FBI Director Kash Patel keeps churning the political waters after exposing more Democratic secrets about the “Russiagate” operation. “It was very, very clearly an inside campaign,” said “Ruthless” podcast host Josh Holmes on Fox News.
Patel alluded to these findings in early June with Joe Rogan, claiming he discovered a previously undisclosed room within the FBI, containing “documents and computer hard drives” that none of his staff had seen before. “Just think about this,” Patel said on Rogan’s podcast. “Me, as director of the FBI, the former ‘Russiagate guy,’ when I first got to the bureau, found a room that [former Director James] Comey and others hid from the world in the Hoover Building, full of documents and computer hard drives that no one had ever seen or heard of.”
According to Fox News, sources say these “burn bags” with thousands of hidden documents are designed to “destroy documents designated as classified or higher.” Sources also claim the FBI discovered the classified appendix from former special counsel John Durham’s 2023 final report and his reviewed intelligence information in the burn bags. In his public report, Durham concluded his investigation of the Trump-Russia probe by claiming the FBI “rushed into the investigation without an adequate basis and routinely ignored or rationalized evidence that undercut its premise.”
But why would the FBI want to classify the report’s appendix — “Durham annex” — and keep it from public view? According to the Senate Judiciary Committee, the annex contains unreleased documents that expose “a reported Clinton campaign plan to falsely tie President Donald Trump to Russia,” as well as other evidence of potential election interference, false statements from FISA court, and the failure of Comey’s FBI to sufficiently investigate the Clinton campaign’s involvement in the formation of the Russia collusion hoax. Fox News also claimed the annex documents included intel that foreign sources alerted U.S. intelligence community members of the FBI’s 2016 election interference narrative before the launch of the “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation in July of 2016.
These documents are now being declassified under the coordinated efforts of Patel, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and acting National Security Agency Director William Hartman. Eventually, the information will be released to the public once transmitted to Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).
Although the public has yet to learn what more is included in these documents, the controversy is continuing to heat up. “Either way, it was an attempt to stop Trump. And it also proves the FBI had a hand in it,” said Senator Grassley.
