:03:06 PM PST by robowombat ( )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Nome, alaska is where they should go. A cot, a land line phone. no internet. $5 a month housing allowance.


50 posted on 02/13/2023 9:22:20 PM PST by kvanbrunt2
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To: puppypusher

Nome Alaska. A cot in your cube, land line phone, no internet.


51 posted on 02/13/2023 9:24:17 PM PST by kvanbrunt2
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To: ChildOfThe60s

The FBI headquarters should remain in DC. At least we can see it. But they’re going to move it so it will be like the CIA headquarters.


52 posted on 02/13/2023 9:25:54 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

The CIA illegally meddles in domestic affairs all the time. Why shouldn’t the FBI have their own Kremlin? I wonder how many interrogation rooms they’re going to have in this new monstrous complex?

I don’t doubt that those running the FBI now would like to have their own internment facilities within the complex. An American Lubyanka. Jan 6 has made that pretty clear.


53 posted on 02/13/2023 9:42:06 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: MinorityRepublican

How about just do an asset sale and close it.


54 posted on 02/13/2023 9:43:42 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: robowombat

Not Landover, although that’s what the article says. They want it in New Carrollton because it’s kind of a transport hub, with access to Metro, Amtrak, US 50 and I-495. It’s also in the richest black-majority county in the US, and all that goes along with any black-majority area. It’s favored by politicians and upper management.

The Virginia location is favored by most of the people who work there, since it’s safer and has quicker access to Quantico. It also has better access to the airports, although I-95 is packed, and the Metro line ends there, and there’s a commuter rail station there, too. There are lots of minorities there, too, but they’re the wrong shade.


55 posted on 02/13/2023 10:35:04 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: MinorityRepublican
President Biden signed an executive order in 2021 that made advancing racial equity through federal agencies a priority

Landover it is, then. Prince George's County is where all the uprooted Washingtonians of Color moved to when the white gentrifiers moved back into NE and SE DC.

56 posted on 02/13/2023 10:39:44 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("There is no good government at all & none possible."--Mark Twain)
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To: Rummyfan
they would have to be insane to put it in Maryland.

Because?

57 posted on 02/13/2023 10:40:35 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("There is no good government at all & none possible."--Mark Twain)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I hope every construction worker craps in the concrete, walls, hvac vents ….


58 posted on 02/13/2023 11:32:24 PM PST by wgmalabama (Censored!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

What if they moved it out of the DC area. Keep a Field office in DC. But move the HQ to Denver, Cleveland, Miami ?


59 posted on 02/14/2023 12:39:06 AM PST by jd777
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To: MinorityRepublican

First rule of government spending... why have one when you can have 2 at twice the cost!


60 posted on 02/14/2023 2:40:41 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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