FBI To Leave Historic HQ That Kash Patel Once Promised To Make A ‘Museum Of The Deep State’

In his announcement, Trump's FBI director boasted that he, along with the president and Congress, had “accomplished what no one else could.”

FBI Director Kash Patel announced his agency would be permanently closing its headquarters at Washington D.C.’s J. Edgar Hoover Building on Friday, a site he once vowed to turn into a “museum of the deep state.”

Breaking the news on X, Patel confirmed long-promised plans to make the FBI decamp from its time-worn but historic brutalist-style home base, which has housed the agency since its opening in 1975.

In his post, Patel boasted that he, along with President Donald Trump and his Republican-led Congress, had “accomplished what no one else could” with its decision to move personnel to “safe, modern facility” at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, the former location of the now-defunct U.S. Agency for International Development.

It’s unclear if Patel, who has long endorsed the theory that a group of shadowy Washington insiders covertly control what happens on Capitol Hill, intends to follow through on his post-election podcast promise to turn the Hoover Building into a “museum of the deep state.”

But moving the FBI’s hub to another site in D.C. comes as a slap in the face to the state of Maryland, which was in 2023 picked to be the home of the agency’s new headquarters following an extended and contentious search.