Overview
- FBI Director Kash Patel announced he found multiple burn bags filled with thousands of classified documents in a previously undisclosed SCIF at FBI headquarters
- Among the recovered materials is the classified annex to John Durham’s final report, which contains the underlying foreign-sourced intelligence he reviewed
- Sources say the annex suggests the FBI played a role in advancing the Trump–Russia collusion narrative before launching the Crossfire Hurricane probe
- Patel is leading a declassification effort with CIA, DNI, DOJ and NSA leadership and will forward the annex to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley for public release
- The discovery has prompted criminal inquiries into former intelligence and FBI officials and intensified scrutiny of the bureau’s conduct during the Russia investigation