Watchdog to Investigate Decision to Cancel FBI Move

July 3, 2019 at 9:42 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

“The Justice Department’s inspector general will investigate the FBI’s role in dropping plans a decade in the making to move its headquarters to the Washington suburbs,” the Washington Post reports.

“The review could produce new revelations about the Trump administration’s stunning reversal of bipartisan plans for the development of a new, highly secure campus that would have gotten the bureau out of the fast-deteriorating Hoover building.”

“Democrats allege that Trump used the decision to put his own financial interests ahead of the needs of the FBI and taxpayers, which administration officials deny. The GSA is the landlord to Trump’s D.C. hotel, located just down the street from the Hoover building, and redeveloping the Hoover site could introduce a new hotel competitor.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2019/07/03/watchdog-to-investigate-decision-to-cancel-fbi-move/