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JUST IN: Kash Patel To Release Massive Trove Of Crossfire Hurricane Docs
FBI Director Kash Patel has delivered to members of Congress nearly 700 pages disclosing previously unknown details about Operation Crossfire Hurricane, the agency’s fruitless hunt into a connection between Russian agents and the 2016 Trump campaign.
Members of the public will be able to view the documents in near-real time beginning at 7 p.m. EST exclusively on JustTheNews.com.
The trove of new documents promises to shed light on the baseless theory that President Donald Trump colluded with Russia to defeat Hillary Clinton, one perpetuated by his opponents long after it was discredited. The allegations were officially declared dead in 2023 when special counsel John Durham released his yearslong report concluding that no evidence of such a relationship existed.
Regardless, leading proponents of the theory like Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) have continued to carry the Russiagate mantle, asserting that Durham’s report was “flawed from the start” while declining to release evidence he has long claimed to possess which proves Russia’s connection to Trump.
The Russia collusion hoax was on President Trump’s mind during a speech this week where he roasted the California Democrat and denounced the media’s refusal to vindicate him.
“He knows it’s a hoax because he made it up with Crooked Hillary,” Trump said about Schiff.
The set of new documents is titled “Crossfire Hurricane Redacted Binder” and dated April 9th, 2025, the outlet reported. It follows an executive order given by Trump in March, “Immediate Declassification of Materials Related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation.”
“I have determined that all of the materials referenced in the Presidential Memorandum of January 19, 2021 … are no longer classified,” he said in announcing the order.
The 2021 order, which Trump said was not followed by former President Joe Biden, referenced a binder of materials from the Crossfire Hurricane investigation that the U.S. Justice Department had provided to him on December 30th, 2020, just weeks before he was set to leave the White House.
“I hereby declassify the remaining materials in the binder,” Trump said on Jan. 19th, 2021. “This is my final determination under the declassification review and I have directed the Attorney General to implement the redactions proposed in the FBI’s January 17 submission and return to the White House an appropriately redacted copy.”
The 2021 memo states Trump’s wish that “the materials should be declassified to the maximum extent possible.” However, by mid-2021, the FBI responded, saying it had determined the 700 pages were part of passages in the investigation’s report “that it believed it was most crucial to keep from public disclosure.”
Trump agreed to “accept the redactions proposed for continued classification by the FBI” and ordered the rest of the documents to be declassified, which never happened.
In addition to Durham’s findings, DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz concluded there were irreparable flaws in the FBI’s investigation of the Trump-Russia, connection, singling out the “central and essential” role of the Steele dossier, a document fabricated by an agent of the Clinton campaign and passed off as intelligence from Russian sources.
