21 Replies to “New FBI Headquarters To Be Twice The Size Of Pentagon”

  3. 26,000 people “work” at the Pentagon.
    They used to tell visitors taking the tour of the building the number of miles of pencils they use a year to impress them.

  4. How about a 10 person office?

    The rest of the property would house solar panels and battery back up, which might be sufficient to supply the office with power.

  8. It has been said that when any organization builds the perfect headquarters, it’s complete collapse is imminent.

    One word, palaces.

    That is what is now important to them.

    Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people”:

    First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration.

    Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc.

    The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.

    The FBI is now dedicated to building themselves grand palaces.

    1. Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy also applies to many large, “private sector” corporations.
      I guess the minute one looks upon the customer as a cost to be borne, as opposed to the actual source of revenue, one has made the transition from “those who are devoted to the goals of the organization” to “those dedicated to the organization itself.”
      The west is really good at…transitioning.

  9. AYFKM !!??

    I can’t WAIT to see what “inclusive” architecture looks like. Assuredly a queer-looking building

  11. “GSA set out five criteria for choosing the property: FBI mission requirement; transportation access for FBI personnel; site development flexibility, which includes the suitability of the actual property and the earliest time construction could begin; promoting sustainable siting and advancing equity; and cost. Of those five criteria, cost to the taxpayer is viewed as least important.”

    Gee what a surprise!
    No different than any other corrupt gov’t on the planet including ours. Gouge and rape the taxpayer for your shiny new building.

  12. What about say, a huge dark tower, topped with a kind of All-Seeing-Eye hologram!

    The C.I.A. has Foggy Bottom; the F.B.I. can have Mordor…

    Maybe I shouldn’t give ’em ideas…!

  14. Pew pew pew.. When America won the cold war most of its geo political assets had nothing to do anymore.. So they turned around and decided to fix America.. A endless make work project for themselves..

    All the big ticket items are matters of opinion, unmeasurable.. White supremacy, racism, climate change.. Individuals busting rocks to solve some group dynamic problem that lives in a computer model.. They control both the problem and the solution.. Politics turning it into some sort of weird fan club.. Lets ban everything and eat bugs..

    Morons who cant wait to get a tattoo on their face and cut their junk off?.. We are in steep decline..

    1. “When America won the cold war most of its geo political assets had nothing to do anymore.”

      And the media was already at war with mainstream Americans during that time, so it was a pretty easy thing for them to choose their new enemy.

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