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FBI Director Wray criticizes selection of new headquarters site, citing 'potential conflict'
NBC News ^ | Nov. 9, 2023 | Morgan Smith and Frank Thorp V

Posted on 11/11/2023 9:04:04 AM PST by MinorityRepublican

FBI Director Christopher Wray told agency staffers that he was concerned about “a potential conflict of interest” involving the selection of the bureau’s new headquarters in Maryland, according to an email obtained by NBC News.

On Thursday, the General Services Administration confirmed that the FBI’s new home would be in Greenbelt, about 13 miles northeast of Washington, seeming to bring to an end a drawn-out and politically fraught site selection process. Two other finalists were Springfield, Virginia, and Landover, Maryland.

In his unusually pointed letter to staffers, Wray said the FBI has “concerns about fairness and transparency in the process and GSA’s failure to adhere to its own site selection plan,” adding that a senior GSA executive overruled a board decision and picked land that is owned by the executive’s previous employer, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: maryland; wmat; wray
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1 posted on 11/11/2023 9:04:04 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

The FBI Headquarters should I suggest a new location I’ll let everyone use their imagination instead.


2 posted on 11/11/2023 9:05:37 AM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: MinorityRepublican

My middle school was in Landover, MD. So glad to be not living inside the Beltway.


3 posted on 11/11/2023 9:06:02 AM PST by Calm_Cool_and_Elected (" Undecided Voter: someone who parades their stupidity as proof of their morality." ~David Burge)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I am not sure why the FBI headquarters wouldn’t be in DC, but it should be. Mow down some neighborhoods which shouldn’t be there to begin with and put it where it should be in DC


4 posted on 11/11/2023 9:07:16 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: MinorityRepublican

Hey Warner, it’s not just the site process that’s “Rotten”.


5 posted on 11/11/2023 9:07:19 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Put it in Laramie Wyoming.


6 posted on 11/11/2023 9:07:30 AM PST by PGR88
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To: MinorityRepublican

How about Bismark North Dakota?


7 posted on 11/11/2023 9:08:06 AM PST by moreisee (The Media is the enemy.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
The FBI Director is starting to sound sane for once.
Greenbelt is too crowded for the FBI Headquarters.
The FBI needs to shut down anyway.
8 posted on 11/11/2023 9:08:25 AM PST by StormEye
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To: Calm_Cool_and_Elected
My middle school was in Landover, MD. So glad to be not living inside the Beltway

I think it's better that the Feds are in blue Maryland. It's a bonus that the FBI Director is pissed off about it. If he changed the site to Virginia, we can call him a "racist" for doing that.

9 posted on 11/11/2023 9:08:27 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: StormEye
Greenbelt is too crowded for the FBI Headquarters.

I don't give a ****.

10 posted on 11/11/2023 9:09:12 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Why are we rewarding a corrupt FBI with a new headquarters larger than the Pentagon? Could it be that Congress is so corrupt themselves and the FBI is blackmailing them into getting what they want? J. Edgar Hoover lives on.


11 posted on 11/11/2023 9:09:35 AM PST by Rowdyone (Vigilence)
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To: Nextrush

They could put in in Gitmo so it would be closer to Havana, the Obama-Biden source of inspiration.


12 posted on 11/11/2023 9:10:20 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Put them with the NIH primate research center in Reston. They can be the first to beta test new Fauci-viruses.


13 posted on 11/11/2023 9:10:36 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
I am not sure why the FBI headquarters wouldn’t be in DC

They should tear down the J. Edgar Hoover Building and then put a new headquarters on the same site in D.C.

But they don't want to do that because it would make them accountable to Americans. They prefer to hide somewhere in the suburbs so we can't gain access to them.

14 posted on 11/11/2023 9:11:18 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: PGR88

I was thinking Kansas but I’m good with Laramie.


15 posted on 11/11/2023 9:11:52 AM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The road to tyranny is paved with compliance )
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To: MinorityRepublican

They don’t need another building. If they do there are a whole lot of now empties in DC. Why can’t they move into some of those?


16 posted on 11/11/2023 9:12:54 AM PST by dforest
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To: Rowdyone
Why are we rewarding a corrupt FBI with a new headquarters larger than the Pentagon?

If Trump wins in 2024 (a big IF), he should postpone the construction until his presidency ends on January 20, 2029.

17 posted on 11/11/2023 9:13:22 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

i like it

the feebs are going to love pg county


18 posted on 11/11/2023 9:13:28 AM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Whatta bout EBF, Egypt?


19 posted on 11/11/2023 9:14:51 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Next to the SuperMax in Colo.


20 posted on 11/11/2023 9:16:38 AM PST by Paladin2
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