Effort to remove 'Hoover' from FBI headquarters grows

[NVMojo]

WASHINGTON - Every year for the last three years, Republican Rep. Dan Burton of Indiana has introduced a bill to strip J. Edgar Hoover's name from the FBI's huge headquarters building — an initiative that has been largely ignored.

Now, however, amid headlines about possibly illegal government surveillance of Americans inside the United States, the effort to rename the Hoover building is starting to attract more supporters.

"This country — and the bureau — would be well-served if his name were removed from the bureau's building," U.S. Circuit Judge Laurence H. Silberman, a Reagan appointee, told the First Circuit Judicial Conference last June. "It is as if the Defense Department were named for Aaron Burr."

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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3558411.html

[rfranklin]

1. How about the Louis Freeh Building?

Or maybe the Roy Cohn Building?

[punpirate]

2. Gee, renaming the building will solve all the problems...

... regarding departmental and governmental unethical and illegal behavior. :sarcasm:

But, seriously, folks... anyone wanna bet that behind this pointless exercise is a fervent desire on the part of the Ronnie Raygun cult to name the building for him?

[Burma Jones]

3. Make it the Michael "Heckuva Job Brownie" Brown Building

or maybe sell the naming rights to a TV Network......

[DRoseDARs]

4. Just watch him. If he succeeds he'll propose naming it the Reagan bd. nt

[Sarah Ibarruri]

6. You're right. Republicans would name their own butts Reagan if they could

Reagan <-- dumb, evil movie star, hero to the right wing

[pnorman]

5. This is really puzzling.

Laurnce Silberman is a particularly loathsome CREEP. See: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/02/10/silberman/print.html

pnorman

[Lisa]

7. they can get Hoover off the building ...

... but not out of the agency -- if the recent wiretap discoveries are any indication.

[Demeter]

8. After Hoover Goes, Start on Reagan

Another worthy of the dustbin of history, and plastered on too many public buildings by fanatical worshippers.

[yellowcanine]

9. Sweet justice would be to rename it the Martin Luther King Bldg. Old

J. Edgar would come shooting right out of his grave.

[Auntie Bush]

10. How about the Parks (Rosa) Building? That sounds good.

[rodeodance]

11. this repug most likely upset that Hoover wore women's underclothes vs

snooping!