Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel testifys before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on September 16, 2025. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/File

In a memo to FBI employees, Director Kash Patel announced that some officials would be returning to the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, to reexamine the agency’s intelligence work, marking a stark shift for Patel, who has previously celebrated cutting the number of agents in the nation’s capital.

“To stay at the forefront of the intelligence community, some updates to the FBI’s Intelligence Program are needed,” Patel announced Tuesday in the memo sent to bureau employees and reviewed by CNN. While the current intelligence structures of the FBI were “broadly here to stay,” he sa

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