FBI headquarters selection process was ‘tainted by scandal,’ Congress says

EXCLUSIVE — House lawmakers criticized the agency responsible for selecting the FBI’s multibillion-dollar headquarters site on Wednesday, unveiling findings from their monthslong investigation into the matter and threatening to withhold funding unless corrective action was taken.

The House Judiciary and Oversight committees released a report on the General Services Administration’s process of choosing Greenbelt, Maryland, as the site of the next FBI headquarters. After reviewing thousands of pages of documents and interviewing two key figures involved in choosing Greenbelt, the committees determined that the selection process was “tainted by scandal.”