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EXCLUSIVE: FBI Director Kash Patel discovered a trove of delicate paperwork associated to the origins of the Trump–Russia probe buried in a number of “burn luggage” in a secret room contained in the bureau, sources accustomed to the incident informed Fox Information Digital.
Sources informed Fox Information Digital that the “burn bag” system is used to destroy paperwork designated as categorized or greater.
Sources informed Fox Information Digital that a number of burn luggage have been discovered and crammed with 1000’s of paperwork.
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Sources informed Fox Information Digital that one of many paperwork FBI officers present in a burn bag was the categorized annex to former particular counsel John Durham’s last report, which incorporates the underlying intelligence he reviewed.
The declassification of the categorized annex is being carried out in shut coordination between CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Patel, Director of Nationwide Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Legal professional Normal Pam Bondi and appearing Nationwide Safety Company Director William Hartman.
FBI Director Kash Patel, in a June interview with podcast host Joe Rogan, revealed that he discovered a room filled with paperwork and pc laborious drives “that nobody had ever seen or heard of.” (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Pictures)
The declassified annex will probably be transmitted to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, who finally will launch the doc to the general public.
Sources completely briefed Fox Information Digital on among the contents of the categorized annex — together with that the U.S. intelligence neighborhood had credible international sources indicating that the FBI would play a job in spreading the alleged Trump–Russia collusion narrative — earlier than the bureau ever launched its controversial Crossfire Hurricane probe.
A supply accustomed to the contents of the categorized annex informed Fox Information Digital that whereas it could not have been precisely clear within the second what the intelligence assortment meant, with the good thing about hindsight, it predicted the FBI’s subsequent transfer “with alarming specificity.”
“In the end, the discharge of the categorized annex will lend extra credibility to the assertion that there was a coordinated plan contained in the U.S. authorities to assist the Clinton marketing campaign fire up controversy connecting Trump to Russia,” the supply, who was granted anonymity to debate delicate intelligence issues that haven’t but been made public, informed Fox Information Digital.
Director of Nationwide Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard talks to reporters within the Brady Press Briefing Room on the White Home July 23, 2025 in Washington, D.C., after releasing newly declassified paperwork in regards to the Trump–Russia collusion “hoax.” (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Pictures | Fox Information Digital)
“Mere days after this intelligence was collected, the FBI launched Crossfire Hurricane,” the supply stated. “It’s actually laborious to see how Brennan, Clapper and Comey are going to have the ability to clarify this away.”
Sources informed Fox Information Digital that Patel and his crew found a beforehand undisclosed delicate compartmented data facility (SCIF) within the FBI headquarters.
Fox Information Digital reached out to earlier FBI Administrators Christopher Wray and James Comey for remark and has not but obtained any responses.
Patel, in a June interview with podcast host Joe Rogan, revealed that he discovered a room filled with paperwork and pc laborious drives “that nobody had ever seen or heard of.”
“Simply take into consideration this,” Patel informed Rogan. “Me, as director of the FBI, the previous ‘Russiagate man,’ once I first acquired to the bureau, discovered a room that Comey and others hid from the world within the Hoover Constructing, filled with paperwork and pc laborious drives that nobody had ever seen or heard of. Locked the important thing and hid entry and simply stated, ‘Nobody’s ever gonna discover this place.'”
Patel and his employees have been working via the paperwork, a few of that are associated to delicate investigations, together with the FBI’s unique Trump–Russia probe, identified contained in the bureau as Crossfire Hurricane.
It’s unclear what the newest paperwork cowl particularly, however sources informed Fox Information Digital that the newest discovery was pursuant to an investigative request from Grassley.
Kash Patel is sworn in throughout a Senate Judiciary Committee listening to on his nomination to be FBI Director, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 30, 2025. (Mandel Ngan/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
Patel has turned the paperwork over to Grassley.
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Grassley has been requesting data associated to Durham’s probe. Durham was appointed after then-special counsel Robert Mueller accomplished his yearslong investigation into the origins of the Trump–Russia probe — together with intelligence neighborhood malfeasance throughout and within the aftermath of the 2016 election.
It’s unclear what the newest paperwork cowl particularly, however sources informed Fox Information Digital that the newest discovery was pursuant to an investigative request from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley. (Drew Angerer/Getty Pictures)
Sources informed Fox Information Digital that Grassley’s crew is now reviewing the underlying data as a part of its investigative work.
As for the opposite information, Patel’s employees is working to show them over to Congress pursuant to investigative requests by committees of jurisdiction.
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‘CROSSFIRE HURRICANE’
Patel has been instrumental in unraveling the alleged Russia collusion narrative.
He beforehand served because the chief investigator within the congressional probe into alleged Trump–Russia collusion — uncovering suspected authorities surveillance abuse that led to the appointment of two particular counsels: one who decided there was no such collusion, Mueller, and one other who decided the complete premise of the FBI’s unique investigation was bogus, Durham.
Patel served as senior counsel and a nationwide safety adviser on the Home Everlasting Choose Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) for then-Chair Rep. Devin Nunes.
