Senate Should Rename J. Edgar Hoover Building After Champion of Civil Liberties Don Edwards August 1, 2017 by BORDC/DDF The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will be holding a hearing on August 2, 2017 entitled FBI Headquarters Consolidation Project – What Happened and What’s Next. The hearing is set to address the Administration’s determination not to relocate the FBI to a new headquarters, despite the age and inefficiency of its current headquarters. Our concern, however, is not with the physical building itself, but who it is named after–J. Edgar Hoover. As we write in the letter, Hoover, from the...
