{"id":1536936,"date":"2025-05-19T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1536936"},"modified":"2025-05-19T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T22:20:00","slug":"the-fbi-washington-headquarters-wont-be-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/the-fbi-washington-headquarters-wont-be-missed\/1536936\/","title":{"rendered":"The FBI Washington Headquarters Won’t Be Missed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The FBI Washington Headquarters Won’t Be Missed<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Current FBI Director Kash Patel is closing down the agency\u2019s Washington, DC, mothership office and moving at least 1,500 employees out of the DC area to regional offices.<\/p>\n

The decision was not just Patel\u2019s.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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During the Biden Administration, it was determined that the 50-year-old Hoover building headquarters was structurally decrepit.<\/strong> More germanely, no prior FBI director had ever explained why nearly a third of the FBI workforce was centered in offices in Washington, far from where most of the serious crime in America occurs.<\/p>\n

The news is welcome for reasons well beyond the safety of agents in an apparently unsafe headquarters.<\/p>\n

It is no exaggeration to state that most of the FBI scandals of the last decade were born in the Hoover building headquarters, suggesting that the agency had long become top-heavy, politically weaponized, and deeply embedded in and compromised by the Washington apparat.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Former FBI Director, later appointed as special counsel, Robert Mueller ran a media-driven, 20-month, 40-million-dollar legal circus chasing the unicorn of \u201cRussian collusion.\u201d His left-wing legal team\u2014replete with political conflicts of interest and scrubbed cell phones\u2014was dubbed by the obsequious, giddy left-wing media as the \u201carmy,\u201d \u201cuntouchables,\u201d \u201call-stars,\u201d \u201cdream team,\u201d and \u201chunter-killer teams.\u201d<\/p>\n

When called to testify about his investigation that had found no Russian-Trump collusion, Mueller implausibly denied any knowledge of the Steele dossier or FusionGPS. <\/strong>Yet they were arguably the very catalysts for his own special counsel appointment.<\/p>\n

Two of his Washington FBI investigators were fired\u2014the amorous Peter Strzok and Lisa Page\u2014who had co-texted a deep personal antipathy toward Trump, the object of their investigations, and a desire to see him not become president, referred to as an \u201cinsurance policy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Note that either the FBI or Mueller\u2019s team also mysteriously lost the requested recorded texts and calls on the duo\u2019s phones.<\/p>\n

Mueller\u2019s successor, James Comey, outdid his predecessor\u2019s congressionally sworn amnesia. <\/strong>Now in the news yet again for allegedly threatening the president with an \u201c8647\u201d tweet, Comey, while under oath to a congressional committee, stonewalled questioning by claiming he did not remember or could not answer on some 245 separate occasions.<\/p>\n

Somehow in 2016, Comey\u2014suddenly acting as both an investigator and a de facto federal prosecutor, despite clear conflicts of interest\u2014managed to interfere in the 2016 campaign by finding Hillary Clinton likely guilty of, but somehow not indictable for, a number of felonies, from unlawfully transmitting classified files to destroying\u00a0subpoenaed evidence.<\/p>\n

Comey also lied to the president that he was not a subject of his own ongoing FBI-directed investigation of Trump.<\/p>\n

Comey hired Christopher Steele as an informant and thereby helped to birth Steele\u2019s fabrications.<\/p>\n

Comey, through a friend, leaked to the New York Times his own private conversations with the president, recorded on his own FBI device no less.<\/p>\n

He set up National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and bragged about how easily the naive and ambushed Flynn foolishly spoke to his FBI investigators without an attorney.<\/p>\n

His successor, interim director Andrew McCabe, was a kindred leaker and political partisan.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

He was fired for lying to federal\u00a0investigators on four occasions, three times while under oath.<\/p>\n

McCabe\u2019s successor, Christopher Wray, infamously oversaw FBI agents spying on parents at school board meetings and supposedly also monitoring \u201cradical traditionalist\u201d Catholics.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wray\u2019s FBI conducted the now equally discredited Mar-a-Lago SWAT team raid on ex-President Trump\u2019s personal residence. The performance-art operation was supposedly designed to find rumored mountains of improperly stored classified files. Despite all the leaks and fake news about troves of secret and classified dossiers, in the end, agents carted away 13,000 documents to find a mere 102 that were deemed classified\u2014some .007 percent of what they confiscated.<\/p>\n

In a now-infamous photo of the document trove released by the FBI, Trump\u2019s classified papers were haphazardly strewn across the floor with nearby covers emblazoned \u201cSecret\u201d in red rubrics.<\/p>\n

Agents later admitted the photos did not reflect the actual position of the documents when they had arrived, but were scattered over the floor and photographed by the FBI, along with the covers that they had brought along to the raid as photo props.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The FBI then showed far less interest in investigating Joe Biden\u2019s three-decade-long illegal possession of classified documents, stored in at least three unsecured locations\u2014and only revealed when the Biden White House had appointed a special counsel to investigate Trump for what Biden himself had done for far longer, with less security and with continued impunity.<\/p>\n

Washington FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith was indicted and convicted of doctoring a FISA application document in order to deceive the federal court into granting surveillance over an innocent but framed Carter Page.<\/strong><\/p>\n

FBI chief counsel James A. Baker, likewise Washington-based, allegedly was deeply involved in trying to shop the spurious Steele dossier to the media on the eve of the 2016 election.<\/p>\n

In general, the Washington FBI sought to warp both the 2016 and 2020 elections and might arguably have affected either outcome. Besides finding Hillary Clinton likely culpable and then improperly exonerating her, later in 2020, the FBI sat tight and silent on the Hunter Biden laptop after authenticating it as genuine.<\/p>\n

Yet almost at the same time, kindred ex-intelligence authorities\u2014the now notorious \u201c51\u00a0former\u00a0intelligence officials\u201d\u00a0\u2014rounded up by former CIA interim director Mike Morrell at the prompt of then Biden aide and soon-to-be Secretary of State Antony\u00a0Blinken\u2014brazenly lied to the public that the laptop was a\u00a0likely creation of Russian intelligence.<\/p>\n

This disinformation campaign, launched by the 51 \u201cformer\u201d intelligence agents, included some who were still on the federal payroll as contractors. <\/strong>Their intent was to arm Joe Biden in the upcoming October 2020 presidential debate with the lie that the incriminating laptop (again confirmed in secret by the FBI as genuine) was fabricated by the Russians. And the ruse worked perfectly in deceiving the American people on the eve of the election.<\/p>\n

Note as well that the FBI embedded agents in social media concerns like Facebook and Twitter to partner in censoring news by deeming it \u201cmisinformation\u201d and \u201cdisinformation.\u201d Yet, in truth, their jobs in the so-called \u201cTwitter Files\u201d scandal were better defined as suppressing any news considered problematic to the then-2020 Biden campaign.<\/p>\n

Many FBI agents later rotated over to high-paying social media companies after their collaboration, among them former FBI general counsel Baker, who was then subsequently fired by the new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk.<\/p>\n

The list of ethical, moral, and legal misadventures at the top-heavy Washington FBI office could be easily expanded.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But suffice to say, the closure of the J. Edgar Hoover building and the dispersal of the toxic Washington-centric FB hierarchy is welcome news.<\/p>\n

Hopefully, this historic closure will also mark the end of the most sordid and decade-long chapter in the history of a once-great agency.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nMon, 05\/19\/2025 – 14:20<\/span><\/p>\n

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