The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is moving 1,500 employees out of the Washington, DC area, and plans to leave its current headquarters at the J. Edgar Hoover FBI building in downtown DC.
About 11,000 FBI employees currently work in the DC area, roughly one-third of the total FBI workforce.
“A third of the crime doesn’t happen here, so we’re taking 1,500 of those folks and moving them out,” said FBI Director Kash Patel. “Every state is getting a plus up.”…