Tag: FBI headquarters

As Trump’s latest effort for new FBI headquarters falls flat, Shelby moves parts of the bureau to Alabama

Washington Post logoAt least 1,500 workers will relocate to $1.1 billion Huntsville campus, with thousands more expected to follow

Three years after President Trump canceled a decade-long plan to build an FBI headquarters in the Washington suburbs, the bureau’s effort at securing a new home remains mired in uncertainty, with no active plan or funding source and thousands of agents still working at the crumbling and poorly secured J. Edgar Hoover Building in downtown Washington.

But there is ample financial support and a clear plan for another FBI headquarters project, one in Huntsville, Ala., that will welcome 1,500 of the bureau’s headquarters staff from the Washington region next year and probably thousands more in coming years.

The principal architect of the flow of FBI staff to Alabama’s Redstone Arsenal complex is Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.), the powerful chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee who has shepherded the project through approvals and secured $1.1 billion in funding for it over the past four years. Continue reading.

Here’s what the location of the FBI headquarters has to do with Congress’ $1 trillion coronavirus relief bill

The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community . . . that in the operations of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same.
— John Quincy Adams, Society and Civilization

AlterNet logoHerewith the questions of the week for savvy readers to ponder and, perhaps, answer.

What is, as of this writing, one of the Trump-inspired provisions in the $1 trillion coronavirus relief bill that, to Mitch McConnell’s surprise, has been included? Here’s a hint: the location of a government building.

Here is the next question: which government building? Here is the answer: the FBI headquarters. They are now located catty corner across from Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Ave. NW in D.C. Continue reading.