FBI Director Kash Patel dropped a political bombshell Friday morning that’s already making waves across Washington: the FBI is officially leaving the Hoover Building — and for good reason.
In an interview with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo and Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, Patel confirmed what many conservatives have long hoped for — that the J. Edgar Hoover Building, the infamous hub of deep-state corruption, political surveillance, and bureaucratic rot, is finally being shut down as the FBI’s headquarters.
“This FBI is leaving the Hoover Building because this building is unsafe for our workforce,” Patel said bluntly. Bongino, taken aback, laughed and quipped, “You just gave up a big nugget, there.” Nugget? More like a bunker buster.
Patel didn’t stop there. He explained that the building isn’t just physically unsafe — it’s symbolically toxic. “We want the American men and women to know that if you’re going to work at the premier law enforcement agency in the country, we’re going to give you a building that is commensurate with that,” he said.
Translation: no more honoring the ghosts of the Deep State. No more protecting the legacy of J. Edgar Hoover, the surveillance-happy bureaucrat whose name became synonymous with government overreach. And no more hiding behind a fortress that’s been home to corruption, coverups, and collusion.
But this is more than a cosmetic change. Patel is also decentralizing the FBI’s bloated D.C. bureaucracy. “The FBI is 38,000 when we’re fully manned, which we’re not,” Patel noted. “In the national capital region, there were 11,000 FBI employees; that is a third of the workforce. So we’re taking 1,500 of those folks and moving them out.”
“Every state is getting a plus-up,” he added. That means more agents in local communities and fewer pencil-pushers in Washington, D.C. — a much-needed pivot from the top-heavy, politically tainted model that’s been in place for decades.
And yes, true to his word, Patel wants to turn the Hoover Building into a museum — not to celebrate it, but to remind the public what unchecked government power looks like. As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Patel views this as a tribute to the Deep State — a place where Americans can learn how bad things got before reform finally came.
This is what cleaning house looks like. And it’s long overdue.
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