Here are all the things Kash Patel has said he wants to do
By
Andi Shae Napier
December 3, 2024 1:46 pm
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Kashyap “Kash” Patel, President-elect Donald Trump‘s pick to lead the FBI, has been a Trump loyalist for years.
The two have shared the same distrust of the FBI, but Patel has made his thoughts of overhauling the FBI known through interviews and his book, Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth and the Battle for Our Democracy.
Here are some things Patel has said about the nation’s top federal law enforcement agency.
Shutting down the FBI’s DC headquartersThe J. Edgar Hoover Building on Pennsylvania Avenue has been home to the FBI since 1974. Patel has been outspoken about his desire to close down the building and rid the FBI of its Washington, D.C., base.
During a September interview on the Shawn Ryan Show, Patel said, “I’d shut down the FBI Hoover Building on Day One and reopen it the next day as a museum of the ‘deep state.'”
“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,” he said.
The building happens to be in a state of flux as the General Services Administration chose Greenbelt, Maryland, as the location for a new FBI base. However, FBI Director Christopher Wray has expressed concerns about conflicts of interest in selecting the new headquarters site.
In Patel’s book, he encouraged the idea of moving the FBI’s headquarters out of Washington, saying it would “prevent institutional capture and curb FBI leadership from engaging in political gamesmanship.”
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