FBI Director Kash Patel has reportedly found thousands of highly sensitive Trump–Russia probe documents in a secret room at the FBI headquarters.
According to Fox News, these documents were found buried in “burn bags” inside a secret room at the FBI’s Hoover Building headquarters—bags typically used to destroy classified material permanently.
The discovery is reigniting serious concerns about the FBI’s role in launching and perpetuating the widely criticized Crossfire Hurricane probe, which sought to link Donald Trump to Russian election interference in 2016.
Sources claim Patel’s team discovered multiple burn bags filled with thousands of documents, including never-before-seen intelligence, computer hard drives, and a classified annex to Special Counsel John Durham’s final report.
The annex reportedly contains the raw intelligence Durham reviewed during his investigation into the origins of the Trump–Russia hoax—an investigation which concluded that the FBI’s launch of the Crossfire Hurricane operation was based on deeply flawed intelligence and politically motivated claims.
Even more explosive, sources allege the annex includes credible foreign intelligence that predicted the FBI would engage in actions designed to support the Clinton campaign by pushing false narratives linking Trump to Russia.
According to insiders, the classified material was located in what appeared to be a hidden Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF)—a secure area where the most secretive U.S. intelligence data is handled.
Patel and his team, acting on a request from Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, reportedly accessed the room during a sweep of the building and were stunned by what they found.
“Just think about this,” Patel told Joe Rogan in a June 2025 interview. “Me, as director of the FBI—the former Russiagate guy—when I first got to the bureau, found a room that Comey and others hid from the world in the Hoover Building.
It was full of documents and computer hard drives that no one had ever seen or heard of. They locked the key, hid access, and just said, ‘No one’s ever gonna find this place.’”
This undisclosed room had seemingly been concealed from oversight and accountability, and it contained critical information from the early days of the FBI’s surveillance operations against the Trump campaign.
Sources confirmed that Patel’s staff is now combing through these files, many of which relate directly to the Crossfire Hurricane investigation and the politically charged FISA warrants targeting former Trump aide Carter Page.
Perhaps the most damning piece of evidence recovered was the classified annex to Durham’s report, which was never released to the public. The declassification process for this annex is now underway, led by a high-level task force involving CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and acting NSA Director William Hartman.
Once declassified, the annex is expected to be transmitted to Senator Grassley’s office for public release. According to sources briefed on the contents, the annex confirms the U.S. intelligence community had foreign sources warning—before the official start of Crossfire Hurricane—that elements within the FBI might attempt to sabotage Trump through false allegations of Russian collusion.
One source with access to the annex said, “While it may not have been exactly clear in the moment what the intelligence collection meant, with the benefit of hindsight, it predicted the FBI’s next move with alarming specificity.”
Another insider said plainly: “The release of this annex will give teeth to the claim that there was a coordinated plan inside the U.S. government to help the Clinton campaign stir up controversy connecting Trump to Russia.”
The classified intelligence reportedly implicates key Obama-era officials including former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Patel’s discovery comes amid ongoing criminal investigations now opened by the FBI into the actions of Brennan and Comey, after former DNI Ratcliffe issued criminal referrals.
“It’s really hard to see how Brennan, Clapper, and Comey are going to be able to explain this away,” one source said, referring to the timing and content of the intelligence.
Patel has already turned over numerous documents to Grassley’s team, who are now reviewing the evidence as part of their broader investigation into corruption and abuse of power within the intelligence community during the 2016 election and transition period.
Kash Patel is no stranger to the Russia investigation. As a senior staffer for then-Rep. Devin Nunes on the House Intelligence Committee, Patel played a central role in uncovering surveillance abuses by the DOJ and FBI. He helped craft the explosive 2018 memo that revealed the Steele dossier—funded by Hillary Clinton’s campaign—was used as the primary basis for a secret FISA warrant against Trump advisor Carter Page.
That memo also revealed that then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe testified under oath that the dossier was essential to the surveillance application. Yet, the FBI failed to inform the court that the document’s origin was opposition research paid for by Trump’s 2016 political rival.
The fallout from these revelations led to multiple investigations, including that of Special Counsel Robert Mueller and later Special Counsel John Durham. While Mueller found no evidence of collusion, Durham went further—concluding the FBI had no legitimate basis to even begin Crossfire Hurricane in the first place.
Patel’s latest discovery inside FBI headquarters suggests that the bureau may have actively tried to hide or destroy evidence that could further discredit its conduct during that time.
Despite the serious implications of these findings, former FBI Directors James Comey and Christopher Wray have not responded to media inquiries. Wray, who led the bureau through much of the public fallout, has been accused by many on the right of stonewalling congressional investigations and withholding documents.
Nunes, now CEO of Trump’s social media company Truth Social, praised Patel’s determination: “Kash was instrumental in unraveling the Russia collusion hoax and finding evidence of government malfeasance despite constant attempts by the FBI and DOJ to stonewall our investigation.”
Nunes added that Patel himself had been targeted by federal surveillance, with the DOJ in 2017 secretly subpoenaing Patel’s personal communications while he was investigating FBI misconduct on behalf of Congress.
“The feds spied on Kash during the probe and ran information warfare against him, but Kash helped expose them anyway,” Nunes said.
As the classified annex inches closer to public release, the political stakes are high. Senate Judiciary Chairman Grassley has made clear that the American people deserve full transparency regarding the FBI’s actions during the 2016 election and aftermath.
This latest revelation could mark a turning point in exposing what many conservatives have called one of the most egregious abuses of government power in modern history.
And with new criminal investigations now targeting senior intelligence officials from the Obama administration, accountability may finally be on the horizon.
While many in the legacy media continue to downplay the findings of the Durham report and ignore Patel’s discoveries, the accumulation of evidence now entering the public record is making that denial harder to sustain.