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.
A three-member panel had initially determined that Springfield, Virginia, was the best location. The decision of a political appointee overseeing the process to reject career officials’ “unanimous” recommendation, Wray wrote, wasn’t “‘inherently inappropriate,’ but it is 'exceedingly rare.’”
Wray shouldn’t even be running the FBI. Biden should have fired every single Trump appointee as soon as he was inaugurated.
Leaving him as head gives Biden a little leverage when Trump spouts bullshit about government agency partisanship. “The current head of the FBI was appointed by Trump himself” is a fairly damning counterargument.
This kind of seems like interstate bickering from this article. Like, Virginia is mad because they didn’t get picked, but both Maryland and the Biden administration is happy with the choice?
Public transit is definitely important for a decision like this, and as a former Virginia resident, NoVA is definitely struggling with providing adequate public transit.
MAGA Republican
Who?
Wray
Is he a piece of shit? Sure, but that’s every head of the FBI.
Is he MAGA? No. Stop it, you’re embarrassing yourself.
Wray was going to bitch about the site and try to derail things no matter what site was selected. He wants to stay in DC because that keeps him closer to power; that’s it.