Posted on 07/30/2025 10:03:01 AM PDT by NoLibZone
FBI Director Kash Patel found thousands of Russia collusion hoax documents in “burn bags” in a secret room at the FBI, Fox News reported.
One of the documents in the burn bags included the classified annex to the John Durham report that includes the underlying intelligence he investigated.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe is expected to declassify the annex to Durham’s final report and send it to Senator Grassley, who will release it to the public.
Fox News also reported that Kash Patel and his team of investigators discovered a “previously undisclosed” SCIF at the FBI headquarters.
Fox News reported:
FBI Director Kash Patel found a trove of sensitive documents related to the origins of the Trump–Russia probe buried in multiple “burn bags” in a secret room inside the bureau, sources told Fox News Digital.
Sources told Fox News Digital that the “burn bag” system is used to destroy documents designated as classified or higher.
Sources told Fox News Digital that multiple burn bags were found and filled with thousands of documents.
Sources told Fox News Digital that one of the documents FBI officials found in a burn bag was the classified annex to former special counsel John Durham’s final report, which includes the underlying intelligence he reviewed.
The declassification of the classified annex is being done in close coordination between CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Patel, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Attorney General Pam Bondi and acting National Security Agency Director William Hartman.
Treat it as a crime scene and collect all the forensic evidence as to who handled it last. Kudos to whoever held it into this administration, unless it survived by pure dumb bureaucratic oversight.
The only surprise is that there are any remaining paper documents around at all. One would have expected all such documents to have been fed to the nearest incinerator or shredder.
Why should that facility have ANY ‘secret rooms’ in the first place? Patel would be wise to arrange for each and every room, closet, corridor, tunnel, storage space to be thoroughly inspected, and by more than one person at a time.
Take the blueprints, and start from there.
Uhh ohh! Looks like someone screwed up. This used to go on at my work all the time with people just assuming the burn bags would be picked up and destroyed. The criminals should have covered their tracks and done the destruction themselves.
I would suggest one of two ‘stories’.
First, could be intentionally left to waste 6 months of time analyzing the reports.
Second, could be the FBI crew who were supposed to draft the hoax material, and as they left for jobs to disappear...they left ‘Marvin’ in charge to burn the material. ‘Marvin’ pondered the situation...eventually deciding to leave the room locked, and the material to be eventually found, un-burned.
The pain I’d see at this point, from a intel analyst standpoint...if you say there are 4,000 pages of material...it could take you four months to piece together the reports, hoax material, facts, etc.
Having ‘cleaned-up’ a SCIF or two in my life...there’s always the last guy left with a crap job.
Hillary Clinton did.
It's always a blessing to have stupid enemies.
Yes, but it would be fun reading though.
Beat me to it. I find it very odd that there are bags of paper documents sitting in a secret closet somewhere. From the JFK assassination? Sure. Lots of paper from 1963 would make sense. But piles of actual paper from the Russia hoax from the first Trump administration? This stuff wasn’t typed out on an IBM Selectric. It was composed in MS Word on a Government Computer and then sent to a government printer. Yup. That’s how you get paper. But why aren’t they talking about the electronic files where it began?
who ever put it there to be found his the hero of the moment.
Why would the proposed FBI building include a crematorium? You can really make people disappear.
Sometimes we would hide our burn bags under the floor. If the burn room was out of order or company was coming we would place them there out of the way to “clean” the up the SCIF.
Maybe it was something like this and they were just forgotten.
I wonder:
1) Do FBI “burn bags” have labels and lines for sign-off/date by whoever ordered the material to be destroyed?
2) Did the FBI have policies and a system for recording the date each particular bag was burned?
I bet the answer to both is YES.
according 5o lawyer Sol Wisenberg if this is the only copy of Durham annex report this could move to criminal investigation/proceedings. apparently Ratcliffe didn’t know about it before this discovery - so was it scrubbed from databases? hmmm..
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“Uhh ohh! Looks like someone screwed up. “
I think they gave the bags to a low level GS-9 to burn the stuff. The GS-9 was smarter than they thought and decided to wait until the new FBI leaders get in.
Having worked in several SCIFs, suggest cause more likely bureaucratic laziness. Easier to stuff your overflowing burn bag into lockable room than carry it to approved receptacle. Then forgotten.
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