Whereas Mueller investigated, the HPSCI opened its personal investigation into alleged Trump–Russia collusion.
Robert Mueller served because the FBI’s sixth director. (Reuters)
In July 2016, through the election cycle, the FBI launched an investigation into whether or not the Trump marketing campaign was colluding with Russia to affect the end result of the election. That investigation, contained in the bureau, was often known as Crossfire Hurricane.
By January 2017, Comey had notified Trump of a file, often known as the Steele file, that contained salacious and unverified allegations about Trump’s purported coordination with the Russian authorities, a key doc prompting the opening of the probe.
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The file was authored by Christopher Steele, an ex-British intelligence officer, and commissioned by Fusion GPS. Hillary Clinton’s presidential marketing campaign employed Fusion GPS through the 2016 election cycle.
One-time advisor to then-President-elect Donald Trump, Carter Web page, addresses the viewers throughout a presentation in Moscow on Dec. 12, 2016. (Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)
It was finally decided that the Clinton marketing campaign and the Democratic Nationwide Committee funded the file via the legislation agency Perkins Coie.
Trump fired Comey in Might 2017. Days later, Mueller was appointed as particular counsel to take over the Crossfire Hurricane probe and examine whether or not the Trump marketing campaign colluded with Russia to affect the 2016 election cycle.
Whereas Mueller investigated, the HPSCI opened its personal investigation into alleged Trump–Russia collusion.
Former FBI Director James Comey, left, and present FBI Director Kash Patel. (Getty)
Patel, as chief investigator for Nunes, by February 2018 had found widespread authorities surveillance abuse, together with alleged improper surveillance of former Trump marketing campaign aide Carter Web page.
“Whereas most members of Congress have been able to ignore the unprecedented civil rights abuses towards the Trump marketing campaign and myself, Kash Patel’s coaching as a prime public defender made him the proper advocate for exposing one of many best election interference scandals of all time,” Web page informed Fox Information Digital.
Patel was an integral a part of the creation of a memo launched by then-Chair Nunes in February 2018, which detailed the DOJ’s and FBI’s surveillance of Web page underneath the Overseas Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Nunes and Patel revealed that the notorious anti-Trump file funded by Democrats “fashioned a necessary half” of the appliance to spy on Web page.
The memo referred to closed-door testimony from former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who stated that “no surveillance warrant would have been sought” from the FISA court docket “with out the Steele file data.”
Nonetheless, when making use of for the FISA warrant, the FBI omitted the origins of the file, particularly its funding from Clinton, who was Trump’s 2016 presidential opponent.
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The memo additionally stated Steele, who labored as an FBI informant, was finally minimize off from the bureau for what the FBI described as probably the most severe of violations, “an unauthorized disclosure to the media of his relationship with the FBI.”
The memo famous that the FBI and DOJ obtained “one preliminary FISA warrant” concentrating on Web page and three FISA renewals from the Overseas Intelligence Surveillance Courtroom. The statute required that each 90 days a FISA order on an American citizen “have to be reviewed.”
The memo revealed that Comey signed three FISA purposes for Web page, whereas McCabe, former Deputy Legal professional Normal Rod Rosenstein, former Deputy Legal professional Normal Sally Yates and former Appearing Deputy Legal professional Normal Dana Boente signed at the very least one.
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Put up by way of Getty Pictures)
The memo was extensively criticized by Democrats however was finally right.
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“Kash was instrumental in unraveling the Russia collusion hoax and discovering proof of presidency malfeasance regardless of fixed makes an attempt by the FBI and DOJ to stonewall our investigation,” Nunes, who now chiefs Trump’s Fact Social web site, informed Fox Information Digital earlier in 2025.
The Justice Division inspector common, Michael Horowitz, reviewed the memo and confirmed the file served as the premise for the controversial FISA warrants obtained towards Web page.
“The feds spied on Kash through the probe and ran data warfare towards him, however Kash helped expose them anyway,” Nunes informed Fox Information Digital.
John Durham testifies earlier than the Home Judiciary Committee on June 20, 2023. (Screenshot/HouseJudiciaryCommittee)
Nunes was referring to the Justice Division in November 2017 utilizing grand jury subpoenas to secretly get hold of the non-public e-mail and cellphone information for Patel and one other Nunes staffer on the HPSCI as they have been investigating FBI abuse and the Russia probe.
In the meantime, Patel, now serving as FBI director, has opened a legal investigation into then-CIA Director John Brennan, after receiving a legal referral from Ratcliffe; and has opened a legal investigation into Comey.
As for Grassley’s crew, he’s anticipated to launch a declassified model of the annex to Durham’s last report, which incorporates the underlying intelligence he reviewed. The intelligence has beforehand been categorized.
DECLASSIFIED TRUMP-RUSSIA PROBE DOCUMENTS: WHAT TO KNOW
CIA Director John Ratcliffe, joined at middle by Director of Nationwide Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, testifies because the Senate Intelligence Committee holds its worldwide threats listening to, on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 25, 2025. (J. Scott Applewhite/The Related Press)
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