The Daily Populous Saturday December 27th, 2025 evening edition
Authored by fox5dc.com and submitted by elephant35e

The Brief The FBI is permanently closing the J. Edgar Hoover Building. The building has been the FBI headquarters since 1975. The FBI will move to the Reagan Building.

The FBI is permanently closing its headquarters at the J. Edgar Hoover building in Washington, Director Kash Patel announced on Friday.

FBI Director Kash Patel announced the move on social media Friday. According to Patel, the move is an effort to move the bureau into a safer, more modern facility.

"When we arrived, taxpayers were about to be on the hook for nearly $5 billion for a new headquarters that wouldn't open until 2035," Patel said. "We scrapped that plan."

The Hoover Building has been the FBI's headquarters since 1975. The building was first opened a year earlier. Prior to the Hoover building, the FBI's main offices were located in the Department of Justice building.

The J. Edgar Hoover Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) building in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, July 21, 2025. The federal government workforce in and around the nation's capital has shrunk by about 22,100 in the year through May, a new report s Expand

According to Patel, the FBI will be moving its headquarters to the nearby Reagan Building. That building, Patel said, also needs some safety and infrastructure upgrades, but the FBI will move in once those upgrades are completed.

While most of the FBI headquarters staff will move to the new building, Patel said that several others will be reassigned to the field.

Patel did not give any timeline for those upgrades, or for when the Hoover building will be permanently closed.

rygelicus on December 27th, 2025 at 06:24 UTC »

A reminder from his confirmatiom hearing:

Mr. Patel has published at the back of this book a list of 60 people whom he calls members of the Deep State 60. This list includes many distinguished public servants who've dedicated their lives to our nation. Among them are Democrats and Republicans, including former Trump administration officials like the former Secretary of Defense Esper. Then there is Mr. Patel's plan to, and I quote him, "Shut down the FBI Hoover Building on day one, reopen it the next day as a Museum of the Deep State." And he has said, "We're going to come after people in the media. We're going to come after you, whether it's criminally or civilly. We're putting you all on notice." Does this sound like the kind of nonpartisan law enforcement professional who should lead the FBI? No, not to me.

Foolishstars on December 27th, 2025 at 04:22 UTC »

About to 'lose' a million Epstein documents in the move.

DrexellGames on December 27th, 2025 at 04:20 UTC »

He calls it a 'safe, modern facility,' but the Reagan Building has a public food court and hosts weddings. Nothing says 'National Security' like discussing classified intel while the 'Cha Cha Slide' plays next door.