Lawmakers scrutinize plan for new FBI headquarters, but agency says its current site is ‘failing’

Summary: Congress and a federal watchdog are taking a closer look at much-scrutinized plans to build a new FBI headquarters in Greenbelt, Maryland. But a top FBI official is warning lawmakers that the agency’s workforce is running into several problems with its current headquarters. More than 15 years after the federal government originally planned for a new FBI headquarters, the crumbling J. Edgar Hoover Building is breaking down in ways that hamper the agency’s mission. Meanwhile, the FBI has moved thousands of its employees out of the Washington, D.C. metro area over the past decade, and built up its presence at other campuses across the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices