FBI Director Patel, a longtime bureau critic, begins to put his stamp on the agency

For years, Kash Patel was a fierce critic of the FBI and once even vowed to shut down its headquarters on Day 1 and turn it into a museum of the "deep state."

Now, Patel is the director of the very FBI he long criticized. Since taking the helm more than 100 days ago, Patel has yet to shutter the Hoover headquarters building and reopen it as a museum. But he has begun trying to remake the bureau in ways large and small.

He and his deputy, former Secret Service agent and right-wing podcaster Dan Bongino , have begun redeploying hundreds of agents and analysts out of the Washington, D.C., area to field offices across the country, while also shifting the FBI from some of its traditional law enforcement work to help with immigration enforcement.

At the same time, senior FBI agents have be