FBI Director Kash Patel has uncovered what can only be described as a buried treasure trove of evidence on the origins of the Trump–Russia probe — hidden in “burn bags” inside a previously undisclosed sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF) at FBI headquarters.
Sources familiar with the discovery told Fox News Digital the bags contained thousands of documents, including the classified annex to former Special Counsel John Durham’s final report.
Let that sink in: The annex — which includes the raw intelligence Durham reviewed — was stuffed in a burn bag meant for destruction.
Patel’s team is now working hand in hand with CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and acting NSA Director William Hartman to declassify the annex. It’s headed to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, who will ultimately make it public.
And based on early briefings, it’s a bombshell. Sources told Fox News Digital that the annex reveals U.S. intelligence had credible foreign sources warning — before the FBI even opened its Crossfire Hurricane investigation — that the bureau itself would play a role in spreading the Trump–Russia collusion narrative. In hindsight, one source said, the intelligence “predicted the FBI’s next move with alarming specificity.”
“Mere days after this intelligence was collected, the FBI launched Crossfire Hurricane,” the source told Fox. “It’s really hard to see how Brennan, Clapper and Comey are going to be able to explain this away.”
This isn’t just sloppy procedure — it points directly to coordination inside the U.S. government to give Hillary Clinton political cover by pushing a Trump–Russia conspiracy.
Patel, who made his name as Devin Nunes’ bulldog investigator exposing the FISA abuse scandal, described the find in a June appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast: “Me, as director of the FBI… found a room that 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. Locked the key and hid access and just said, ‘No one’s ever gonna find this place.’”
Well, Kash found it.
Grassley’s team is now reviewing the intelligence, and Patel is working to get the rest of the records into Congress’s hands. Meanwhile, Patel has launched criminal investigations into former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey.
