Overview

• FBI Director Kash Patel discovered a concealed room at FBI headquarters containing burn bags with thousands of classified Trump-Russia investigation documents.
• Among the materials was the classified annex to Special Counsel John Durham’s 2023 report, which reportedly includes foreign-source intelligence indicating that the FBI played a role in spreading the collusion narrative.
• A coordinated declassification team led by CIA Director John Ratcliffe alongside DNI Tulsi Gabbard, Attorney General Pam Bondi, acting NSA Director William Hartman and Patel is preparing the annex for Senate Judiciary review.
• Ratcliffe has publicly asserted that underlying intelligence shows the collusion narrative originated with the Clinton campaign and was accelerated by FBI actions.
• Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley is poised to receive and potentially publish the annex as Republican demands for answers over the Crossfire Hurricane probe’s origins intensify and former intelligence chiefs contest those allegations.