The use of the polygraph, and the nature of the questioning, is part of the F.B.I.’s broader crackdown on news leaks, reflecting, to a degree, the director's acute awareness of how he is publicly portrayed.
In his announcement, Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, did not provide key details on the cost of the project or when employees would transition into the new headquarters.
The building that used to house the U.S. Agency for International Development will become the new headquarters of the F.B.I. It is down the street from the agency’s current headquarters, the J. Edgar Hoover Building.
The pardoned rioter, a former F.B.I. agent who was charged with encouraging the mob that stormed the Capitol, is a counselor to Ed Martin, the director of the so-called weaponization committee.
The selection of Jared L. Wise means a man who had urged violence against police officers on Jan. 6 is now responsible for the department’s official effort to exact revenge against those who had tried to hold the rioters accountable.
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