By Dorothy Robyn and Steve Sorett (August 8, 2017, 10:51 AM EDT) -- Last month, the U.S. General Services Administration made front-page news when it canceled its four-and-a-half-year plan to exchange the crumbling J. Edgar Hoover Building for a new, consolidated FBI headquarters in suburban Washington, D.C. Local political officials and members of Congress reacted with anger, and at a hastily scheduled Senate hearing, GSA and FBI officials pledged to come up with an alternative plan within 120 days. The Trump administration should take advantage of this crisis to exempt the FBI headquarters consolidation project from a perverse set of budgetary scorekeeping (scoring) rules, thus allowing the use of private financing to construct the much-needed new facility....