Kash Patel, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), has announced that he is moving the agency out of its Washington, D.C., headquarters. 

Patel announced the move during a recent interview on the Fox News Channel's Sunday Morning Futures. 

According to Patel, about 1,500 agents are about to be relocated.

The move is already earning the praise of many conservatives.

"The FBI is leaving"

This is all from a clip of the interview that was released early.

In it, Patel says:

This FBI is leaving the Hoover building because this building is unsafe for our workforce and we want… the American men and women to know, if you're going to come work at the premier law enforcement agency in the world, we're going to give you a building that's commensurate with that, and that's not this place.

Patel, here, is referring to the J. Edgar Hoover Building, which was opened in 1975.

It is not immediately clear what he meant by the building being "unsafe."

Patel went on to explain the impetus behind the decision to relocate so many agents.

"Look . . ."

The director explained that the current allocation of FBI agents does not make a whole lot of sense, and he said that he is looking to do something about this.

Patel stated:

Look, the FBI is 38,000 when we're fully manned, which we're not. In the national capital region, in the 50-mile radius around Washington, D.C., there were 11,000 FBI employees. That's like a third of the workforce. A third of the crime doesn't happen here, so we're taking 1,500 of those folks and moving them out.

Patel, of course, will be reallocating these agents to parts of the country that are undermanned.

He continued:

Every state's getting a plus-up, and I think when we do things like that, we inspire folks in America to become intel analysts and agents and say, 'we want to go work at the FBI because we want to go fight violent crime, and we want to get sent out into the country to do it. That's what we're doing in the next three, six, nine months we're going to do that hard.

It is unclear whether or not Trump is playing any role in this behind the scenes. The New York Post recalls how Trump "during his first presidential term, Trump made clear he loathed the edifice and would be glad to see it go." The referred-to "ediface" is the Hoover building.