Nearly three dozen FBI agents may be moving from the nation’s capital to the agency’s regional office in Kansas City. Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel confirmed those plans during a recent congressional hearing.
“Approximately 37 positions to Missouri — 33 to Kansas City, one each to Topeka (Kansas), Wichita (Kansas), Jefferson City, and two to Springfield,” he said.
Patel told U.S. Rep. Mark Alford, R-Mo. 4th District, that he was advised to reassign these agents due to the proportion of violent crime in the Midwest.
“I asked the people at the Bureau who’ve been doing this job for 20-plus years, tell me where we need to send agents, Intel analysts and (Staff Operations Specialists),” he said. “These are the places they told me to send them, and why, because of the proportion of violent crime per capita in those regions needs to be covered down on.”
He also told the U.S. House Appropriations Committee that we need to take our adversaries overseas more seriously.
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